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Woodland Trust

Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom · Nonprofit · National · since 1972

The UK's largest woodland conservation charity, creating, protecting and restoring native woods

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About

The Woodland Trust was founded in 1972 in Devon by Kenneth Watkins and is headquartered in Grantham, Lincolnshire, with offices in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It owns and cares for more than 1,000 woods covering over 33,000 hectares, restores ancient woodland and plantations on ancient woodland sites, campaigns on woodland protection, and creates new native woodland on its own estate and through free and subsidised tree packs for schools, communities, landowners and farmers (MOREwoods, MOREhedges). It reported income of 89.4 million pounds in 2024-25.

What they run

Free trees for schools and communities Tree adoption & giveaways

Gives away free native sapling packs to schools, councils, clubs and community groups across the UK.

MOREwoods and MOREhedges Afforestation

Subsidises up to 75% of the cost of trees and protection for landowners planting 500 or more trees on at least half a hectare, or more than 100 metres of new hedging.

Ancient woodland restoration Tree care & maintenance

Restores plantations on ancient woodland sites (PAWS) and other damaged ancient woods on the Trust's estate and on private land.

The numbers

MetricYearValueProgramConfidenceSource
Hectares restored20252,548Organization-wideSelf-reportedsourceReport and accounts 2024-25, p.13 achievements: 'Created 2,548 hectares of new wooded habitat and 209,868 metres of hedgerows' (new woodland creation, not restoration)
Seedlings produced20254,600,000Organization-wideSelf-reportedsourceReport and accounts 2024-25: 'In the 2024/25 financial year, 4.6 million trees were delivered in support of our work, 99.9% of which were grown using peat-free media' (trees supplied by nursery contracts)
Trees planted20255,000,000Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource'We planted more than five million new trees last year' (June 2024 - May 2025 financial year)

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