Our 2025-2030 Strategy
Over the last three years, steered by our Strategy 2022-2025, and with amazing support from our members, supporters and partners, we have achieved a lot for the benefit of the Forest. However, the challenges the Forest faces, from climate change to high levels of adjacent development, mean that there is a lot more we need to do.
It is essential that we protect and preserve the Forest not just for our current enjoyment, but also for the health and well-being of the Epping Forest community for generations of people to come.
Below, please see messages from James Harrington, our Chair, and Rosie Perry-Gosling, our Vice Chair, about launching our 2025-2030 Strategy in May 2025.
Highlights of our 2025-2030 Strategy
1. We will invest more in policy and campaigning work
The 2025-2030 strategy has been shaped by our members, supporters and partners through various meetings and our formal consultation in late 2024 and early 2025. It aims to invest more in our policy, advocacy and campaigning work to better defend the Forest from the threats it faces.
2. Our mission, vision and values remain the same, and underpin our approach to all our work
Our mission: To protect, conserve, grow and celebrate the Forest’s biodiversity, heritage and culture, and engage, educate and inspire other people to do the same.
Our vision: A thriving Forest, rich in biodiversity, heritage and culture; enjoyed and conserved now and for generations to come.
Our values are: inclusive, collaborative, trustworthy and sustainable.
3. We have set out four ambitious goals for the next 5 years around our three Strategic Objectives:
- Educate & inspire: we will educate and inspire people about the Forest
- Conserve & grow: we will do hands-on work to conserve and grow the Forest
- Protect: we will protect the Forest through engagement, advocacy and campaigning.
By 2030, we will:
- [Across all three strategic objectives] Reach an audience of 50,000 people each year
- [Educate & inspire] Have at least 1,000 attendees for our walks each year
- [Conserve & grow] Have delivered 5,000 hours of volunteering activity each year to conserve the Forest
- [Protect] Have over 1,200 individual members
Messages from Trustees and Partners
Francis Castro, Trustee and London Natural Recovery Project Lead
Cllr Grace Williams, Leader of London Borough of Waltham Forest
Find out more
Our impact
View our 2024-2025 impact report, as well as highlights of the impact 2022-2025.
Annual reports and accounts
View our annual reports and accounts since 2018, and impact reports throughout the years
2022-2025 strategy
Our previous three year strategy that steered us to where we are now.