Welcome

The NHS Forest is a project coordinated by the charity, the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. Funded by charitable trusts, corporate and individual sponsorship, the project’s central aims are to:

• improve the health and wellbeing of staff, patients 
  and communities through increasing access to green space on or near to NHS land
• encourage greater social cohesion between NHS sites and the local communities around them
• spark projects that bring together professionals and volunteers to use new and existing woodland for art, food crops, reflective or exercise spaces and to encourage biodiversity
• highlight innovative ideas to encourage the use of green space for therapeutic purposes 

Find out more about the NHS Forest in our video