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 by Joanne Coates as part of the Among the Trees commission. Created at a woodland creation event at Cummersdale, Carlisle, delivered with Team Autism.

We work with Raise to deliver woodland creation 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.

Image by Dominic Smith
Image by Full of Noises
Image By Sneha Solanki
Image by Alistair Debling
Image by Full of Noises
Image by Full of Noises
Image by Dominic Smith
Image by Joanne Coates
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