Welcome Blog

Welcome to the first of many blogs from Grizedale.  We’ll use this blog to keep you up to date with what’s going on in the forest, to keep you informed about upcoming events and to offer an insight into the workings of your forest.  After all, Grizedale is a part of the Forestry Commission, an organisation which looks after your forests costing the average taxpayer less than 30 pence per year, not bad we think.

As you may or may not be aware, Grizedale is a unique place holding the title of ‘first forest for sculpture in the UK’ (keep your eye out for plenty of information about the sculpture program) as well as being a working, commercial forest.  We offer educational programmes for students of all ages from reception to A level and manage the forest for walkers and wildlife.  Go Ape describe their course at Grizedale as ‘the jewel in our crown’, we maintain mountain bike routes for riders of all abilities with all things bike (including hire) provide by Grizedale Mountain Bike shop and we host two rallies a year.  If you fancy something a little more relaxing there’s the café in the forest which will also being hosting an art exhibition this summer.  We’ll use these blogs to tell you why and how we manage the forest to provide you with all of these services.

Ultimately, Grizdedale Forest is your forest.  We use money from your taxes, the rent from on site businesses and the money generated from timber production across the Forestry Commission to provide you with the best forest we can.  That’s why we want to know what you like about the forest and how you think we could improve. 

This blog will be updated weekly but for even more information you can follow us on twitter, just search for @FCGrizedale.