2018 Our year in the woods

1 More members, more volunteers, Rebecca Farnfield, Alfie Bloor, tree planter and ever more voices shouting up for war poet We reached a remarkable our cause. It was a bumper year for In August I was up with milestone last year – the lark, quite literally, 250,000 members – and the Trust, says CEO Beccy Speight at Langley Vale, our what I love is the fantastic flagship First World War letters they write sharing 2018 BEGAN WITH A BANG for Centenary Wood near the Trust, when the Government their passion for our cause. Epsom. We camped out announced it was getting A highlight was meeting this overnight, picnicking under a behind our flagship Northern 15-year-old lad from Sheffield, stately old beech, and it brought home Forest project. With £5.7 who was keen to get stuck in as a Trust million in seed-funding in to me the beauty and potential of our volunteer. He’s started his own tree nursery the bag, and the region’s burgeoning new woodland there. The in the greenhouse, and the family fridge community forests on Trust’s nationwide project to plant is full of seeds! It was great to be able to board, we’ll be planting 50 trees in memory of those who served point Alfie towards our new Mead project, in million trees in a mosaic across and sacrificed in the war culminated Derbyshire, which will blossom into Britain’s England’s industrial north – easily last year, and what a knockout it has first ever Young People’s Forest (see p7). the most ambitious woodland creation been (see p7). Langley Vale is already initiative we’ve ever embarked upon (see p4). looking amazing, and people have really The Smithills volunteers, It was a landmark moment, and for me it got behind it – last winter more than fire stoppers embodied so many themes that define the 500 turned up to plant trees in a single I was in Ireland when I first Trust’s work these days. day! Vivid new memorial woods now bud heard about the wildfires We are planting trees at scale: 3.3 in all four countries of the UK, and my at Smithills Estate, our million last year, 25% more than in 2017, personal highlight was hearing Farnham spectacular complex of including almost a million we gifted free schoolgirl Rebecca Farnfield recite her woods and moorland outside to community groups and schools across poem I Stand Alone at Langley’s Armistice Bolton. Our first task was hiring the nation. We’re moving out into urban event in November. It moved me to tears. helicopters to douse the flames. A third settings and open countryside, with 11 of our land was torched (see p5), and rousing new landscape-scale projects Alice Whitehead, soon afterwards I was standing on to invigorate wide miles of habitat – the street fighter fire-watch with our wonderful volunteer Northern Forest is one, but they extend Our £500,000 street group there, looking out for smouldering from the West Highlands to the South trees project is backed peat. With their help we’re now repairing Downs. October’s unveiling of the £3.4 by players of People’s the damage, and it drives home why million Summit to Sea project in Wales Postcode Lottery, and climate change looms large in the Trust’s blazed a trail for that agenda (see p6). it’s been a huge hit. It’s thinking these days – and how vitally we And we are winning ever more ground in just one of the ways we need our army of 2,589 volunteers. our mission to persuade policy-makers in spread the Trust agenda beyond all four countries of the UK of the myriad our traditional woodland strongholds in Al Nash, benefits of trees – for biodiversity, air 2018, shouting up for trees in parks, on glade runner quality, flood prevention, carbon capture, roadsides, in hedges and on farms. Last Our staff often health, recreation, and timber of course. summer we mailed 500 tree-themed go beyond the call As I write this, the Trust is lobbying hard street-party packs to neighbourhood of duty, and no one to win a positive new deal for woods and groups nationwide, including bin-stickers more so than Al Nash, wildlife post-Brexit. The need is urgent, and and bunting, and in November toasted who took on the London the flame burns brighter than ever here, the most inspiring campaigners at our Marathon last April – fanned by the exceptional backing of our inaugural Street Trees Awards. Trust while dressed as an oak! members, volunteers, partners and funders. president Clive Anderson handed out He got round in four hours The next 10 pages celebrate your vital role the gongs at Alexandra Palace, and I 14 minutes, raised £4,000 in our continued success – starting with was especially inspired by a chat with for the Trust, and starred my memories of some exceptional people Alice Whitehead, who is mobilising her in the BBC’s coverage too, who’ve inspired me this year. Thanks so Northampton neighbours to champion spreading the word about all much for your unstinting support: we’d be the trees on their doorsteps, petitioning that woods can do for the WTML/PHIL FORMBY. COVER IMAGES: JILL JENNINGS, PHIL FORMBY, MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, JOEL GOODMAN. JOEL HEFFERNAN, MICHAEL FORMBY, JENNINGS, PHIL JILL IMAGES: COVER FORMBY. WTML/PHIL nowhere without you. the council to look after them better. UK’s health and well-being. IMAGES: WTML/PHIL FORMBY, RACHEL LEE, JOEL GOODMAN. BACKGROUND IMAGE: DAVID CHAMBERLAIN/WTML DAVID IMAGE: GOODMAN. BACKGROUND JOEL LEE, RACHEL FORMBY, WTML/PHIL IMAGES: INCOME Her Majesty’s pleasure How we The Queen took on a surprising 10 big moments new job in April – as a star of tree Heartwood, heroes and Her Majesty... here are TV. A landmark ITV documentary raised it saw Her Majesty touring the Buckingham our highlights from 2018 at the Woodland Trust Palace gardens with Sir David Attenborough as she chatted about her lifelong love of trees Gifts in wills accounted for and the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy fully one third of the Trust’s – a burgeoning network of 53 woodland income in 2018. We are so conservation initiatives across the globe. grateful to receive these gifts The QCC’s Welsh project focuses on ancient from those keen to see nature Wentwood Forest, near Newport, which the flourish for future generations. Woodland Trust is helping to restore to its historic vibrancy. And our other contribution was an interactive public planting drive: WTML/JUDITH PARRY Trust membership boomed with funding help from our project sponsor REX/SHUTTERSTOCK last year – topping 250,000 Sainsbury’s, we mailed 50,000 free trees to and adding an extra £1 million ITV viewers nationwide, then an extra 24,000 to our funds. If you’re among WTML/JILL JENNINGS to green-fingered Londoners in partnership our growing band, thanks! with the city’s mayor. MAR Heartwood, 25 we love you JUNE Donations from generous Trust Rising from supporters are invaluable – in At Heartwood Forest near St 28 the ashes 2018 they helped us save a JAN Albans we have conjured England’s Northern It was the Trust’s greatest gorgeous ancient wood at biggest new broadleaf wood for 07 setback of 2018: a Avoncliff, near Bath, home to Forest is go! decades, and in March the very last catastrophic spate of wildfires bats, woodpeckers and more. What a cracking start of its 600,000 vibrant young trees to the year! The Trust’s went in. Ordinary nature-lovers on Winter Hill, outside Bolton. bold blueprint for a have planted every one – including They scorched over 200 50-million-tree forest hectares of moors, meadows Companies, trusts and landfill 17,000 schoolchildren – and a speckled along the decade after the project began, and woods on our panoramic tax contributed more than ever Smithills Estate, the Trust’s in 2018, £2.7 million of that spine of the M62 got there’s a community orchard and the green light this an arboretum showcasing native biggest site in England and from longstanding partners home to more than 1,000 including Sainsbury’s, IKEA, month, as a key plank species, while the bluebell woods of the Government’s species of flora and fauna. Premier Paper and Yorkshire Tea. and meadows are already bursting WTML/LIZ FLEMING WILLIAMS new 25-year plan for with wildlife. Skylark numbers Nesting oystercatchers and short-eared owls lost their the environment. Defra have doubled, barn owl chicks Save our oak trees committed £5.7 million have fledged, hen harriers and homes; innumerable reptiles May saw the launch of a pioneering drive to save Grants from public bodies fell to help get things going, yellow-necked mice are returning. and insects perished. Restoring the nation’s most iconic tree – with the Woodland overall, but a major boon was and we aim to plant the habitat is expected to

