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"We are already working with a very broad spread of partners on the NHS Forest from The Forestry Commission, through Wildlife Trusts and commercial sponsors to CABE. If you are part of an organisation - in whatever sector - and you would like to work with us on the NHS Forest, please get in touch. We welcome support in delivery at sites on the ground, volunteers seconded to us centrally or working locally and any suggestions of sponsorship or other forms of funding. We have set up a Steering Group which helps to shape and direct the work of the NHS Forest."

a partner for the Transition Network ?

The majority opinion of the scientific community is that, as a culture, we cannot continue to live the way we do. To thrive in the future means to live in a different way than we have in the recent past. If this is what we want, we need to prepare ... together. Two of the most important issues are our dependency upon oil, and the changing climate, both of which urge us towards greater local stability and reslience. To make the changes in our communal and individual lives requires a fundmanental shift, and the purpose of this site is to focus upon making such a transition in the Forest of Dean. The hope is that we in the Forest of Dean can prepare for the transition before it is forced upon us - to dismantle rather than deal with collapse, to construct rather than to throw together in panic. This is the motivation. With discussion and energy we can achieve common goals. Please join in the discussion, and we will attempt to chart our progress through this site.

An urban Meadow that we want to protect and grow into a healing garden, an orchard, an edible forest garden - to feed, heal and to educate.

"Eling Tide Mill\n\nVISIT ONE OF THE ONLY TIDE MILLS IN THE WORLD PRODUCING FLOUR DAILY IN A 900 YEAR OLD TRADITION\n\nEling Tide Mill is a water mill that harnesses the power of the tide to grind wheat into wholemeal flour. \n\nSituated on the edge of Southampton Water beside the renowned New Forest, there has been a mill on the site for over 900 years.\n\nIt was abandoned in the 1940s, but had the good fortune to survive until it was restored between 1975 and 1980, at which time it re-opened as both a working mill, and a museum to this part of our industrial heritage. It is the one of the only fully working and productive tide mill in the United Kingdom producing flour as it had throughout the last Millennium and one of only a handful of mills in the entire world producing flour on a regular basis."

Supporting community-led responses to peak oil and climate change, building resilience and happiness