The Woods for People project, initiated by the Woodland Trust in 2002 in partnership with the Forestry Commission, with support from the Environment and Heritage Service provides access to accessible woodland data. The aim was to produce a comprehensive inventory of accessible woodland across the UK to improve public access and use. Since 2003 Environment Systems has been involved in the annual data collection and maintenance for this project. The process involves contacting woodland owners and managers by email, telephone and post to update the data held by the Trust.

In 2019, Environment Systems was commissioned to develop an online portal to enable woodland owners to manage their data themselves. The portal has been set up to send out automated reminders every year to request that woodland holdings and contact information are checked and updated if necessary. Since its launch, the portal has reduced the number of those needing to be contacted by half. Data collected through the portal is fed into the Trust’s central database which powers the ‘Find a wood’ section of the Trust’s website. Members of the public can enter a location and see all the woods with open access in that area.