Red Rose Forest is helping to transform a large part of Greater Manchester into a greener, better place to live, work and invest in.

Red Rose Forest is creating new areas of woodland, helping to improve existing green spaces and encouraging thousands of people every year to visit their local park, woodland, nature reserve or community garden - discovering the countryside that is right on their doorstep!

Red Rose Forest is also making a huge impact on the North West region, increasing tree cover, encouraging investment and visitors to the area and playing a vital role in making England's North West a greener, more rewarding place to live, work, visit and do business.

Red Rose Forest is a partnership of The Countryside Agency, the Forestry Commission and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Bolton, Bury, Trafford and Wigan and the Cities of Manchester and Salford.
A wider partnership is actively involved in developing the Forest in many different ways across the Forest area. This partnership includes landowners, businesses, Government agencies, environmental and voluntary bodies, Countryside Services, communities, schools and many individuals.

   
 


Red Rose Forest was established in 1991


Red Rose Forest covers almost 292 square miles of Greater Manchester

Around 1.5 million people live within the Forest boundary (Red Rose Forest is the most urban of all Community Forests)

The  Red Rose Forest Plan is for 40 years and part of the Red Rose Forest mission is to plant 25million trees over that time as the first step towards a full programme of regeneration and renewal of Greater Manchester.

It costs between £7 and £10 to plant a tree in a new woodland scheme

It costs from £300 to plant a street tree in an urban area

Since 1991, Red Rose Forest has planted around 1,183 hectares of woodland

   
 
       
 
 
   
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