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Over 50,000 people have engaged with The Mersey Forest in the last decade

Did you know?

Over 50,000 people have engaged with The Mersey Forest in the last decade

Did you know?

Over 50,000 people have engaged with The Mersey Forest in the last decade

Local authorities

85m

Pounds of external funding brought in. We regularly multiply our local authority partner contributions to The Mersey Forest by a factor of six.

10:1

Return on investment in the last ten years. For every £1 invested by local authorities in The Mersey Forest, communities gain £10 of natural and social capital benefits.

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Two-thirds of people now use their local woods to walk, relax and play.

Contact us if you work for one of our local authority partners and want to explore how we can collaborate more.  

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Local authority partners

We are passionate about realising our vision: More with Trees. Acting together to grow and care for trees and woods, as part of a thriving mosaic of habitats in and around Cheshire and Merseyside’s cities, towns and villages. Intertwining cherished trees with people’s lives and livelihoods, flourishing nature, and strengthened climate resilience. Inspiring action and spreading hope for our future.

Our local authority partners are central to our work. Together, we are helping to improve neighbourhoods, address health inequalities, grow our local economy, help nature flourish, and tackle climate change.

Our core local authority partners are Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, and Wirral. Our Steering Group includes an officer and councillor representative from each of these local authorities, who act as a key links to The Mersey Forest. We also work with a wider range of partners.

Our partners Our steering group

Policy support

Our work has a real impact, enriching people’s lives and livelihoods, helping nature flourish, and strengthening climate resilience. This cuts across and delivers on a wide range of local authority and national priorities.

The Mersey Forest Plan is our long-term and strategic guide to the work of our team and partners. It is well embedded into local authority policy, and we are keen to further strengthen and build on this policy support across council services. This will better enable its delivery and help us to collectively realise its vision. We will update this section shortly to include our latest local policy review.

Our Plan

Colliers Moss aerial view

Long-term tree cover ambitions

Our work is guided by mapped long-term tree cover ambitions and “right tree, right place” principles for each local authority area. These can be explored in the Tree Atlas, along with other mapping layers.

These contribute to our long-term ambition of 30% tree cover across our area. They reflect that some landscapes and land uses have fewer constraints to increasing trees and woods than others. However, this is a multi-generational endeavour. Current tree cover stands at 13.7% across Cheshire and Merseyside, and we aim to reach 15% by 2050, pushing beyond this if conditions allow.

Explore our Tree Atlas

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