Our Strategy & Impact

2025-2030: Draft Strategy & Survey

Over the last 3 years, steered by our Strategy 2022-2025, and with your amazing support, we have achieved a lot for the benefit of the Forest. However, the challenges the Forest faces, from climate change to high levels of pollution, from adjacent development to the biodiversity crisis, mean we need to achieve even more moving forward.

To help focus our activity moving forward the Trustees have developed a new draft strategy 2025-2030, and we would now like your feedback on that draft through this survey.

We would be very grateful if you could give us 5 minutes of your time to complete the survey.

Consultation closing date: 28th Febuary 2025.

Strategy 2025-2030: Draft

Strategy 2025-2030: Survey

Our 2022-2025 Strategy

The 2022-2025 strategy builds on the amazing work of the Epping Forest Centenary Trust and Friends of Epping Forest since the late sixties, and has been shaped by you, our members, through discussions and surveys over the last 2 years. The unprecedented challenges Epping Forest is facing means we need to do more to protect and preserve it; and we need to be able to continue our work to protect it for years to come.

It also means we need to grow our membership, our reach into different audiences, and grow the support for our work from new partners. This has underpinned the development of our new, modern look which we believe reflects the core of our work protecting the Forest, and will enable us to connect with more people who will support our work for years to come.

Our 2022-2025 strategy also comes with a set of Values and Beliefs, as well as a Theory of Change which explains why the actions we are proposing will help us meet our objectives:

Our strategic objectives are:

We will educate and inspire people about Epping Forest
We will do hands-on work to conserve and grow the Forest
We will protect the Forest through research and advocacy

It also sets out that an integral part of our strategy is to work in partnership with the City of London Corporation as Conservators to deliver those objectives, acting as a critical friend when necessary.