Trust in the vanguard. Britain has more than 120 million WTML/AMY LEWIS £600,000 from Pears #iwill saplings in a mosaic of cost more than £250,000 – oaks, including Europe’s best array of ancient ones, but Fund and Pears Foundation to habitats stretching all but we’ve made a fast start, Creating Heartwood Forest the species is imperilled by the deadly syndrome Acute kick-start our Young People’s the way from Liverpool rewetting the moorland and has been a terrific adventure, Oak Decline and the voracious oak processionary moth, Forest project (see overleaf). to Hull, in tandem planting more than with everyone from Mickey an imported pest now spreading through London and the with the region’s four 28,000 new South East. Unveiled at May’s Chelsea Flower Show, the £15 community forests. By Mouse to Clive Anderson trees, including million Action Oak campaign will tackle those threats, with the end of 2018 we had mucking in. The real story, the first official Other income included nearly backing from government ministers, the Prince of Wales, the firm plans to get the first though, is the huge community saplings in £2.9 million from players of National Trust and other big-hitting conservation agencies. People’s Postcode Lottery, who 800,000 effort that’s made the forest our mammoth funded our Green Tree Schools trees happen. Every school within Northern Forest Award scheme to get children in the ten miles must have visited The oak is our country’s most important tree, engaging with nature. ground. project to plant, and I always get the provider of numerous benefits to us and our (see left). a thrill hearing the excited environment. We must do all we can to preserve the Total income: babble of the children. health of these trees for future generations. £44.6 million Brian Legg, Heartwood volunteer Geraint Richards, head forester, Duchy of Cornwall

