Stories
Check out our latest news, case studies and interviews, as well as educational pieces on all things urban trees.
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Expert Tree Watering Tips
7 July 2025
Our Urban Forest team are out watering our newly planted trees to help get them through the summer months, so we asked them for their expert watering advice.
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Mini Documentary: Growing a Community in Tower Hamlets Estate
3 July 2025
We headed over to East London with TV Presenter Qasa Alom to visit a project we helped transform over a decade ago to see what the space looked 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!
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Hartlepool project to address town-wide low tree cover
1 April 2025
Tree Equity for Hartlepool will help combat the town's low canopy cover which is well below the national average.
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Best places to see urban blossom in the UK
25 March 2025
Looking to enjoy cherry blossom this spring? Check out our ever-growing UK-wide guide on where to see urban blooms.
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How to create a woodland
20 March 2025
What goes into designing a brand new woodland? Volunteers Charlene and Kelsey wondered exactly this, so we invited them to interview our Urban Forest experts.
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Interview with Urban Forest Director Suzanne
7 March 2025
To mark International Women’s Day, Suzanne Simmons, Urban Forest Director at Trees for Cities, shares how far the forestry sector has come, but why there is more work to be done.
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Interview with Youth Programme Manager Megan
7 March 2025
In honour of International Women’s Day, HortWeek speaks to our Youth Programme Manager, Megan Akerman, on how we're engaging young people with the urban forestry sector.
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27 New UK Tree Cities of the World
4 March 2025
A record number of UK towns and cities have been awarded Tree Cities of the World status for their leading work in urban forestry.