Trees for Cities CEO, Kate Sheldon, reflects on 33 years of planting urban trees, and why helping them survive is getting harder.

We've wrapped up yet another wonderful planting season in 2025/26 — another year of planting trees and engaging with volunteers across the country!

After 33 years of greening towns and cities, we celebrated a key milestone for the charity: we planted our 2 millionth tree!

On March 6th, we held a community tree planting event in Hartlepool, where dozens of residents came together to help tackle the town's low tree canopy cover!

We've been planting urban trees for over 30 years, sharing their benefits with communities across the UK and inspiring feelings of hope!

For over 25 years, Sir Michael Palin has been a friend and supporter of Trees for Cities - now he’s lending his voice to our BBC Radio 4 Appeal for greener communities.

In the 2024-25 planting season, we worked in more urban areas across the UK than ever before! Find out more about how we're making a difference.

Tree Equity for Hartlepool will help combat the town's low canopy cover which is well below the national average.

A record number of UK towns and cities have been awarded Tree Cities of the World status for their leading work in urban forestry.

Trees for Cities has been recognised for our outstanding services to community at the Mercy4Mankind Awards Reception 2024.

This planting season, we've been contributing towards the London Tree Ring, a vision for driving the creation of more woodland around our capital.

Planting trees and connecting people to nature - what a perfect way to celebrate National Tree Week!