4 ANNUAL REVIEW 2018 EXPENDITURE NOV A forest for 11 the fallen How we Armistice Day witnessed the culmination of the scheme that has spearheaded all the Trust’s spent it planting efforts since 2014 – our First World War Centenary Woods. Three million saplings This is what the Trust invested are now budding nationwide as last year in creating woodland a living legacy for the millions and places rich in trees – that’s who fought or fell, including more than 1,700 hectares of 2,659 community copses planted new woods (up from 1,345ha in by schools and neighbourhood 2017), and 3.3 million saplings. groups from Orkney to Redruth. It includes £1.4 million we I am planting a memorial Our lead sponsor Sainsbury’s spent buying land for planting. grove at Langley Vale donated a stunning £4.75 million, Wood, and the whole the England World Cup squad WTML/DES LLOYD WTML/DES project seems such a planted trees in memory of the OCT fitting tribute. Like the Football Battalions, and project This is what we spent on From summit and other men and women they patron the Princess Royal cut restoring woodland 04 to sea the ribbon on our flagship sites wildlife-rich habitat last year. In stand for, these trees are at Brackfield in Londonderry all we lined up 3,334 hectares of Autumn raised the curtain dignified, life-giving, vital. the UK’s precious ancient woods on what could be the UK’s and Ffos Las, Carmarthenshire. Julian Fellowes, for restoration in 2018, many of most dynamic landscape Our centenary woods in Epsom writer and historian and Edinburgh hosted memorial them degraded by non-native

regeneration project yet. Led FORMBY WTML/PHIL conifer plantations. by the Trust and Rewilding events too. Britain, and backed by Arcadia and other partners, Summit to Sea aims to enrich habitats Groundbreaking! Our work protecting native

WTML/MARK ZYTYNSKI WTML/MARK all the way from the heights woods scored major successes of Pumlumon through the Dyfi November heralded another major first for the last year. Our campaigns team JULY Sanctuaries Valley and out into Cardigan Trust: the unveiling of plans for our pioneering Young fought for 100% of the ancient WTML/RICHARD GIBBS People’s Forest, at Heanor in Derbyshire. We’ve teamed up with 24 safeguarded Bay. The reintroduction of red woods in peril that came to squirrels and pine martens is the #iwill campaign, which aims to boost volunteering and our notice, more than 200 2018 finally brought the part of the mix, and the five- social action among youngsters aged 10 to 20, and together cases, while 30,000 supporters news the Trust and our year plan will put communities we’ll plant a quarter of a million trees across former coalmining joined our fight against the tireless campaigners have at the heart of things. It’s land, creating a £5 million haven for nature, tranquility and devastation threatened by HS2. spent two decades fighting hoped the project will spark community. Money is already in the bag to buy the first for, when England’s most quarter of the site, largely thanks to a big cash injection from new nature-based businesses OCT precious woods and trees and help others to diversify, In living colour the Veolia Environmental Trust and Pears Foundation, while the were awarded stringent new invigorating not just the 29 Hertfordshire’s Tring #iwill Fund is giving £1.5 million to tee up our work with young This is what the Trust invested planning protections. Ancient ecological health of Mid-Wales, Park was once the people there. in generating funds last year, and every £1 of that raised woods are the UK’s most but the local economy too. stronghold of Walter Rothschild, species-rich terrestrial habitats titan of Edwardian naturalism. £3.91 in return. Of every £1 in – yet more than 1,000 of Today it is being restored to income we accrued, we spent 80p on our direct charitable these sanctuaries have been its former pomp by the Trust, objectives – 5p above our target. threatened by development I think what’s really and we’re bringing alive Tring’s over the last decade. In July, important with Summit story with imaginative events new government guidance to Sea is the sense of and interpretation – none more Total expenditure: granted these sites equal ownership. It’s not just showstopping than October’s status with listed Festival of Light, when the park’s £49.9 million buildings and ancient to do with wildlife or magnificent lime trees glow red, We purposely spent £5.3 million monuments – and the environment, it’s orange and yellow. Last year’s more than our income in 2018, the icing on the very much to do with extravaganza attracted 1,930 dipping into financial reserves to cake, ancient and the human ecology, and revellers. A month earlier, Tring advance our work. Our amazing volunteers contributed 275,000 veteran trees got Park became our third site to win community, and culture. hours, worth around £2.3 million. the protection they its laurels as a VisitEngland Quality Huw Denman, Thank you to every one of them.

