Restoring neglected land for community benefit requires collaboration. We are always looking for partners who share our purpose — and who have something to contribute to making it happen.
Do you own land that has become difficult to manage, is lying unused, or is costing you more than it returns? We would like to explore whether a partnership with National Woodlands could create community benefit from your land while relieving the burden of management.
We are open to purchase, long-term lease, licence arrangements, or co-management depending on the site and circumstances. We will never waste your time with proposals that do not make sense for you.
Talk to us about your landWe work with local authorities, parish councils, public bodies and land trusts who are managing green space, looking to transfer assets, or who need support with community land projects.
We can assist with community asset transfers, green space restoration, volunteer programme development, and building the community connection that makes public green space sustainable long-term.
Council and public body enquiriesNational Woodlands welcomes conversations with funders at all scales — from community foundations and local trusts to national environmental funders and statutory grant programmes.
Our work spans woodland creation, habitat restoration, community access, education, wellbeing, heritage and community development — we can frame projects within a range of funding priorities.
Funder and grant enquiriesWe work with ecologists, foresters, heritage specialists, landscape architects, community development workers, outdoor educators and other specialists on a project and retained basis.
If you have expertise relevant to our work and are interested in being involved with National Woodlands projects, please get in touch to discuss how we might work together.
Professional enquiriesOur most important partners are the communities that live near the land we restore. Everything we do is built around the proposition that community connection is what protects woodland and green space for the long term.
We involve communities from the earliest stages of a site project: gathering local knowledge, consulting on what access and use would look like, recruiting volunteers, building education programmes and establishing community stewardship arrangements.
If you are a community group, residents' association, school, faith group, sports club or other local organisation and you are interested in how National Woodlands could support your community's relationship with local green space, we would be glad to hear from you.
Community enquiries
Whether you have land, funding, expertise, community knowledge or just a hunch about a place that could be better — we would love to talk.
