Stories
Check out our latest news, case studies and interviews, as well as educational pieces on all things urban trees.
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Our 2024-25 Planting Impact
20 October 2025
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.
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Famous Urban Trees Around The World
15 October 2025
Discover some of the world’s most famous urban trees, and how these city trees root us in history, play a part in our culture, and bring life to our streets.
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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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Mini Documentary: Growing a Community in Tower Hamlets Estate
3 July 2025
We returned to East London with TV Presenter Qasa Alom to visit a green space we transformed over a decade ago to see what the space looks 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!