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Greater Manchester gets active with Forest Festival!

Red Rose Forest, Greater Manchester’s Community Forest is excited to announce this year’s FOREST FEVER festival – a fortnight of events beginning on 26th July until 10th August, which provides a wide range of events for the whole family to get involved with, all for free, in their local environment.

Forest Fever has been running for 6 years – providing hundreds of events and activities that will appeal to anyone who is eager to do something different, especially with the children this summer, as many of the events will keep kids occupied in a healthy, safe and organised way.

Forest Fever is a festival which promotes the many events that Red Rose Forest partners, from Local Authority services to charities, countryside services and volunteers at the beginning of the school summer holidays, to get more people out and using their local environments for healthy activity. This year’s Forest Fever has more than 50 events, taking place in Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Wigan, ranging from art and craft days to taster sessions of orienteering or fishing, night time bat watches and treasure hunts.

Anyone who gets involved in a Forest Fever event will receive a ‘Fever Passport’ – with a chance to log every activity for a permanent memento. A special Forest Fever photo competition has also been set up, and anyone sending pictures of themselves at a Forest Fever event will have them published in the next Red Rose Forest newsletter and on the Forest Fever website.

Anyone who would like to know more about Forest Fever or find out what is going on it their area should go to www.redroseforest.co.uk/forestfever or ring 0161 872 1660 to be sent a free leaflet of events.

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Notes to Editor

Red Rose Forest is an environmental regeneration initiative in Greater Manchester and is one of 12 Community Forests being developed in England. We are a partnership of The Countryside Agency, the Forestry Commission and six Greater Manchester local authorities. The Red Rose Forest partnership is planting over 25 million trees across 292 square miles of the area, as part of a 40-year programme that will make Greater Manchester a greener and more satisfying place to live and work. At the heart of our strategy is the involvement of local communities in the environmental, social and economic regeneration of the area.