Crowdfunding
Communities can now crowdfund street trees.
Communities across the country are looking for practical, positive ways to make their streets greener—and that’s exactly why we created our Trees for Streets Crowdfunding service.
Over recent years, we’ve supported community‑led campaigns of all shapes and sizes: entire streets transforming their neighbourhoods, parents and councillors greening the routes to school, friends improving their highstreets, and even volunteers revitalising the garden of a historic church tower.
If your council is partnered with Trees for Streets, your community can launch its own campaign and bring more trees to the places you care about most. We’re here to help make it happen.
We’ve seen three main themes emerging from our recent work: Green-My-Street, School Street and Community Trees.
There are many streets that desperately need greening, where there are few or no trees at all. Often there are strong street communities who would love to have the opportunity to come together to starting raising funds to green up their street.
This can be an activity that happens in small steps, or a big bang planting of 20 + trees.
If you’d like to green your street, drop us a line using the form below.
More councils are recognising the need to improve the quality of our walk-to-school routes. They know they need to encourage more walking, and they understand the need to green-up their school streets.
Some local authorities help parents close school streets during pick-up and drop-off times to actively reduce pollution and encourage walking. We’d like to help you work with your local authority to raise funds to plant more trees in these streets.
Most of the councils we’re supporting have locations within their boroughs that are ‘more’ in need of new street trees. These may be areas with lower tree canopy, lower affluence, near schools and busy polluted roads. Our crowdfunding service allows residents and local businesses to make donations towards these trees.
This is a simple way that councils can raise new funding for these priority locations.
If you live in one of our participating council areas, and you’d like to get involved, then we’d love to hear from you.
We’ll ask your council whether it would be viable to plant at your suggested location. If it is, and there is enough support locally to run a campaign, then you will be able to take on job of managing this locally. But don’t worry, we’ll be on hand to help.
We ask that crowdfund campaigns are for a minimum of 5 trees and that there is existing community support for this type of scheme.
Each scheme of planting is on land owned and managed by your council. They are responsible for planting the tree, and maintaining it. They own these trees. Trees for Streets makes it possible for communities to easily raise funding for these trees. Your council has to survey the location and verify that the scheme can go ahead.
Please note it make take a few weeks to get a decision from your local council, and we will ask you questions to help verify your proposal.
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