Meeting Targets highlights the work of Woodland Initiatives in England, explains the diversity of their work and illustrates how their partnership work and experience has delivered a wide variety of outputs over a number of years. Initiatives are well positioned to meet future targets regionally, sub-regionally and nationally supporting the economy, social agendas and helping to reduce the effects of climate change.

The booklet is available as a .pdf and in hard copy from the Woodland Initiatives Coordinator, please order by email to angelapollard@smallwoods.org.uk.

This evaluation of the network was conducted in 2005.

This is the Executive Summary of the 2005 evaluation of the Woodland Initiatives Network.

Conference report from the 2008 conference at Madingley Hall, Cambridge.

The Silvanus Trust, in partnership with others in the South West region of England, has successfully secured funding from the BIG Lottery Fund Research programme to look at “Social cohesion and well-being deriving from woodland activities”. This is a press release relating to the project.

The Wye Wood Project began in spring 2003, as a partnership initiative developed by the
Herefordshire Sustain Project, a project hosted by Small Woods under two of its ambitions:
- Health and Well-being - to encourage better, more frequent use of woodland.
- Community and Education - Developing social forestry initiatives encouraging healthier
lifestyles.
The project team work with a number of groups including probation, mental health and NEETs and have developed a Social Enterprise

This evaluation assesses
• how well the project had responded to recommendations from the 2006 report
• Where and to whom project activity should be aimed
• How to embed activity into local provision
• Establish recommendations to take the project to its next phase.

A final report on the Special Trees and Woods Project in the Chilterns, funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund.