Frequently Asked Questions

Don’t worry about not having the previous password, this is a new website and we are therefore asking everyone to set a new password using their organisation’s user ID. This ID number is unique to your organisation and can be found in the email and reminder we sent you.
The link to reset the password was in the original email but appears to have been omitted from follow up emails (our apologies) – it can be found at https://woodsforpeople.envsys.co.uk/password_reset/ or alternatively, go to the log in page at https://woodsforpeople.envsys.co.uk/ and click on ‘request account reset’.

A. We define woodland as any land with greater than roughly 20% tree canopy cover, so it can be parkland with lots of trees, or an arboretum, it doesn’t have to be dense woodland. There is no minimum area of woodland needed to add your wood to the portal.

A. Yes please! Without the woodlands being on the portal they won’t show up on our online map with a helpful description provided by you which will help/encourage people to visit. They also wouldn’t be included in our analysis if they are not registered on the portal, as we only want to include woodlands for which the landowners are happy to allow access (rather than merely obliged by law).

A. This is absolutely fine – we understand that for many potential reasons, including in the interests of conservation, you might not want to increase the footfall in your woodlands. The Woods for People Portal gives you an option to hide your sites from our website, while keeping them registered in our database so that they can still contribute to our research.

A. If you are the named addressee in the email, the link could just be broken or expired, in which case, try this one https://woodsforpeople.envsys.co.uk/password_reset/ or find the same link by going to the log in page at https://woodsforpeople.envsys.co.uk/ and clicking on ‘request account reset’.
If you are not the named addressee in the email (the original recipient has forwarded the email to you), the password reset will not work as emails will continue to be sent to the original recipient. To take on the role of contact for your organisation, please inform us by emailing [email protected] and we will update our system with your details. The password reset link for your organisation will then go to your email address for you to set a new password and update your woodland details.

A. At the Woodland Trust we know how important it is for the general public to be able to easily access woodlands for recreation. We are committed to making the case for publicly accessible woodland close to where people live so they can enjoy the physical and mental benefits of spending time in woodlands, and to ensure woods are valued by society into the future. The woodlands added to the portal appear on our website under the ‘find a wood’ interactive map of the UK, where the public can search for accessible woodlands to visit. The wood descriptions provided by wood owners via the portal appear here to give more information. Importantly, we also use the data submitted to the portal for research. Every few years, we analyse what percentage of the population have access to woodland within a reasonable distance from their homes. We have been gathering this data for more than a decade. The results of our research so far can be found in our publication Space for People, on our website here: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/publications/2017/06/space-for-people-woodland-access/.