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Discover the latest stories from our partners and the impact your generous donation is making for people and planet. And read our views on the issues facing our environment and the communities we work with.
Working in a world of pests and diseases - How ITF helps community groups to adapt
Pests and diseases in their many guises, have a major impact on our native trees and woodlands and the wildlife associated with them.
Nurturing a greener Oxfordshire
We celebrated this year’s National Tree Week by giving away 3,000 free native saplings to over 1,000 households across Oxfordshire through the Garden Tree Giveaway!
What the Sycamore Gap tells us about our relationship with trees
“This act of vandalism is all the harder to come to terms with because of its sheer pointlessness. And out of this our collective mourning of this tree has revealed a curious paradox about our relationship to nature in the UK.”
Community tree planting support for Scotland
In the past few years, we have supported many projects, from urban planting in central Glasgow to community buyouts on the Isle of Skye and we would love to continue further with this.
Grow a greener future with Plantober
In the UK, we desperately need more native trees. If you’re looking for a way to make a positive impact on the environment, join us this October for Plantober!
The elegance of dead standing trees
If these trees are not going to cause a danger to public safety, are they not best left to stand and fall in their own time?
Healing in the Outdoors
The Healing in the Outdoors project is making a positive impact in the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in Oxfordshire.
Help make Oxfordshire greener with our Garden Tree Giveaway
We're giving away free native trees (and hedging) to local residents across Oxfordshire. With your support, we can engage and inspire more people to plant trees for a greener, healthier and more sustainable future.
Riccall Woodmeadow
In the countryside village of Riccall, is a wood meadow that is specifically designed to offer local residents a serene sanctuary to unwind from the daily grind.
Rewilding in Northamptonshire
Rewilding creates landscapes and ecosystems that are more biodiverse, resilient, and healthy. One of our UK planting projects has helped to do just this.
What we’re up to this National Tree Planting Week
Our UK team kickstarted this National Tree Planting Week with an exciting tree planting session alongside one of our community partners at the Blue Cross animal rehoming centre in Burford, West Oxfordshire.
Football and trees: Crewe United’s community woodland
We partnered up with Crewe United to plant trees that restore the local landscape in Glenavy, Northern Ireland.
The healing power of trees
Discover how we're supporting a community in Truro, Cornwall to boost mental health and wellbeing through tree planting.
Empowering communities to plant trees in Burford
In Burford, West Oxfordshire, our partner, Nature and Nurture is inspiring and mobilising local community groups to protect, enhance and restore their local landscape.
COP26 Snapshots: community work with local people
There are big commitments being made at COP26. But we are proud to be working with communities to do something concrete for the environment.
The state of the UK’s woods and trees
Last month, the Woodland Trust published a landmark report, State of the UK’s Woods and Trees 2021. In it, the state of our native trees is laid bare.
90 Kids with Trowels
On this day, we’d be planting a native hedge – 60 bare-root saplings of Beech, Hornbeam, Hazel, Hawthorn, Blackthorn and Wayfaring Tree.
Protecting semi-wooded pasture: A community tree planting project in The Forest of Dean
Join us on the first day of the Worcester Walk Community Project's landscape restoration journey, as we plant a continuous native hedge to protect the rare semi-wooded pasture in the Forest of Dean.
Scroggy Wood: An island of trees
In 2007 this land was unproductive farmland. Two streams flowed sluggishly through it to form a boggy field. With over 1,000 trees have been planted to transform the land and landscape.
Oxford City Farm’s forest garden
Oxford City Farm was set up a few years ago on a site in East Oxford as a space where people can grow food together, learn new skills, and meet new people.
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