https://www.essex.gov.uk/essex-forest-initiative The Essex Forest Initiative Find out more about the Essex Forest Initiative and how you can get involved In October 2019, we committed to plant £1 million worth of trees over the next five years. This included planting 375,000 trees, over 150 hectares, equivalent to the size of 210 football pitches. So far, the initiative has exceeded its targets for the first 4 years, making a total of: trees: 412,503  hectares: 100 hedgerows: 51,028m