In the Northern Forest, we're working in partnership with Yorkshire Water and the National Trust as part of a pilot project for the White Rose Forest’s Landscapes for Water programme. The objective on this site at Gorpley reservoir near Todmorden is to delivery 63.2 hectares...
For this episode, Adam Shaw joins City of Trees’ Jess Thompson and Gemma Wren of the National Trust at Smithills for an introduction to the Northern Forest. During their walk, they discuss how they’re involved, what the project means for the North and why our...
It’s been over two years since the Northern Forest was announced and you may have been wondering how things are progressing...
The Northern Forest has been a priority for the Woodland Trust now for 2 seasons with huge targets to hit via our MOREwoods projects. As of last week, the number of trees planted within the Northern Forest through MOREwoods was 103,000 trees – An unbelievably...
For a number of years The Woodland Trust has been working in partnership with Yorkshire Water and the National Trust to develop proposals for woodland creation on land owned by the partners across West Yorkshire under the auspices of The White Rose Forest’s Landscapes for...
I joined the Northern Outreach team in November 2018 as an Outreach Adviser for the Northern Forest, having been at the Trust for 3 years. It is pretty much my dream job – getting to work and live in the north, explore the wide ranging...
Our planning and delivery of the Northern Forest is moving forward almost a year since it was first announced. We’ve finally got the contract with Defra signed, which took a considerable amount of work by the team led by Darren Moorcroft Director of Estate & Outreach...
We're thrilled to announce that together with The Community Forest Trust, we plan to create an exciting new Northern Forest that will comprise over 50 million trees over 25 years. It will stretch from Liverpool across to Hull with the M62 as its spine. This ambitious...