Max Hislop Email & Phone Number

Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

TreeLink grows, plants and cares for trees and woodlands and speaks up for trees in Stirling Council area.www.treelinkstirling.orgMax developed TreeLink Stirling's "Free Trees for Babies" project which offers free trees to families in the Stirling Council area with pre-school children (or in memory of a lost child) to plant in their garden. The project is sponsored by a locally based company Vivisol.Max also conceived and developed TreeLink Stirling's "Crown of Trees" project which aims to create a contiguous woodland around the City of Stirling and connect four woodland 'jewels in the crown' - Abbey Craig, Balquhidderock Wood, Gillies Hill and Craigforth. The "Crown" will also deliver a 36km walking route taking in the battlefield sites of Bannockburn (1314) and Stirling Bridge (1297) as well as other historical landmarks. Tree planting, woodland management, footpath improvement and interpretation will be part of the delivery of the "Crown". Engagement with landowners and involvement of local communities will be essential.

Greater Glasgow Area

Max developed the Clyde Climate Forest project and secured funding from the Woodland Trust's Emergency Tree Fund and Scottish Forestry which enabled the project to be launched in June 2021 by Glasgow City Region's Cabinet (8 x Council Leaders). He became the Director of the project and managed a small delivery team which aims to facilitate the planting of 18 million trees over a decade in Glasgow City Region. The Clyde Climate Forest is an initiative supported by the region’s eight local authorities, Woodland Trust, Scottish Forestry, The Conservation Volunteers, Trees for Cities and the Green Action Trust.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Max was the Programme Manager for the GCV Green Network Partnership since it was formed in 2007. Max reported to The Partnership Board which was comprised of the eight regional local authorities, FCS, SNH, Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, and SEPA. He managed a small team based in the GCV Strategic Development Planning Authority in central Glasgow. The role of the team is to facilitate and catalyse delivery of the GCV Green Network through strategic and partnership working.

Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian

Manager of research projects on - farm forestry, agroforestry, shelterbelts and social forestry.

One of the first Community Foresters in UK. Lead on woodland creation and management for the community forest with landowners and community groups. Assisted in the development of the first Thames Chase plan.

Oban, Scotland, United Kingdom

Forester overseeing harvesting and forest management delivery in Lorne Forest District through directly employed workforce and contractors.

Msc, Social Research

Dipba, Business Administration

Micfor, Forestry

Ordinary National Diploma, Forestry