Your Hundred Acre Wood Project
A Step by Step guide
Step
1
Build your Community
Give your project a name and identify a handful of individuals to help you get started.
Establish an informal committee to organise your team
Use local notice boards, social media and contact established community groups to build momentum
Hold informal meetings in coffee shops or community buildings to share ideas and workload
Step
2
Find a site
Establish the scale of the site your are seeking to establish as your Hundred Acre Wood Project.
It doesn’t have to be 100 Acres of course! The programme can work with sites from 10 acres plus and there is of course no upper limit to the size of the project
Open the conversation with Landowners (private and public), Farmers and Real Estate developers to identify possible sites.
Use Estate Agents and Land Agents, Social Media and Local Press to help get the word out.
Identify suitable land for rewilding - and establish whether the land can be purchased, leased (minimum 30 years) or even donated
Step
3
Establish your design ideas
Contact us to commence the feasibility study.
We will share the rewilding design options to enable your community to create a shortlist of the desired features of your Hundred Acre Wood Project
Working together with local experts and our specialist design team, we will create a design Masterplan that meets the requirements of the community and the demands of any legal, regulatory and planning issues
Step
4
Submit your proposal
Working with your community, our team will help you to build your Hundred Acre Wood proposal.
This will include the preparation of the documents required to establish the relevant legal structure for ownership (eg Community Land Trust), the land purchase or lease creation, the governance structure and the financing model for the Project.
Step
5
What happens next?
If your proposal is approved, our team will work with your Community to execute the plan enabling the delivery of your Hundred Acre Wood Project.
Our Programme will establish everything that is needed to ensure the delivery and long term sustainability of your very own Hundred Acre Wood Project.
