Businesses thrive in the nation's forests
Forestry England have a diverse range of recreation businesses operating in the nation's forests. From cafes to ice cream and burger mobile catering, gift shops to bike hire and Segways. Team building activities, external training courses and paintballing to seasonal business such as Christmas tree sales. The variety and quality of the businesses we work with help to make the nation's forests special places to visit.
Explore current opportunities below or get in touch to propose something new.
Current Opportunities
Please see details below:
Concession Opportunity - Haughmond Hill Café
Forestry England are seeking tenders from operators wishing to provide a cafe concession at our Haughmond Hill site in Shropshire.
Closing date for tenders is 12pm on Friday 1st November 2024. Please visit this link for further information and to respond to the opportunity.
Concession Opportunity - Cardinham Woods Café
Forestry England are seeking expressions of interest in a future opportunity for the Concession Lease of Cardinham Woods Café
This is located on the outskirts of Bodmin, Cornwall, Cardinham Woods. Forestry England attracts in the region of 250,000 visits annually with the café serving an important part of the visitor offer. Visitors include young families, keen walkers & mountain bikers and those seeking a relaxed day out. The site hosts four waymarked walking trails, the ‘Bodmin Beast’ mountain bike trail, a small play area and opportunities to picnic by the stream. Currently we anticipate the lease period being 7 years in duration, the lease Heads of Terms will be available in the tender documents which we expect to be published winter/spring 2025. The total estimated turnover value of the Cardinham cafe lease opportunity over the term will be in the region of £2million. We expect the lease to commence in November 2025.
Expressions of interest should be submitted to sam.harris@forestryengland.uk by 31st January 2025.
Expressions of interest are invited for commercial marketing partnerships
We are continually looking for commercial marketing partnerships and sponsorship that meet our marketing objectives.
We have a range of events that can be sponsored and we are happy to talk to companies and organisations about innovative ways to explain who we are and what we do and promote our sites to their customers.
Our objectives are:
- Inform people about our work
- Raise awareness of our sites, events, activities and membership
- Raise awareness of the importance of trees, woods and forests
We have recently worked with companies to promote our forest and activities via their websites and apps. We would be interested in hearing about other similar opportunities.
Expressions of interest in this work can be made at any time by contacting marketing@forestryengland.uk
