Legacy forests
We’d love you to be a part of our amazing 2022 acres of forests for the Commonwealth Games
As Birmingham 2022’s Official Nature and Carbon Neutral Supporter, we’re creating a Commonwealth Games legacy forest that will celebrate 2022, the year of the Games, and leave a lasting legacy of environmental and social sustainability for a greener West Midlands and the region.
Our environmental commitments make us a great partner, helping offset the carbon dioxide generated by the Commonwealth Games.
We hope these forests will give more access to green spaces for everyone across our region. The forests we create will help us with our goal of planting 1.3million trees and improving nature across all our region, as well as offsetting carbon produced by the Games.
Tiny Forests
We'll also create 72 Tiny Forests in urban areas across the West Midlands.
Each Tiny Forest (which is the size of a tennis court) will link to one of the nations and territories competing at the Games.
We are looking for schools and communities to host a Tiny Forest and create amazing green urban spaces.
Contributing your land to the legacy forest
We want to begin creating the forest before the Games open in summer 2022. To plant the trees for these forests, we need help from landowners to make suitable land available.
We’re not looking to buy the land, we’re simply looking for people who would like to contribute or donate their land. Or, for a Tiny Forest host the forest on your school site or community space.
If you’d like to contribute some of your land to become part of the Commonwealth forest, simply fill in your details and a member of our Forest Delivery Team will contact you within 72 hours of registering to chat about how we can work together.