The Knaresborough Forest Park (KFP) is a project founded in late 2022 when Yorkshire locals decided to buy 60 acres of land of what was formerly the historic Knaresborough Forest.
Around 2,000 pledges were made with a grant of £410,000 from the George Moore Foundation and a loan from an environmental charitable fund called We Have the Power.
The project is part of a wider proposal Long Lands Common (LLC) which was established in 2020 by members who purchased the initial 30 acres of greenbelt farmland between Harrogate and Knaresborough.
The KFP land is made up of nine fields which will be utilised to create community building activities.
George Eglese, member of the LLC board and creative director of KFP, and Geoff Freeston, the site lead for KFP explained the project.
