BIG TREE PLANT – LAST ROUND OF FUNDING

Community groups are invited to apply to the Big Tree Plant’s final funding round by 30th August 2013.  For more info on how to apply, visit the Forestry Commission website

The Big Tree Plant is a national tree planting campaign being delivered by civil society partners and conservation organisations with Defra and the Forestry Commission.  The aim of the Big Tree Plant is to plant 1 million new trees by 2015 supported by £4million of grant funding from the Forestry Commission.  

The Big Tree Plant is on target to achieve this goal with 152 individual projects funded through the grant scheme and funding already allocated to plant almost 965,000 trees.  Of these trees, over 475,000 trees have been planted to date.  Local groups have identified over £7m of match funding to deliver their projects. 70% of trees in the Big Tree Plant programme will be planted in the country’s most deprived and least green areas.  The trees must be planted with landowner permission in open spaces, neighbourhoods or on streets that are open to all to visit or where local people will benefit from them.