Our forests and woods can contribute so much to our nation. We deliver practical programmes to make sure that, as communities and individuals, we can get the most from them.
We are constantly looking for ways to share our knowledge, plan activities and develop new initiatives to provide benefits for the economy and for our health and wellbeing.
We work with a whole range of partners from private sector landowners to sports clubs, local communities to national businesses, on a whole host of recreation, regeneration and educational schemes.
Our responsibilities span research, commercial timber production, sustainability programmes and policy, as well as learning and leisure.
Our goal is always to ensure that, at a practical level, Britain can use its forests to contribute positively to as many of the nation's needs as we can while sustaining this great resource for the future.
The Forestry Commission:
Cares for 827,000 hectares of sustainably managed woods and forests - thats more than 1.4 billion trees
Plants more than 17 million trees every year.
Employs more 3,000 people - most of them in rural areas
Welcomes more than 50 million visitors every year
Provides 2,600 km of cycle trails
Has 55 visitor centres, almost 500 car parks, and 155 easy access trails
Provides 109 forest classrooms or educational facilities
Welcomes more than 100,000 per year to our concerts in the forest
Produces more than 5 million tonnes of timber every year. That is almost 44% of UK wood production or 300 forty-tonne truckloads of timber every day
Maintains 24,000 km of forest roads – seven times the total amount of motorway in Britain. If it were possible to put them together, they would stretch more than halfway around the world.
Maintains more than 2,300 bridges
Helped expand Britain's woodlands by an area more than three times the size of greater London in the last 20 years
