Tree Stories

1 December 2021

Join our mission: Let's fill our streets with trees

Tree-lined streets should be the norm. Trees improve our health, wellbeing and quality of life, they are essential.

25 November 2021

The first Trees for Streets tree was planted in Haringey! Sarah sponsored a tree for the empty pit outside her house., and got her wish of having a cherry tree planted.

23 November 2021

Sponsor Stories: Barbara

Barbara chose to sponsor a tree in a local park in Bedford as a lasting way to remember her late husband, and celebrate his life.

19 November 2021

How Street Trees help make our roads safer

We know they make our streets greener, but did you know that street trees can make our roads safer too?

17 November 2021

Sponsor Stories: Pablo

Introducing Pablo, the first person in Cambridge to sponsor a tree using the Trees for Streets app. Here's his story...

10 November 2021

Sponsor Stories: Michelle

Michelle chose to sponsor a Celebration Tree as a positive and lasting way to remember her late mother.

9 November 2021

Sponsor stories: Gavin

Tree-watering hero Gavin is no stranger to keeping street trees topped up in the summer.

8 November 2021

Sponsor Stories: Helen

Helen loves trees so much, she's turned her front garden into a woodland glen. We met her on a sunny September day in Cambridge.

5 November 2021

Planting season is underway in Cambridge

The first city to join our national scheme planted their first street trees this week - and were helped by one of their Councillors too!

1 November 2021

Sponsor Stories: Sarah & Arthur

Sarah and Arthur chose to live in the Hornsey area of Haringey because it's one of the least polluted parts of London. Planting more street trees will help it to stay that way.

27 October 2021

Green in every sense of the word

You've probably heard: street trees are amazing! Here are some of the main environmental benefits trees bring to your neighbourhood.

26 October 2021

Sponsor Stories: Hannah

Hannah has really taken Trees for Streets to heart, sponsoring a street tree in the Barnwell area of Cambridge, and several Celebration Trees in a local park.

25 October 2021

Autumn, the golden season of trees

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree...

29 September 2021

GoodGym pound the pavements of Croydon

Last night GoodGym volunteers took to the streets of Croydon to tell people about the local Trees for Streets scheme.

27 September 2021

Street Trees are worth their weight in gold

Our urban areas are the heart of our economy and investing in boosting local high streets is a huge priority. But how do you go about putting an economic value on trees?

14 September 2021

Using their feet to green the streets

GoodGym took to the streets of Tower Hamlets a second time to help us get the word out to local residents about Trees for Streets.

9 September 2021

How street trees can make our lives healthier and happier

You don’t have to travel to the countryside or even a local park to enjoy the benefits of being in nature. Even in the most urban areas, the presence of trees can have a profound and proven effect on our quality of life.

1 September 2021

Greener Streets for Hillingdon

We’re on a mission to get a quarter of a million more street trees planted nationwide over the next 10 years, and Hillingdon is the latest borough to join us!

24 August 2021

"Trees the day" - GoodGym help us to green Tower Hamlets

We spent an energising evening with the Good Gym team in Tower Hamlets helping spread the word about Trees for Streets…

4 August 2021

Filling Croydon with Trees

Croydon is the latest UK council to join our national trees sponsorship scheme, to help deliver on its ambitious tree planting goals.

28 July 2021

Haringey joins Trees for Streets

Haringey is the latest London borough to join Trees for Streets, and among the first UK councils to come on board.

14 July 2021

Making Bradford greener, one tree at a time

Bradford is the first Yorkshire council to join our national street tree sponsorship scheme.

2 July 2021

More trees for Bedford!

Bedford Borough Council is the latest to join our national street tree sponsorship scheme, making it easy for local residents to get trees planted in their streets.

17 June 2021

Cleaner air for Tower Hamlets

This Clean Air Day, Tower Hamlets is the latest London council to join our national street tree sponsorship scheme.

Street Trees are worth their weight in gold

Our urban areas are the heart of our economy and investing in boosting local high streets is a huge priority. But how do you go about putting an economic value on trees?

We're recruiting!

We’re recruiting a number of exciting and varied roles to help build up our high-performance team to support our launch.

Let's fill Cambridge with trees!

Cambridge City Council is one of the first to join our national street tree sponsorship scheme!

Trees for Streets branches out in Harrow

We're delighted to announce that Harrow Council is among the first UK councils to join our national street tree sponsorship scheme!

Street trees are great for our well-being

Street trees are great for both our physical and our mental wellbeing, and that’s a fact.

Street tree resources

Our resources page contains a curated list of links to relevant organisations, reports, research, articles, and books. We hope you find it useful.

8 Amazing Benefits From Street Trees

A whistle-stop tour of the myriad benefits of the humble street tree.

The Power of Sponsoring a Street Tree

How improving your local environment creates a net good for your whole city.

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