At the seven-year mark, over 10 million trees have been established between Liverpool and Hull, covering Merseyside, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and the Humber, Lancashire, and parts of Cumbria, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. Created together by the Woodland Trust, the Community Forest Trust and four Community Forests in the north of England – The Mersey Forest, City of Trees (Greater Manchester), the White Rose Forest and Humber Forest.

The programme’s impact has been significant. And this report was created to celebrate these achievements. It was printed as a booklet for outreach at the 2025 Party Conferences, to engage the current and future governments in the critical importance of continuing to support the Northern Forest to deliver more jobs, better health, nature recovery and greater climate resilience in the North.

Our 20+ years of experience working in forestry and policy communications, as well as our connections to the Northern Forest, shines through the writing of the report. And thanks to impact data from Liverpool John Moores University, the report was written to emphasise the increasing return on investment that the Forest has generated, and continues to generate, since its launch.

To ensure that it was a light and engaging read, we wrote the report with the design in mind to allow space for the booklet to breathe. It focuses attention on the impact - with infographics, photography from the Community Forests and illustrated graphics.

We offered full service project management throughout the process of creating the report - liaising directly with all the partners and wider stakeholders to feed into the content and design.