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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: 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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    Laura Baker

    Social Scientist
    Society and environment research group (SERG)
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    Bethan Stagg

    Social Scientist
    Society and environment research group (SERG)
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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.
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    Jodie Salter

    Social Scientist
    Society and environment research group (SERG)
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    Social and cultural values of treescapes

    This research project aimed to improve the representation and understanding of the social and cultural values of treescapes in plant health policy. Existing evidence on the social and cultural values of treescapes by publics tends to be limited in scope, for example to recreation, aesthetics, or health values.
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    Jordan Rydlewski

    Social Scientist
    Society and environment research group (SERG)
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    Emma Hinton

    Social Scientist
    Society and environment research group (SERG)
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    Greg Counsell

    Social Scientist
    Society and environment research group (SERG)