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6 ANNUAL REVIEW 2018 ANNUAL REVIEW 2018 7 Iliffe Family Charitable Trust ShareGift Heritage Lottery Fund Ingram Trust Simon Gibson Charitable National Forest Company Thank you! J & JR Wilson Charitable Trust Natural England Trust Spear Charitable Trust Natural Resources Wales – Here is the roll call of organisations and individuals who supported the Trust John Horseman Trust Tullis Russell Environmental Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru to the tune of £5,000 or more in 2018. We couldn’t have done it without you... John Salmon Trust Education Limited Northern Ireland Environment Jordan Charitable Agency Partners Oakland Care Charitable trusts Foundation Landfill Pears #iwill Fund Oldrid & Co Ltd Alta Advisers Ltd Banister Trust JP Marland Charitable Trust Communities Fund Pears Foundation; Pearson Plc Asendia UK Ltd Beryl Thomas Animal Langdale Trust Biffa Award The National Lottery Players of People’s Postcode AXA UK PLC Welfare Trust Lund Trust, a charitable fund Lancashire Environmental Community Fund and Lottery Bestway Cash & Carry Ltd Cadogan Charity of Lisbet Rausing and Fund Department for Digital, Premier Foods Bettys & Taylors of Calleva Foundation Peter Baldwin The Veolia Environmental Culture, Media & Sport. Premier Paper Group Harrogate Ltd Carter Conservation Trust Moto in the Community Trust Trust Pears Foundation PUR Projet Charities Advisory Trust Charles Michael Holloway Mr THN Allen Charitable Trust WREN Rural Payment Agencies Sainsbury’s CNG Ltd Charitable Trust Mushroom Trust Scottish Government Rural Selfridges & Co Disney Store Ltd Cobalt Trust National Arbor Day Grants Payments and Inspections Shanly Homes Ltd Foundation Directorate Dorset Cereals David Webster Charitable Armed Forces Covenant Shoosmiths LLP Northwick Trust Scottish Natural Heritage DoubleTree by Hilton Trust Fund Trust Sofidel UK Limited Oglesby Charitable Trust Snowdonia National Park Epson (UK) Ltd D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Defra The Bodyshop International Pauline Meredith Charitable Welsh Assembly Government Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Edward and Sally Benthall Department of Agriculture Ltd Trust Rural Payments/Cronfa Eurostove Limited Charitable Trust and Rural Development The Co-operative Bank Peacock Charitable Trust Datblygu Gwledig Forest of Marston Vale Enrico de Lucis Charitable Environment Agency TK Maxx Revere Charitable Trust Forthglade Natural Pet Food Trust Forestry Commission Llywodraeth Cymru Unilever UK Ltd River Farm Foundation Golden Charter Erach & Roshan Sadri Greater London Authority Ventient Energy GVA Foundation Rothera Family Charitable Viridian Nutrition Hotel Chocolat Faslane Trust Trust Wesleyan Assurance Society Hunter Stoves Ltd Fieldrose Charitable Trust Rothschild Foundation Wessex Water IKEA Ltd Finderman Charitable Trust Samworth Foundation Wicked London Production Intertissue Limited Gosling Foundation Scott (Eredine) Charitable Ltd Investec Asset Management Hugh Fraser Foundation Trust Joules Ltd Wilko Ltd Kernow Coatings Ltd Lakeland Limited Marks and Spencer plc National Trust Nationwide Building Society Next plc

