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Wednesday, 3rd September 2008

More Funds for Forest Enjoyment: A Successful Year for The National Forest Company

In a challenging year for planting new woodlands, the National Forest Company (NFC) attracted more funds than ever before to enable people to enjoy and experience the Forest, according to the Company’s latest Annual Report for the year to March 2008. “Adversity stimulated inventiveness and innovation,” said Dinah Nichols, NFC Chair. “And through our funding of a wide range of partnership projects the Company levered in over £1.2 million from external public and private sources – the highest ever.”

Wednesday, 1st October 2008

Discover and Explore a Forest in the Making

Moto, the UK's largest provider of Motorway Service Areas, has again teamed up with The National Forest to create a second gateway to this forest in the making. Visitors to Moto’s Tamworth Service Area at Junction 10 of the M42 can discover more about this bold environmental project that spans 200 square miles of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire.

Friday, 26th September 2008

Top Foresters visit The National Forest

Leading foresters from throughout the UK will visit The National Forest next month. The prestigious Institute of Chartered Foresters is bringing its 2008 National Study Tour to the Forest, from 15 – 17 October. The group will visit the National Memorial Arboretum, Swadlincote Woodlands and Calke Abbey: three very different locations which demonstrate contrasting approaches to the contribution trees and woodlands can make to the landscape and to people’s lives.

Wednesday, 24th September 2008

Byrkley Garden Centre - Gateway to a Growing Destination

Visitors to Byrkley Garden Centre will discover more than just plants, trees and shrubs as they browse, but can now explore a ‘forest in the making’. The extensive garden centre has teamed up with the National Forest Company to install facilities with information on the centre and the growing forest.

Tuesday, 16th September 2008

Find Your Way in the Forest with new Ordnance Survey National Forest Map

A new Ordnance Survey map has just been published which charts in full the latest developments in The National Forest, marking the increase in woodland since the previous 2005 edition of the map from 16% to nearly 18% over the 200 square miles of the Forest.

Monday, 8th September 2008

Forest Winners: National Awards for Top National Forest Attractions

Two popular National Forest projects have beaten hundreds of organisations across the UK to take top honours in the 2008 National Lottery Awards. Get Active in the Forest, based at Rosliston Forestry Centre, and the Armed Forces Memorial, both situated in The National Forest at the heart of the Midlands, won two out of the seven categories.

Thursday, 4th September 2008

A Landscape of Reds and Golds Spreading Across The National Forest

Even though the summer was disappointing for many, the National Forest Company is urging people to get out into the woodlands and enjoy nature’s autumn finale. Already the leaves are turning red and gold with their final dazzling display of colour before the bleak winter months set in.

Thursday, 28th August 2008

Record Numbers at the National Forest Wood Fair

Record crowds delighted exhibitors and organisers at the National Forest Wood Fair on Bank Holiday Monday. Over 3,300 people from all over the Midlands flocked to this, the fourth annual Wood Fair, and enjoyed a fine day to celebrate trees, timber and woodland, in the spectacular National Forest setting of Beacon Hill Country Park in Leicestershire.

Tuesday, 26th August 2008

Advantage West Midlands Invests in Destination Forest

Visitors to The National Forest will soon be able to get more from their trip to the Forest thanks to a grant of £250,000, towards a £350,000 project, from Advantage West Midlands (AWM) - the Regional Development Agency for the West Midlands. The National Forest Company has been awarded the funding, to put the Forest destination on the map and ensure visitors make the most of the huge number of things to see and do in the area.

Tuesday, 19th August 2008

Nice day for nature fun!

The National Forest Wood Fair on Bank Holiday Monday will be packed with activities and attractions to keep the whole family entertained.