About England’s Community Forests

For nearly thirty years, England’s Community Forests have been working with communities, landowners and businesses to transform the landscapes and communities in and around our largest towns and cities.

England’s Community Forests provide free advice and support to landowners and land managers in each forest area to plan, fund, and plant new woodland. Local experts are available to support woodland creation projects of all sizes in both rural and urban settings.

These fifteen organisations (supported by partners from the public, private and voluntary sectors, and of course, local communities themselves) bring trees and people together to create healthy, inspiring, resilient places for humans and nature to live, side by side.

Through innovation and a long-term commitment to the areas in which they work, the Community Forests have empowered communities to transform their local landscapes. They have enabled communities to adapt to the effects of climate change and even contributed to the mitigation of these effects. They are working to ensure that trees and woodlands are at the very heart of our urban landscapes.

England’s Community Forests provide free advice and support to landowners and land managers in each forest area to plan, fund, and plant new woodland. Local experts are available to support woodland creation projects of all sizes in both rural and urban settings.

Our aims

• Support regeneration and growth – Making towns and cities more attractive places in which to live, work and do business; attracting new investment and creating jobs

• Support local communities – Harnessing the enthusiasm, commitment, and knowledge of local people; helping them improve their local area and enhancing health and wellbeing

• Creating Better Places – Enriching and enhancing biodiversity the environment, creating new facilities for recreation and leisure and making our towns and cities more sustainable