The Tree Council’s Branching Out programme supports community groups, schools, charities, and Tree Warden Networks in planting trees, hedgerows, and orchards across urban and rural areas.
During the 2024/2025 planting season, more than 90 projects flourished, resulting in the planting of 4,019 trees and approximately 3.5 km of hedgerow.
Some remarkable initiatives making a meaningful difference include:
🌳 Better Place Bradford,, enhancing local parks for families by planting trees and creating play areas.
🌱 Creggan Education and Research Services Ltd, preserving the region’s heritage of mixed farming and traditional practices, with a key focus on re-establishing native wooded areas.
🌲 Friends of Freeman’s Wood, transforming a former waste site into a biodiverse woodland buffer against noise and light pollution from nearby industrial expansion.
🍏 Glasbren, a community food and farming project based at Lords Park Farm that established edible tree rows to provide a sustainable food source for the community.
🏡 Saint Columb’s Park House, a charitable trust based in a public park in Derry/Londonderry, offering nature-based projects for schools, health support groups, and volunteers.
🌿The Nature Effect,, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company transforming two prison gardens at HMP Bullingdon, Bicester into restorative nature spaces.
Branching Out supports projects ranging in value from £250 to £2,500.
Applications will soon open—stay tuned and visit our website for more details!
