Sep
07
2020
The Northern Forest Hits 2 Million!
It’s been over two years since the Northern Forest was announced and you may have been wondering how things are progressing...
Mar
20
2020
Northern Forest Update
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...
Mar
20
2020
Gorpley Reservoir Woodland Creation Project – The story so far…
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...
Jul
08
2019
Woodland Outreach in the Northern Forest
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...
Jan
24
2019
Northern Forest …the story so far
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...
Jan
16
2018
Plans unveiled for 50 million tree new Northern Forest
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...