The Big Tree Plant

Groundwork is working in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and a number of green space organisations on The Big Tree Plant - a new national tree planting campaign to plant one million extra trees across England in the next four years. 

The Big Tree Plant aims to improve the quality of life in England's urban areas by making neighbourhoods more attractive, healthy places to live and is supported by grant funding of £1 million per year for the next four years.  

Anyone can get involved by planting and caring for trees.  The Big Tree Plant will focus on encouraging community groups and organisations to establish (or expand) projects that care for trees.  The campaign will also encourage individuals to get involved, for example through volunteering at local tree planting events if they exist, or if not to set up new events. 

Click here to visit The Big Tree Plant website.

  • How to apply for funding

    Click here to find out how you can apply for grant funding for The Big Tree Plant

  • Other grant funded green space programmes

    Groundwork currently manages a number of grant funded green space programmes, each with the aim of encouraging communities to play an active role in the creation and maintenance of their local green space.

How we can help you

We work alongside communities, public bodies, private companies and voluntary sector organisations.

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We make a difference

In 2010/11 we planted 83,000 trees.