The North East Community Forest is a collaborative vision for a greener, healthier future for Newcastle, Gateshead, North and South Tyneside, Sunderland, and Durham. This ambitious initiative unites local authorities and environmental organisations to plant trees, enhance biodiversity, combat climate change, and create a lasting legacy for future generations.

The Raise: Cumbria’s Community Forest is a transformative project reimagining Cumbria’s western coastline. This ambitious initiative creates woodlands, enhances biodiversity, combats climate change, and connects coastal communities with the unique beauty of their natural surroundings.

The Thames Chase Community Forest is a remarkable landscape initiative, actively transforming 40 square miles of the landscape in East London and South West Essex, guided by the Thames Chase Plan. Launched in 1990, the Thames Chase Community Forest now celebrates 30 years of landscape regeneration, transforming the green environment for the 650,000 population living through and around its boundaries.

The Mersey Forest works with a range of landowners in Merseyside and Cheshire, providing independent advice about grants and funding to plant new woodland or to help manage existing woodland in the area. With over 25 years of experience growing a network of woods and greenspaces across the area, The Mersey Forest Team offers solid, no-strings advice, helping landowners every step of the way, from site visits to filling in grant applications.

Announced in June 2021, the Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest will stretch from the heart of the city to the edge of the moor, with an ambition to deliver 1,900 hectares of forest to form a mosaic of different habitats. Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest is seeking interested landowners for planting starting in 2022 within their area, through the Trees for Climate woodland establishment programme.

The Forest of Avon Trust works with partners and landowners across the West of England to plant trees, engage and involve people in their local woodlands and improve the management of existing woodlands. The Forest of Avon Plan: A Tree and Woodland Strategy for the West of England was launched in June 2021 and the Trust is leading on its implementation.

Forest of Mercia is a Community Interest Company and has a long track record of delivering successful environmental projects in Staffordshire and the West Midlands. They have worked in the Forest of Mercia area for 30 years with interested individuals and groups developing the environment.

The Humber Forest (previously HEYwoods) delivers a strategy for trees and woodland in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, to improve the urban, rural and industrial landscapes of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire through the creation of a functional green infrastructure based on trees and woodland. HEYwoods work with government agencies, landowners, private companies, environmental charities, community organisations, and both local authorities.

Now in its 26th year, The Great Western Community Forest is committed bringing local people and organisations together to create a better environment. With the town of Swindon at its heart, the forest covers an area of 39,000 hectares. The Great Western Community Forest offers grants and professional advice to all landowners within their area, through the Trees for Climate woodland establishment programme

By working with a range of organisations, landowners and volunteer groups within the Greenwood area and more widely across Nottinghamshire, Greenwood Community Forest seeks to support and facilitate new woodland establishment, the management of local green spaces, and to champion all the benefits for people, the environment and the local economy that flow from this.

The White Rose Forest team is here to provide free support for landowners and their agents to develop tree planting and woodland creation projects across West and North Yorkshire. We have access to a wide range of funding options for projects of all sizes. Our expert project managers can guide your project from an initial plan or idea, through the White Rose Forest Delivery Pathway to delivery on the ground.

The Forest of Marston Vale is a forest in the making, covering an area of 61 square miles between Bedford and Milton Keynes. For over 20 years the Forest of Marston Vale Trust has been planting trees and engaging communities and the public and private sector in an ambitious vision to deliver landscape scale change and create accessible new woodlands and green spaces.

City of Trees is an innovative and exciting movement that aims to transform the landscape and quality of life for people across Greater Manchester. City of Trees works with a wide range of landowners and can offer a range of grants and support to plant trees and woodlands at any scale across Greater Manchester, both through the Trees for Climate programme, and through other funding streams.

The new Community Forest will build on the Tees Valley Mayor and Tees Valley Combined Authority’s(TVCA’s) existing Trees for Tees programme, which has an ambition to plant one million trees. It will increase and improve green spaces across the area and deliver high quality woodlands with enhanced public access. TVCA’s aim is for the project to deliver health, social and regeneration benefits, in particular through increased tree planting in urban areas.

Derbyshire’s Heartwood Community Forest will be at the heart of England and with a central position between the National Forest and the Greenwood Community Forest in Nottinghamshire. It will provide the missing link in joining up community forests in the surrounding area. It won’t be a single ‘forest’ covering an area, but the collection of many trees, woodlands and hedgerows across the eastern and southern fringes of Derbyshire. The area includes many of the urban settlements of Derbyshire where 77% of the county’s population of 797,000 people live and where better access to woodland is most needed. It is also an area rich in industrial mining heritage that has shaped the current landscape. The Forest will continue to enhance the schemes of physical restoration that are already underway.