The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare coordinates the NHS Forest.

THE STEERING GROUP
 
Steering Group meetings are held at least twice a year
There are informal groups that meet on food crops and woodfuel and there is a London regional group.

The Chair of the Steering Group is: Rachel Stancliffe

Steering Group Members:

Yvonne Hunt, BTCV, Simon West, The Forestry Commission, Rachel Penny, Natural England, Nick Thomas, OxTreeGen, Jeff Burley, Forestry Oxford University, Ed Macalister-Smith Interim CEO NHS Banes and Wilts Cluster, Mark Summers, Head of NHSCIOS Low Carbon Programme, Andrew Haining, E-Forests, Sharon Hosegood, Arboriculturalist and Representative of NHS Forest at Broomfield Hospital, Paul Nolan, Community Forest, Rachel Stancliffe, Sarah Dandy, Jacqueline Cutting, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

The NHS Forest is a project developed and sustained by a broad collaboration of many partners from environment and health. The governance of the project is by the Steering Group and the project is coordinated by the charity, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

There are informal groups that meet on food crops and woodfuel and there is a London regional group.

SPONSORS
We are very grateful to The Forestry Commission (FC) and Natural England for their generous sponsorship of the pilot phase. Individual sites will receive financial support from various funding sources and these local sources can, of course, also donate to the central funding, as is the case with the Rowse Trust, working with Falmouth Community Hospital.
 
SUPPORT
There are many forms of support apart from financial, and many NHS sites, and other organisations have already offered their support to us in terms of time and interest in partnering on funding bids, offering land or trees or ideas. We have received, and continue to enjoy, huge help from Martin Boiling, a volunteer who came to the project via the Woodland Trust, and we welcome further volunteers to help us centrally.
 
DELIVERY PARTNERS
While there is a long, and growing, list of project partners, all of whom we hope to engage in the NHS Forest over the years, the main delivery partners to date have been The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers who have also worked closely with us to develop the Guidance Pack and OxTreeGen who are running our Tree Sponsorship Scheme.

But our role at the centre is only a very small part of the Forest.  It is the healthcare sites all around the country, with existing and new partner organisations and inspired ideas for transforming their grounds which will make The NHS Forest such a success.  From a tiny urban plot to extensive rural areas, every healthcare organisation can be involved.