Supporters of Active Woods

 

"We too often think of our health as being about health checks, medicines and seeing health professionals."

"The truth is that it has much more to do with our environment, both natural and social.  The countryside in general - including woods and forests - represents the nation's most valuable health resource of all."

"It offers all those things that we know to be important for good health - fresh air, physical exercise, physical beauty and socialising out of doors can all be physical, mental and spiritual healers."

"NHS Alliance is committed to local communities and empowering local people and frontline clinicians to improve their health.  The Active Woods campaign is an important example of how we might do this both in terms of improving personal health and improving our local networks and communities."

"Encouraging exercise early in life is vital for a child’s heart health as he or she grows up. Sadly, at the moment only around one in three children in England between ages five-eighteen are active for even the recommended minimum hour a day."

"Getting active for an hour a day in childhood is the best way to protect the heart health of future generations and can help keep the rest of the family healthy too."

"It is important that exercise becomes a natural part of growing up - this campaign is a great way to get involved in all the fun opportunities the natural surroundings of the UK’s woodlands have to offer."

"The Community Forests are radically changing landscapes and modern-day town and city life, screening urbanisation in a veil of trees and lush greenery, softening the hard edges of contemporary development and breathing new life into tired neglected land."

"The Woodland Trust believes that woodland plays a valuable and underrated role in enhancing the quality of all our lives."