Trees for Cities

Love trees? 💚 Follow us @treesforcities on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn & WeAre8 for fun, inspiring and educational green content all about urban trees and the benefits they bring! 🌳🌳🌳

Can birds thrive well in cities? Yes! 🏡 Urban green spaces can provide good nesting habitats for birds due to reduced danger from predators and from having favourable homes for shrub nesters like sparrows and robins 🐦

How do trees help birds thrive? 🐦 Birds rely on trees to find food and shelter for themselves and their young. 🌳 Planting and maintaining a healthy abundance of trees is crucial for sustaining vibrant and thriving bird populations.

🎆 New year means new resolutions so… what’s your wish for trees in 2025? 🌳 Trees provide us with endless benefits all year round. Let’s work together to keep planting and protecting trees now and in the future!

Happy New Year 💚 Let’s plant more trees together 🌱

🔊 Catch our CEO Kate Sheldon on Radio @bbc5live for a fantastic phone-in, celebrating urban trees and featuring people's treasured tree stories. 🌳 Kate discusses how Trees for Cities gets people to care about trees and more, from 1 hour 45 mins in: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Listen to the whole show for excellent insights from @QasaAlom, Tony Kirkham and Vicky Allan on the healing nature of trees, the challenges they face, and some of the nation's favourites.

🎄 Looking for a fun story to tell at Christmas dinner? Here's one for you about mistletoe! Did you know that mistletoe is actually a parasitic plant that can often spell bad news for its host tree? 👉 Find out more: treesforcities.org/stories/going-…

We're honoured to have been recognised and invited to the Mercy4Mankind Awards Reception, hosted by @UKMuslimYouth at the House of Commons. 💚 We were thrilled to receive a Recognition Award for 'Outstanding Services to Community' - thank you! treesforcities.org/stories/recogn…

We were thrilled to speak on Rare Earth about our Trees in School project at @ElthorneHighSch 🌳 🏫 Students from the school's eco-team had the opportunity to share their experiences greening their school! Hear what they had to say from 37:56 – 44:23 below 👇

Today, we had an incredible opportunity to speak on @BBCRadio4's Rare Earth! The programme was about celebrating and preserving urban trees, where we were featured talking about our Trees in School project at @ElthorneHighSch. Listen from 37:56 – 44:23: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

@millbankgardens Looks so good! We're excited to see all the produce the students will grow 🌱

We are thrilled with our new healthy garden spaces, adding extra greenery to our large playground! 🌱🍃 It was a pleasure to work with @TreesforCities

@SJLCARDIFF @GrowCardiff @CSC_Wellbeing Congratulations! Well done for looking after your Edible Playground 🥳💚

Da iawn to our Gardener of the term. He works so hard in our #edibleplayground every week! Diolch yn fawr iawn! @TreesforCities @GrowCardiff #oneplanetcardiff @CSC_Wellbeing

We'll be speaking shortly live on Rare Earth! 🎄Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

We're going to be live on @BBCRadio4's Rare Earth feature at 12pm TODAY! 🌳The programme will be about urban trees where you'll hear from our Senior Engagement Manager, Louise as well as staff and students from @ElthorneHighSch's incredible eco-team. Don't miss out ‼️

From rounding off our 30th anniversary celebrations with a mass community planting day 🌳 to our biggest fundraising campaign to date - we've had a busy few weeks! Find out what we got up to: treesforcities.org/stories/nation… (photos from our planting day at Ashburton Playing Fields 😉)

🌱Hainault Recreation Ground was identified as a key planting opportunity to contribute towards the London Tree Ring. We planted over 2500 tree whips on November 16th, adding to the trees we planted in the same area over five years ago! Find out more: treesforcities.org/stories/london…

🌳 This planting season, we have been contributing towards the London Tree Ring, a vision for driving the creation of more woodland around our capital. Many thanks to our partners @BupaUK who support this project, alongside @RedbridgeLive and @DoMoreRed. youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0Lwr…