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    Active Forests evaluation: overview

    About Active Forests The Active Forests Programme (‘Active Forests’) aims to create a physical activity habit for life for visitors to the nation’s forests in England. The programme provides engaging, inspirational and motivating physical activity opportunities for new and existing forest visitors.   The key principles of the programme are:  Activities are led by...
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    Active Forests evaluation: Phase 3 ‘Removing Barriers’

    Overview The Active Forests programme (‘Active Forests’) aims to create a physical activity habit for life for visitors to the public forest estate in England.   This page summarises details of the monitoring and evaluation of phase 3 of the Active Forests programme, called ‘Removing Barriers’. This phase runs for three years from...
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    Active Forests evaluation: Phase 2

    Overview The Active Forests programme (‘Active Forests’) aims to create a physical activity habit for life for visitors to the public forest estate in England.   This page summarises details of the monitoring and evaluation of phase 2 of the Active Forests programme, which ran for five years from 2017-2022 across 18 sites,...
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    Active Forests evaluation: Phase 1 (pilot phase)

    Overview During the pilot phase, the Active Forests programme (‘Active Forests’) aimed to create a sporting habit for life for visitors to the public forest estate in England. This page summarises details of the monitoring and evaluation of phase 1 – the pilot phase – of the Active Forests programme, which ran...
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    Active Forests evaluation: social prescribing pilot

    Overview The Active Forests programme (‘Active Forests’) aims to create a physical activity habit for life for visitors to the public forest estate in England.   This page summarises details of the monitoring and evaluation undertaken for the Active Forests social prescribing pilot. This aimed to address barriers to participation in forest-based activities,...
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    Defra Group Personal Biosecurity Behaviours: Evaluation of Biosecurity Training

    Lead Author: Clare Hall
    The Defra Group Personal Biosecurity Behaviours (DGPBB) project aims to provide personal biosecurity guidance and training across relevant Defra group organisations. Forest Research have conducted an evaluation of the training delivered so far, through an online questionnaire before and after the training, and in-depth interviews. Results, as presented in this report, reveal positive changes in […]
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    Active engagement with trees, woods and forests: A review of the literature

    Lead Author: George Murrell
    Policymakers across Great Britain want to know how to encourage more people to get involved in volunteering activities such as tree planting, citizen science and community woodland management.  This review has investigated the motivations and barriers that are relevant to different groups of people when seeking to engage in volunteering activities connected to trees, woods […]
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    Murrell, G et al 2024 Motivations and barriers to active engagement final

    Murrell, G et al 2024 Motivations and barriers to active engagement final
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    Murrell, G et al. 2024 Motivations and barriers to active engagement

    Murrell, G et al. 2024 Motivations and barriers to active engagement
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    Understanding and mapping the socio-cultural benefits of forest recreation

    Trees, woods, and forests provide multiple benefits to society, including those of social and cultural value. This research outlines a scoping study which sought to identify and test methods for spatially mapping and surveying the recreation attitudes and behaviours of people living in an area around Cannock Chase National Landscape.