What's New

 

Welcome to the newly refreshed and updated Growing Our Future Delivery Plan 2008-2011

This Delivery Plan reflects the monitoring responses and research carried out indicating what lead partners and stakeholders think should be done with regards to Trees, Woods and Forestry benefiting those living in, working in and visiting the West Midlands. This rolling three-year plan refreshes and updates the 2008-2011 Delivery Plan and has been designed to be reviewed annually, that is to say the next monitoring point is March 2009.
Read the delivery plan (in Word format) here.
Read the delivery plan (in PDF format) here.

Growing our Future, the West Midlands Regional Forestry Framework launched the rolling three year Delivery Plan guiding actions for 2008-2011 at the beginning of July 2008. This set out detailed activities spread across the eleven themes, each with targets and success indicators identified for monitoring performance at twelve monthly intervals.


2008-2009 Annual Report
This, the fifth monitoring exercise since 2004, has been very encouraging with again an excellent
level of responses in geographical and sectoral terms.

 

 

Woodlands and Health Challenge WIG (pilot)
West Midlands Region was the first to pilot the Woodlands and Health Challenge Grant in England in 2004-2005. The pilot project aimed to encourage more people to become active and use local woodlands to help improve their health through exercise, and centred on proposals that linked with the Walking for Health Initiative. The pilot, now complete, was targeted at four areas in the West Midlands that ranked poorly for general health in the National Census 2001.
This Grant is now closed for new applications. Evaluation of this Pilot can be found on the Forest Research web page.