Mountain ambition Late in 2018 the Trust laid plans to buy spectacular Ben STEVE CARTER STEVE Shieldaig, on the Torridon coast, a paradise of precious 8 ANNUAL REVIEW 2018 Caledonian pinewoods. Miss B Croshaw Mr MI Fenton Mrs VMH Holt Dr MC MacLeod Mr CW Reid Mr EW Taylor Gifts in wills kindly Mr JH Crowfoot Mrs PB Field Ms JFE Hopkins Mrs JG Maitland Miss MA Richmond Ms CM Thomas left to the Trust in 2018 Ms MP Cruft Mrs BC Finch Mr AJ Horne Mr MCD Malone Mr P Robson Mrs BM Thompson Mrs SP Cull Mrs DJ Fisher Mr E Hough Mr RD Mann Mrs PAV Roderick Dr GN Thorne Miss PM Abbott Ms I Brown Mr DM Cundy Miss BM Fisher Mr KB Hubbard Lady MEN Marriott Miss BMB Russell Miss L Tidey Mr R Adcock Mrs DI Brown Mrs B Davey Miss B Foote Miss NM Hunnam Miss LE Matthews Ms PV Rutter Mr SJ Tithecott Dr I Alexander Miss PJ Buckley Mrs M Davidson Ms LM Ford Miss KE Ireland Mr JE Matthews Mrs S Ryan Miss VA Towler Mr JH Andrew Miss IJ Bull Mr RS Davidson Mr BF Frost Mr S Jackson Miss MJ Mayell Mrs MM Salisbury Mr RA Tritton Ms C Archer Mrs ME Bullwinkle Ms GML Davis Miss JE Gamble Ms L Jeffery Miss CL McCree Miss MB Sell Miss JP Trower Mrs ATA Arkell Mr ML Cadman Miss DE Davis Dr GM Gandy Mrs M Jones Miss J Meikle Miss OM Senior Miss PB Trower Miss RN Arnot Mrs JT Caine Mr MJ Dawes Mr DA Garnett Mrs RN Kellett Ms BM Mitchell Mr DMH Shaw Mr C Turner Mrs BP Baker Mrs JIM Campbell Mrs AM Dawson Mr A Gibbs Mrs NM Kelly Ms PA Moffatt Ms D Short Miss P Underwood Mr JR Baker Mr G Canti Miss L Denby Miss EC Gilberthorpe Mrs EH Kenyon Mrs MP Moore Mr GE Silberman Mr JM Wadey Miss IE Ball Miss AP Cantley Mr J Devonshire Ms DM Gill Mrs SML Kibble Mr AE Mussett Ms MR Skinner Miss JED Wallis Mrs PM Barr Miss JE Carder Mr RA Dewhurst Mrs P Gillie Mr EJF Kirk Mrs A Myant Mr F Sloan Mrs M Watson Mr RDE Basden Mr R Chadney Miss CD Dittrich Mr AD Gillitt Ms SE Kirk-Watts Mrs JE Nairn Mr MR Smith Miss SM Welford Miss JA Bayes Mrs CML Chapman Miss AM Dixon Mrs M Grant Mr MG Knight Mrs E Neal Miss WM Smith Miss AC Western Mrs DC Beech Ms SM Chesterman Mrs JO Dixon Mr C Gray Ms M Lamputt Mrs I Newington Miss HD Spankie Mr AH Wicks Mr GR Bellerby Ms KA Clapp Mr B Dowd Miss RG Groom Mrs CM Lancaster Mr NJH Ninnim Miss WM Spilman Mrs DJ Wilder Ms PM Belton Mrs JC Clark Mrs BM Down Mrs DCRC Groves Miss DL Lane Mr AJW Paddon Miss SM Squance Miss LR Wilkinson Mrs EM Bennett Mrs HM Clayton Ms FL Dumpleton Mrs BA Grubb Ms MJ Lavelle Mrs SL Parnell Mr DL Stebbings Mrs NA Wilkinson Miss ME Bennett Mr B Cole Mr ND Earthy Mrs JL Harding Mr DR Leeming Mr P Parratt Mr GP Stevens Mr DW Williams Mrs HE Bolton Mr CL Comley Ms VJ Edison Mrs MF Harley Ms SU Levi Mrs ES Paterson Mrs S Stirling Mr AA Wingfield Mr RC Booth Mrs HM Cooper Ms AG Edmonds Mr REJ Harper Mr HS Lewis Mr G Patston-Lilley Miss H Stock Mrs AD Wordsworth Mr NM Braun Mr GJ Cooper Mr JG Elrick Mrs B Harris Mrs CJ Lewsey Miss HM Philpott Mr AH Stokes Dr EP Wyatt Miss M Breakell Mr JE Cousin Mrs IA English Ms SF Harry Miss J Lindsey Miss JM Pollard Mr PB Stone Mr RA Wyld Mr TT Broomhall Mrs S Cowan Ms BPM Evans Mrs AE Hart Mr M Lister Mr AC Powell Mr ME Stone Mr R Wynn-Davies Mrs SM Brown Mrs G Craze Ms EM Fairhead Mr DJ Hassall Miss PA Littlewood Mr CGT Prince Mr CGA Storey Mr JG Brown Ms JA Crick Mr DJ Fairhurst Miss K Head Mr A Loasby Mrs HP Rawlins Mr MR Tatham Mr RG Crosby Mrs ACB Mrs MBY Henry Mr MJ Longstaffe Mr DJJ Read Fairweather Ms M Hockley Mr K Lowcock Mr JH Lucas Mr GJ Machin

