The NHS Forest is a project developed and sustained by a broad collaboration of many partners from environment and health. The governance of the project is by the Steering Group and the project is coordinated by the charity, The Campaign for Greener Healthcare.

THE STEERING GROUP
The chair of the Steering Group is Roger French, a senior manager in the NHS.
Yvonne Hunt, BTCV
Marcus Sangster, The Forestry Commission
Stella Goddard, Natural England
Hilary Allison and Diane Millis, The Woodland Trust
David Pencheon, The NHS Sustainable Development Unit
Sir Muir Gray, Public Health Advisor, NHS 
Damien Basher, Department of Health
Liz O’Brien, Forest Research
Angela Pollard, The Small Woods Association
Paul Nolan, Community Forests
Rachel Stancliffe and Jacqueline Cutting, The Campaign for Greener Healthcare
 
Steering Group meetings are held at least twice a year
There are informal groups that meet on food crops and woodfuel and there is a London regional group.

SPONSORS
We are very grateful to The Forestry Commission (FC) and Natural England for their generous sponsorship of the pilot phase. Individual sites will receive financial support from various funding sources and these local sources can, of course, also donate to the central funding, as is the case with the Rowse Trust, working with Falmouth Community Hospital.
 
SUPPORT
There are many forms of support apart from financial, and many NHS sites, and other organisations have already offered their support to us in terms of time and interest in partnering on funding bids, offering land or trees or ideas. We have received, and continue to enjoy, huge help from Martin Boiling, a volunteer who came to the project via the Woodland Trust, and we welcome further volunteers to help us centrally.
 
DELIVERY PARTNERS
While there is a long, and growing, list of project partners, all of whom we hope to engage in the NHS Forest over the years, the main delivery partners to date have been The Woodland Trust and the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers who have also worked closely with us to develop the Guidance Pack.
But our role at the centre is only a very small part of the Forest.  It is the healthcare sites all around the country, with existing and new partner organisations and inspired ideas for transforming their grounds which will make The NHS Forest such a success.  From a tiny urban plot to extensive rural areas, every healthcare organisation can be involved.