Stories
Check out our latest news, case studies and interviews, as well as educational pieces on all things urban trees.
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How You Can Take Local Climate Action
14 September 2025
In the face of our rapidly changing climate, it's often hard to imagine how anything you can do will make a difference. Well, we're here to tell you it does - and here's how.
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SuDS in Cardiff Schools Feasibility Study
8 September 2025
How can schools beat flooding? We've partnered up with Cardiff schools, technical consultants and Cardiff Council to explore SuDS opportunities in a new study.
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Does ivy kill trees?
2 September 2025
Have you ever looked at an ivy-smothered tree and wondered if everything's ok? We take a deep dive into ivy to answer the question - friend or foe?
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Staff Stories: Kat's Transition to the Green Sector
11 August 2025
Trees for Climate Action trainee, Kat, shares her experience of pivoting her career with the help of our green traineeship.
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Tree maintenance volunteering with Bupa
5 August 2025
Have you ever wondered what a corporate volunteering day looks like? We joined Bupa employees in Victoria Park to find out why this volunteer support is so vital to our work.
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Expert Tree Watering Tips
7 July 2025
Our Urban Forest team are out watering our newly planted trees to help get them through the summer months, so we asked them for their expert watering advice.
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How urban trees turn down the heat
5 July 2025
Discover how urban trees work wonders in helping mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. What is the urban heat island effect, and how are trees part of the solution?
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Mini Documentary: Growing a Community in Tower Hamlets Estate
3 July 2025
We headed over to East London with TV Presenter Qasa Alom to visit a project we helped transform over a decade ago to see what the space looked like now.
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Staff Stories: Bolaji's Traineeship Journey
16 June 2025
Forestry Roots trainee, Bolaji Lemboye, shares her experience working as an Urban Forest Trainee at Trees For Cities.
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Inclusive Climate Action with Sensory Trust
28 May 2025
Climate action inclusivity is vital if we want to make our world a greener, healthier place to live. So what does that look like, and why is it so important?
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Generations Growing Together in Keighley
30 April 2025
In Keighley, we've been working with local groups of all ages to co-design and plant a woodland - not just to grow trees, but to grow a stronger community.
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Co-designing Queen's Park Primary School with pupils
28 April 2025
Queen’s Park Primary School playground was very concrete-heavy and in dire need of green space for outdoor education and recreation, so we transformed it!