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Chapter 3 – Effective interventions<br />

Case study 26<br />

The Green Light Trust<br />

The Green Light Trust is a Suffolk-based charity which works by invitation around the country, helping to<br />

establish community-owned woodlands.<br />

Community groups are <strong>for</strong>med in each participating parish or area, and members of the local community<br />

take part in planting and other events. Provision often includes links to local schools, disabled access and<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mative talks about the woods.<br />

With independence and self-sufficiency as goals, the Trust works with both urban and rural communities<br />

to find land, design, plant and manage their own woodland. The Trust bases all its work on f<strong>our</strong> thematic<br />

cornerstones: children, community spirit, biodiversity and global kinship. It aims to hand on to others the<br />

practical experience gained since starting its paradigm project in Suffolk in 1993.<br />

The Trust currently has 33 rural and urban projects in eight counties, 28 of which are in the East of<br />

England, with a total of 55.9 hectares planted to date.

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