Our Heartwood Community Forest programme offers one of the most competitive hassle-free grant schemes for tree planting. Each grant is entirely bespoke and based on your individual needs.
From your first call to a Heartwood Community Forest woodland officer, a team of local experts will be available to help you realise the full potential that trees can bring to your land.
What trees can do for you and your land
- Increase biodiversity: Crops benefit as well as the environment
- Reduce flooding by slowing water runoff
- Prevent soil erosion - intricate root systems hold soil in place, water filtering through the roots helps prevent runoff of pollutants and silt entering the water course
- Trees help reduce wind erosion
- Provide shelter for livestock
- Support life on earth as they capture carbon and release oxygen
- Reduce pollution by absorbing harmful pollutants like nitrogen oxide, ammonia and sulphur dioxide
- Improve mental health and wellbeing
Benefits for your business
- Absorb carbon which can be sold as carbon credits or offset your own carbon emissions
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Recreation such as game shoots, glamping, outdoor adventurous activities to forest schools. Project dependant, additional funding sources are available
- Long term commitment with long term financial benefits
- You can be paid to maintain the trees planted on your land
- Trees are subject to a range of tax benefits
Woodland options
Grants are available to support a range of different woodland options, from small-scale and low-density tree planting to large multi-use woodlands extending more than 5 hectares, including:
- trees and woodland development
- hedgerows
- fencing and gates
Support for you
Our team will support you with 100% funding for design, planning, trees and labour, making your life easy.
We will help you:
- fill in the application form
- design a scheme that’s right for you
- manage the planting process
- ensure you have ongoing maintenance support for 10 years
How to apply
If you would like to find out more about getting involved and have land available within the community forest boundary area, please contact our team using the online form on the England’s Community Forests websiteand we'll be in touch to discuss further details and next steps.