For decades, town and city planners have recognised the importance of nature and greenery in urban areas. In fact, tree planting in our city streets goes back to the Victorian era. Long before we understood the detailed science of air pollution, we knew that trees played...
Bishop Knoll wood near Bristol has within its grounds an apple orchard. The trees were in need of a pruning and the Bishops knoll volunteers wanted to make sure that they pruned them correctly. They contacted a local expert Les Davies who agreed...
Volunteering Development Officer - Scotland I’m the Volunteering Development Officer for Scotland. I’m based in the Perth office and I’ve been in post since September 2016. I’m passionate about supporting volunteers in Scotland to help make the volunteering experience even more enjoyable and to run more...
Check your chestnuts, says RHS The festive scent of roasting chestnuts could be absent next Christmas because of a double threat to trees, the Royal Horticultural Society has warned. Britain’s sweet chestnut trees are currently battling the invasive oriental gall wasp as well as a deadly...
This year’s Volunteer Manager of the year is Louise Taylor from the UK National Tree Seed Project. Louise was nominated by Sue Quick, seed collection volunteer Sue said ‘I have been very impressed with Louise’s commitment to the job, which is particularly difficult as she has to...
Special Recognition Award Heritage Lottery funding, and the support of National Lottery players, allowed the Trust to make a massive step-change in its ancient woodland restoration activity across the UK. Building on the success of our Heritage Lottery-funded Ancient Tree Hunt project, where we amassed a team...
For the first time this year as part of the Volunteer Awards we decided to award the Sapling Award. This award is for a pupil at a school who has shown an outstanding contribution to engaging their school and wider school community with woods and trees. The...