The new voice of the UK Wood Fuel and Heating sector

We are proud to launch the Wood Fuel and Heating Association (WFHA) which will represent organisations across the sector, including wood chip, log and wood pellet suppliers, system installers and maintenance companies, distributors, compliance and sector specialists, who together provide sustainable heating solutions to homes, businesses and communities across the UK, and ensure their interests are powerfully advocated across government, policy, regulation and effectively represented in the media.

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WHY WE EXIST

An established sector that needs representation

An established sector that needs representation

Wood fuel heating provides sustainable, low-cost, low-carbon renewable heat to homes, businesses, and industries across the UK, supporting jobs, forestry, and rural economies. Our sector includes wood pellet, waste wood and wood chip suppliers, biomass boiler distribution, service installation and maintenance, and compliance specialists, yet has lacked a vocal, consistent, unified sector voice to champion our mutual interests.

As policy and regulation increasingly shape the future of heating, effective representation is essential. WFHA now exists to ensure the wood heat sector, and everyone working within it, has a voice.

Our mission: To unite and promote the UK wood heating and fuel community to raise standards, build confidence, and protect members’ interests.
 The WFHA will robustly challenge false narratives and lazy assumptions and demonstrate that sustainable wood heating delivers real benefits for customers, communities, and the UK’s decarbonisation goals, and should be a leading technology in the decarbonisation matrix. By encouraging best practice, forging alliances with forestry, timber and adjacent industries, and supporting members with updates and insights, will strengthen both the industry and the people and places who rely upon it for affordable, resilient, low‑carbon heat.

OUR PURPOSE

We represent, protect, and support the Wood Fuel and Heating sector

We represent, protect, and support the Wood Fuel and Heating sector

  • Represent the sector in policy and regulatory discussions

  • Represent the sector in policy and regulatory discussions

  • Represent the sector in policy and regulatory discussions

  • Protect our members’ interests

  • Protect our members’ interests

  • Protect our members’ interests

  • Support high standards and best practices across the supply chain

  • Support high standards and best practices across the supply chain

  • Support high standards and best practices across the supply chain

  • Promote understanding of sustainable wood heating

  • Promote understanding of sustainable wood heating

  • Promote understanding of sustainable wood heating

  • Challenge inaccurate reporting of our sector

  • Challenge inaccurate reporting of our sector

  • Challenge inaccurate reporting of our sector

  • Demonstrate that wood fuels provide a very high degree of national fuel security

  • Demonstrate that wood fuels provide a very high degree of national fuel security

  • Demonstrate that wood fuels provide a very high degree of national fuel security

  • Bring members together to share knowledge and strengthen the industry

  • Bring members together to share knowledge and strengthen the industry

  • Bring members together to share knowledge and strengthen the industry

  • Support the long-term development of sustainable markets for low-carbon Wood Fuel and Heating

  • Support the long-term development of sustainable markets for low-carbon Wood Fuel and Heating

  • Support the long-term development of sustainable markets for low-carbon Wood Fuel and Heating

Our work ensures decisions affecting the sector will be informed by credible and competent industry expertise, supported by the experience and excellence of our members who have installed thousands of high-class biomass systems.

WHAT WE WILL DO

Representation, coordination, and leadership

Representation, coordination, and leadership

Policy and regulatory engagement
Advocacy
Industry coordination
Standards and good practice

POLICY PRIORITIES

We represent members’ interests across key areas

We represent members’ interests across key areas

Air quality and emissions policy

Air quality and emissions policy

Renewable heat and energy policy

Renewable heat and energy policy

Sustainability and fuel standards

Sustainability and fuel standards

The future role of sustainable wood heating in the UK

Encouraging the adoption of the highest standards of biomass boiler technology

Training, skills and job creation

The future role of sustainable wood heating in the UK

Encouraging the adoption of the highest standards of biomass boiler technology

Training, skills and job creation

The future role of sustainable wood heating in the UK

Encouraging the adoption of the highest standards of biomass boiler technology

Training, skills and job creation

“The WFHA ensures the Wood Fuel and Heating sector has a clear, informed, and powerful voice for government policy, energy security, and the ongoing instability of fossil fuel prices”

“The WFHA ensures the Wood Fuel and Heating sector has a clear, informed, and powerful voice for government policy, energy security, and the ongoing instability of fossil fuel prices”

Terence McCracken

Chair, Wood Fuel and Heating Association

“The WFHA ensures the Wood Fuel and Heating sector has a clear, informed, and powerful voice at a critical time given the ongoing instability of fossil fuels”

Terence McCraken

Chair, Wood Fuel and Heating Association

OUR BOARD

The Association is governed by a Board drawn from experts across the sector, providing independent and informed leadership

