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Hide and seek in the woods. Photo: WTPL (12418) / Nicholas Spurling © Woodland Trust

Our Vision

We want to see a country rich in native woods and trees enjoyed and valued by everyone


Our aims

1 Work with others to plant more native trees…
See if we can help fund your tree planting project. Photo: WTPL (1608) / Matt Limb  We've set up many different schemes to help people plant trees
Find out how we can help you
Kids getting down to work. Photo: WTPL (14161) / Niall Benvie

We’ve inspired nearly two million children to plant more than seven million trees
Encourage your kids to get planting

Sapling. Photo: WTPL (6517) / EA Janes © Woodland Trust  We're busy planting the forests of the future. Every tree we plant costs us £15
How can you help us?
Heartwood Forest in waiting. Photo: WTPL (16768) / CTP Photography We’re planting Britain’s largest new native forest just a stone's throw from London
Become a part of tree planting history

 

2 Protect native woods, trees and their wildlife for the future…

We fight to preserve woodland like this for the future. Photo: WTPL (3247) / Steven Kind We campaign to protect woodland and trees under threat
Help save native woodland 
We fight many campaigns to prevent harm to our native woodland. Photo: WTPL (15598) / Nick Cobbing We have helped to save hundreds of woods by lobbying governments and councils
How do we do this?
Enjoy exploring our woods. Photo: WTPL (746) / Nicholas Spurling

We're fighting to replace non-native conifers planted in ancient forests with native trees
Help us to improve wildlife habitat

Spot ancient trees like this. Photo: WTPL (11735) / Steven Kind  With your help we’ve located more than 41,000 ancient trees so we can help protect them 
Spot ancient trees in your area
 

 

3 Inspire everyone to enjoy and value woods and trees…

Children become nature detectives. Photo WTPL (23983) / Dave Bonsall  We have loads of activities, games and free days out for children
Kids - become Nature Detectives 
Take a look at our interactive maps We have information, pictures, interactive maps and much more for each of our woods 
Visit one of our woods
Autumnal oak leaves in canopy Discover when tree leaves begin to appear, flowers bloom and migrant birds first arrive 
Keep up to date with Nature’s Calendar

 

 

Get involved with us...

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