Raise: Cumbria Community Forest
Since 2024, Wild Museum has produced and led delivery of public programmes for Raise: Cumbria Community Forest. Raise is a collective of foresters, artists and researchers, working across Cumbria with communities, landowners and regional policymakers. Raise plants woodlands to address the climate crisis, whilst creating social and economic opportunities, and improving health and wellbeing. Raise is a neurodivergent-led organisation actively working with neurodivergent participants, partners and practitioners.
Wild Museum leads the engagement programmes that are central to Raise’s 25-year plan.
Produced by: John Coburn
Artists: Full of Noises, Joanne Coates, Sneha Solanki, Alistair Debling, Dominic Smith
Image from an arts-led consultation into the emerging woodlands at Cummersdale, Carlisle. Led by Sneha Solanki, with Tullie and their Secret Garden group.
We grow Raise partnerships with regional organisations and artists to deliver programmes with communities of priority. This includes neurodivergent Cumbrians and residents who have experienced historical barriers to green spaces.
Activity ranges from creative consultation workshops, to inclusive planting days, to employability schemes.
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Image by Alistair Debling
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Image by Joanne Coates
‘Tree Waves’ by Full of Noises, arts-led consultation with autistic adults in Barrow 2024 ahead of woodland creation in 2025