--- title: "United Kingdom" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/ publisher: "Not For Sale" --- Europe · Where we work # United Kingdom How Not For Sale works alongside communities in United Kingdom to address root causes and build lasting change. [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) United Kingdom · Planet ## Community Tree Planting Not For Sale’s [planet](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-ecocide/) work in the United Kingdom supports the Community Tree Planting project through Tree-Nation. The UK’s domestic ecosystems are stressed, but its greater environmental impact is offshore: UK imports drive tens of thousands of hectares of [deforestation](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-ecocide/) abroad through forest-risk commodities including beef, soy, palm oil, and cocoa. By the numbers 550 Trees planted through Community Tree Planting 0.275 Hectares reforested 130 Metric tons of CO₂ sequestered [View on Tree-Nation](https://tree-nation.com/projects/uk-community-tree-planting) ![Community tree planting, United Kingdom](https://tree-nation.com/thumbs/1080x660/https://treenation-uploads.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/project-6283cfdfc07a4.jpg) ### Why This Matters The UK’s imported [deforestation](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-ecocide/) footprint is where its consumption intersects directly with [forced labor](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) on farms, ranches, and plantations in Not For Sale partner regions, from [Peru](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/peru/) to [Brazil](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/brazil/) to [Cameroon](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/cameroon/). Delays in enforcing the Environment Act’s due-diligence rules have left these supply chains largely unpoliced. Community tree planting at home is a visible commitment, but the real leverage is in the supply chains that connect UK consumers to [ecocide](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-ecocide/) and [trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/learn/what-is-human-trafficking/) abroad. [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/donate/) ## Field updates Stories from the team on the ground. Showing **20** of **20** May 2025 May 29, 2025 A pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) thriving at Suie Fields community smallholding in Galloway in May 2025 This beautiful landscape was almost completely deforested to make way for pasture and now this is one of many projects in the area to try to bring back some areas of woodland. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) May 28, 2025 Great to see this update from Suie Fields in Galloway These trees were planted in January 2023 and are now really beginning to thrive. They form a woodland edge to a community smallholding and provide some very welcome tree cover to this largely deforested landscape. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) April 2025 April 30, 2025 A 2025 drone clip of one of the planting sites at Huntingdon, planted in March 2024 This is at the entrance to the site, so borders the busy dual-carriageways that criss-cross the area. When mature this will provide a much-needed woodland edge to the site and be valued by people and wildlife alike. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) April 30, 2025 Great to be back at Huntingdon checking up on the 5,100 trees planted in March 2024 They're looking fantastic – the rainy summer last year has meant we've got very high survival rates – over 98%! [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) September 2024 September 4, 2024 Great to be up at the Lowther Estate – one of the largest nature restoration projects in the UK Thanks to everyone for supporting us! [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) May 2024 May 21, 2024 So nice to get out to Northern Ireland and to visit past projects These Alder trees just love the wet weather and are really thriving! [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) April 2024 April 25, 2024 The trees are really thriving One of the best parts of my job is going back to past projects and seeing the trees that were planted a few years ago. Yesterday we went over to the Blue Cross in Burford, Oxfordshire to monitor the trees planted in 2022. Now they've spent the last two years putting down roots, they're really beginning to grow and are rocketting out of the tree guards on their way to becoming a real young forest! We can't wait to carry on visiting this site for years to come. Thanks for all your help to making projects like this possible [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) March 2024 March 12, 2024 On the Lowther Estate in the Lake District, you can clearly see the effect of centuries of deforestation A few years ago, there were no trees in this huge field! Today were are seeing trees are being planted alongside a naturalised river. The river is being left to re-establish its own course through the landscape, which will create a much more dynamic landscape. This will slow down the speed of water as it moves through the watershed, reducing flooding downstream and creating wet-woodland habitats in the uplands. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) March 12, 2024 Fantastic to visit the Lowther Estate in the Lake District and see the newly planted trees kindly supported by Tree Nation After centuries of settlement and agriculture, this area has been largely deforested, with dramatic declines in wildlife populations. This large-scale planting is part of a multi-year effort to restore vital Atlantic rainforest habitat in upland England forms an integral part of a large-scale natural regeneration ongoing in the area. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) January 2024 January 25, 2024 Our longstanding partner Nature and Nurture Activities have completed their woodland planting at the Blue Cross animal rehoming centre in Burford, West Oxfordshire. Thanks to support from Tree Nation, a wide variety of native species, 1100 in total, have been planted to restock the woodland following Ash Dieback. The new planting has opened up opportunities for re-designing the woodland, creating paths and glades that will enhance the beauty and access around the site. Over 60 community volunteers came to lend a hand including our project staff and Trustees! [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) January 25, 2024 An overview of our planting project on the Isle of Arran This is a community-farm, that produces organic food for local people to buy. Scottish islands are very dependent on imports and this can be very expensive, as well as disconnecting people from the food system. Planting 5055 trees at this site will create more sheltered fields for the production of this food, as well as engaging local people in the topic of trees and local food. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) January 25, 2024 Great to get some trees planted on the Isle of Arran. This is a very windy place Here local schoolchildren are helping plant shelterbelts at the very southern point of the island, providing shelter for organic food production as well as fantastic habitat for wildlife. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) November 2023 November 27, 2023 Very excited to be lining up our tree planting projects for the coming season So far we have project from Kent to Stirling, and many places inbetween, totalling 50,000 trees. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) November 2, 2023 A thriving oak tree (Quercus robur) at Black Cap, East Sussex (September 2023) [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) November 2, 2023 Great to go and visit this project at Black Cap, East Sussex. This is an extraordinary landscape, right on the South Downs escarpment This project is all about connecting up patches of woodland. As you can see from the map above, we have planted out 40 metres from the hedgerows in this field to create a woodland edge. In total we planted 4000 trees here in a bid to connect up areas of woodland that were otherwise isolated. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) August 2023 August 14, 2023 Fantastic to see photos of our tree planting partners in Surrey at the new headquarters for Wildlife Aid These local community volunteers are braving the cold weather and the fading light to create a woodland copse on the banks of the River Mole. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) July 2023 July 14, 2023 Beautiful to see these new trees thriving in our recent projects with Banbury Trees in Oxfordshire which saw 1400 trees planted by the local community! [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) June 2023 June 23, 2023 Very happy to have visited the Govan Wetlands last week and to see the fabulous restoration work going on there This is a wider regeneration of the old drydocks site in the centre of Glasgow that has laid desolate for decades. We are supporting the planting of thousands of trees on the site to create a new green community space for local people and wildlife alike. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) February 2023 February 7, 2023 Great to be planting again with Trees for Farms This year we're adding hedgerows and copses to country lanes near Faversham in Kent with the local community. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) August 2022 August 25, 2022 Local community members plant Hazel (Corylus avellana) trees at the Manor Stables planting site (Northern Ireland) This site was too wet to be used by the stables’ horses and so was approved for woodland creation in January 2022. Appropriate species have been planted in the wetter areas of the fields where they will thrive. [Support](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) [Support this project](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/united-kingdom/?campaign=770665) #### At a glance Region Europe Focus Aftercare, Vocational training, Advocacy Since 2013 [All projects](https://wearenotforsale.org/projects/) #### From the news [Fast Fashion: The Human and Environmental Price of Cheap Clothing Human Trafficking](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/fast-fashion-human-environmental-cost/) [What Are the 5 Ps of Human Trafficking? 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