Time capsule

Beautiful Avoncliff Wood, east WTML/PHIL FORMBY of Bath, was saved for nature at the end of 2018, thanks to gifts kindly left to the Trust in wills and a successful £355,000 public appeal. To find out more about gifts in ANNUAL REVIEW 2018 11 wills visit legacies.org.uk Looking forward After a terrific year, the future shines brighter than ever £47 million for the Trust. Here’s just a sample of what’s in store That’s what we need to raise in 2019 to make our ambitious We’ll plant We’ll take on programme for more trees more land woods, trees and The Trust is on In 2018 the wildlife a reality. a mission to get Trust bought Please contribute a cool 64 million 211 hectares of if you can: saplings planted land to extend woodlandtrust.org. nationwide by our estate. That uk/donate. 2025 – one for was well below every person in the our 700 hectare Our promise to you UK. In 2019 alone we aim to get target – but only because so many We are committed 4.5 million in the ground, a leap of big acquisitions were in the works. to fundraising and more than a third on 2018. That As 2019 dawned, we’d already got communicating in an will include planting 1.6 million trees our eye on sites amounting to ten honest, transparent outside woods – with schools and times that figure, a sensational 2,163 way. We pride communities, in towns and on hectares – and when you read this ourselves on being farms, and through our booming we’ll have set the seal on the thrilling respectful and Woodland Trust shop. We want purchase of our first mountain, £1.6 responsible with to create 2,190 hectares of new million Ben Shieldaig in the West your data and how woodland too, 27% up on last year. Highlands, home to golden eagles, we treat you: We hope that will include our biggest otters and rock-hopper beetles. Here woodlandtrust.org. ever new wood in Wales: 120,000 we plan to transform 1,500 hectares uk/promise. trees on former pastureland in of scenic ben and glen, reinvigorating Our audited Annual Neath, right on the doorstep of a ancient Caledonian pinewoods and Report & Accounts sixth of the Welsh population. rare Scottish rainforest. are available at woodlandtrust.org.uk. We’ll restore We’ll shout The Woodland Trust, Kempton Way, Grantham, more woods even louder Lincolnshire, NG31 6LL; 0330 2018 saw the 2018 saw some 333 3300; woodlandtrust. final reckoning org.uk; supporters@ remarkable wins woodlandtrust.org.uk. in our four-year for the Trust on The Woodland Trust logo mega-project to the political stage. is a registered trademark. restore miles of They included Registered in England number 1982873. The ancient woodland, vital new planning Woodland Trust is a charity launched with £1.9 safeguards for ancient registered in England and Wales no. 294344 and in million from the Heritage Lottery woods and trees (see p6), and the Scotland Fund. Our goal was to convert shady Government’s commitment to no. SC038885. A non-profit- 20th-century conifer plantations making company limited by introduce a new Environment Bill, guarantee. 12654 03/19 back to sun-dappled, biodiverse the first in over two decades, to broadleaf, and altogether we’ve ensure the UK maintains protections wrestled 15,203 hectares of habitat as we leave the EU. In 2019 we’ll be back on the road to health, kick- lobbying hard to secure the promised starting the revival of 11% of the ‘public money for public goods’ nation’s degraded woodland canopy. approach to land subsidies in the We plan to have a further 2,000 Westminster Agriculture Bill. That hectares committed to restoration work could see us piloting pioneering by the end of 2019, and we’ll also funding mechanisms in our new 17069900396 explore new funding and support Northern Forest (p5), where we aim mechanisms to help land managers to plant at least 175,000 saplings in

IMAGES: WTML/MARK ZYTYNSKI, JUDITH PARRY, DAVID WHITAKER DAVID JUDITH PARRY, ZYTYNSKI, WTML/MARK IMAGES: get to work on the ground. the autumn/winter season.

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