Terence McCracken

Chairman - WFHA

Innasol

Sales Director, UK & Ireland

Terence McCracken

Chairman - WFHA

Innasol

Sales Director, UK & Ireland

Mark Lebus

Vice Chairman - WFHA

LC Energy

CEO

Mark Lebus

Vice Chairman - WFHA

LC Energy

CEO

Julian Morgan-Jones

Treasurer - WFHA

South East Wood Fuels

Managing Director

Julian Morgan-Jones

Treasurer - WFHA

South East Wood Fuels

Managing Director

Terence McCracken

Chairman - WFHA

Innasol

Sales Director, UK & Ireland

Mark Lebus

Vice Chairman - WFHA

LC Energy

CEO

Julian Morgan-Jones

Treasurer - WFHA

South East Wood Fuels

Managing Director

Bruno Berardelli

Board Member - WFHA

Amp Clean Energy

Group Chief Operating Officer

Bruno Berardelli

Board Member - WFHA

Amp Clean Energy

Group Chief Operating Officer

Richard Dalley

Board Member - WFHA

DC2 Engineering and Freedom Green Energy

Director

Richard Dalley

Board Member - WFHA

DC2 Engineering and Freedom Green Energy

Director

Mike Ingoldby

FICFor. CEnv.

Board Member - WFHA

Bowland Bioenergy

Founder

Mike Ingoldby

FICFor. CEnv.

Board Member - WFHA

Bowland Bioenergy

Founder

Mick Johnson

Board Member - WFHA

Talbott's Biomass Energy Systems

Managing Director

Mick Johnson

Board Member - WFHA

Talbott's Biomass Energy Systems

Managing Director

OUR MEMBERS

We will represent organisations across the full breadth of the UK Wood Fuel and Heating sector:

We will represent organisations across the full breadth of the UK Wood Fuel and Heating sector:

Wood Fuel producers and suppliers, and the distribution supply chain

Wood Fuel producers and suppliers, and the distribution supply chain

Wood Fuel producers and suppliers, and the distribution supply chain

Boiler and appliance manufacturers

Boiler and appliance manufacturers

Boiler and appliance manufacturers

Installers, engineers, and maintenance providers

Installers, engineers, and maintenance providers

Installers, engineers, and maintenance providers

Equipment suppliers

Equipment suppliers

Equipment suppliers

Forestry and landowners

Forestry and landowners

Forestry and landowners

Commercial and industrial heat users

Commercial and industrial heat users

Commercial and industrial heat users

Professional and advisory organisations

Professional and advisory organisations

WHY JOIN

Ensure your organisation has a voice

Ensure your organisation has a voice

Policy and regulation continue to shape the future of the sector. Membership ensures your organisation is part of those discussions.

Members benefit from:

  • Representation in government and regulatory engagement

  • The ability to contribute to industry positions

  • Early awareness of policy and regulatory developments

  • Connection with organisations across the sector

  • Connection with organisations across the sector

  • Recognition as part of the professional industry

  • Recognition as part of the professional industry

The WFHA will seek to establish 3 forums within its structures to provide the most effective representation and a well-informed board:

The wood fuel supply chain will give a voice to all those involved in the production and distribution of wood chip, wood pellets and dried logs, a key part of the low-carbon heating mix, and crucially almost entirely produced in the UK

Biomass boiler distributors, installers, and service and maintenance businesses, focusing on the highest standards, alongside training and skills

Compliance and governance, specifically promoting a better relationship with OFGEM and other statutory bodies who impact our sector

The WFHA will seek to establish 3 forums within its structures to provide the most effective representation and a well-informed board:

The wood fuel supply chain will give a voice to all those involved in the production and distribution of wood chip, wood pellets and dried logs, a key part of the low-carbon heating mix, and crucially almost entirely produced in the UK

Biomass boiler distributors, installers, and service and maintenance businesses, focusing on the highest standards, alongside training and skills

Compliance and governance, specifically promoting a better relationship with OFGEM and other statutory bodies who impact our sector

Furthermore, the Board will appoint a Communications Committee which will respond promptly to negative and incorrect portrayal of our industry and promote powerful, accurate and well informed messaging.

Furthermore, the Board will appoint a Communications Committee which will respond promptly to negative and incorrect portrayal of our industry and promote powerful, accurate and well informed messaging.

The wood fuel supply chain will give a voice to all those involved in the production and distribution of wood chip, wood pellets and dried logs, a key part of the low-carbon heating mix, and crucially almost entirely produced in the UK

Biomass boiler distributors, installers, and service and maintenance businesses, focusing on the highest standards, alongside training and skills

Compliance and governance, specifically promoting a better relationship with OFGEM and other statutory bodies who impact our sector

The WFHA will seek to establish 3 forums within its structures to provide the most effective representation and a well-informed board:

Full members

Organisations directly involved in fuel supply, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and operation.

Help shape the future of the sector

Join the organisation representing the UK Wood Fuel and Heating sector.

Become a member

Help shape the future of the sector

Join the organisation representing the UK Wood Fuel and Heating sector.

Become a member

Help shape the future of the sector

Join the organisation representing the UK Wood Fuel and Heating sector.

Become a member