Are you keen to plant trees and hedges in your garden or on your land? Do you want to see wildlife flourishing from your window? If you do, you can get started with a Woodland Trust tree pack. If you thought your garden was too small...
Campaign for massive woodland expansion Today we have launched our plan to increase tree cover across the UK and tackle the climate and nature crises. It’s called the Emergency Tree Plan and you can take action here: https://campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/54227/action/1 Here’s the background: The Committee on Climate Change states that the...
A team of 16 scouts from Consett supported the Woodland Trust on a cold and snowy December day at our Four Lane Ends Wood and Castle Hill Wood locations in North West Durham. Located near to the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty means that...
On 30th November 158 members of the public turned out to plant 3150 trees on a stunning sunny, frosty day at Kinclaven Bluebell Wood in Perthshire! This event was one of many #BigClimateFightback events across Scotland and the UK, to mark how important trees are in...
Last Saturday saw the planting of a fantastic 2000 trees at Shaw Cross, near Wakefield. An enormous thank you to volunteer Roger Parkinson for organising such a fabulously successful day, as well as a thank you to all the volunteers who came out to support him. Despite...
From 5-9 November 2019 we hosted a week of tree planting opportunities for the community around Kinclaven Bluebell Wood. Over the week we managed to plant 4,390 trees. The trees were planted in a field to the south of the existing ancient woodland which will...
In Scotland we are embracing the Trust's Big Climate Fightback, which aims to have 1 million people pledging to plant a tree on 30th November 2019. It would be great if all of our Scotland volunteers would pledge to plant a tree; you can plant...
16th March was the final day of a whole week of tree planting and Rhododendron removal at Kinclaven Bluebell Wood. After a run of sunny weekdays that saw primary school children and volunteer staff from some of our corporate sponsors planting trees in the spring...
Early February 2019, there was a busy day at The Woodland Trust’s Nunsbrough Wood, located just a few miles South of Hexham, Northumberland. The weather was very kind during the day as two groups of about 8 to 10 students and teachers from The Priory School...
Huge congratulations to all the volunteers and to site manager Jill Aitken after a phenomenal planting week at Kinclaven Bluebell Wood in Perthshire. The Trust bought this stunning oak wood in 2017, along with some adjacent fields, many of which had previously been under woodland...