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Here at the NHS Forest we are keen to involve staff, patients and the local community in using the green space created at each healthcare site. The Community Land Advisory Service can help sites that need advice on how to make land available for the local community and provide support with any issues that may arise. 

The Community Land Advisory Service is operating across the UK and is able to help through 

Here at the NHS Forest we have been busy recording all the fantastic tree planting that our sites have been doing since the season started back in November 2013. Our tree counter has now  reached 36,000 trees which is a great achievement. Many of the trees recorded were part of our 2@2 on NHS Sustainability Day with nearly 50 sites getting involved in planting and sites such as Lancashire Care and Airedale hospital planting over 300 trees.

A number of new sites joined the NHS Forest this year including:

Lancashire Care have marked this year's NHS Sustainability Day with a series of Sustainability Roadshows to sign up 'Green Champions' at several Trust sites. The roadshows took place on the Sustainability Day itself - March 27th - and were a fantastic success. At the Trust HQ, several people came forward to make green pledges - ranging from composting their tea bags to swapping to an electric car - as well as signing up to be workplace sustainability reps.

At the start of this 2013/14 planting season, South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) has planted 15 trees at 8 of its sites including: Adderbury, Andover, Basingstoke, Kidlington, Portsmouth, Reading, Ringwood and Whitchurch. Organised by their Green Team  coordinator Brian Miller, the trees planted were a mixture of fruit and broadleaf trees with Ambulance staff helping to plant them at each site.