Regional Woodland Creation Grants
Our local Woodland Creation Partners offer a wide range of highly competitive funding, across specific regional catchment areas in England. These grants are available for various types of tree planting projects including agroforestry. Visit your local Woodland Creation Partner’s website to learn more about their grant offering and start your tree planting journey.
Check if your land is located within one of the catchment areas.
Woodland Creation Partners
England’s Community Forests
England’s Community Forests offer free expert advice, support and funding to landowners interested in planting new woodland. Our experienced Woodland Creation Officers, based at 15 Community Forests across the country, will work with you from your first enquiry right through to delivery, and long-term management of your woodland. Our flexible grants support a range of woodland creation schemes, cover up to 100% of costs and include up to 15 years maintenance payments to ensure your planting thrives.
Forest for Cornwall
Forest for Cornwall promotes tree, hedgerow and agroforestry planting across Cornwall. Offering expert advice and flexible funding packages to support landowners with any size of tree planting projects from initial planning and design, to securing funding. Our grants can provide up to 100% of the capital costs of tree planting and an ongoing maintenance budget.
Great Northumberland Forest
The Great Northumberland Forest promotes tree, hedgerow and agroforestry planting across Northumberland. We offer expert advice and flexible funding packages to support landowners with any size of tree planting projects from initial planning and design, to securing funding and regulatory approval. Our direct grants can provide 100% of the capital costs of tree planting.
The National Forest
With generous grants, advice and support for tree planting, forest creation, agroforestry and habitat management in the Midlands, the team at the National Forest can help you realise the future potential of your land. Available to landowners within the 200 square miles of the National Forest, grant schemes offer funding to cover design, planning and up to 100% of implementation and maintenance costs, with schemes from 0.25 hectares.
The Northern Forest
Working together, the Woodland Trust, the Community Forest Trust and four of England’s Community Forests in the north of England – The Mersey Forest, City of Trees (Greater Manchester), the White Rose Forest and Humber Forest – are bringing the Northern Forest to life. With funding from the government’s Nature for Climate Fund, you can secure up to 100% of the capital costs; including site surveys, woodland design, planning, creation, a generous maintenance budget and guidance from our expert advisers.
Woodland Creation Partner catchment areas
Woodland Creation Partner Catchment Areas
England’s Community Forests
Fifteen forests located across England broadly covering:
- Bedfordshire
- Swindon
- West Nottinghamshire
- Merseyside and Cheshire
- Greater Manchester
- Bristol, Bath and the West of England
- Staffordshire and the West Midlands
- Hull, East Yorkshire, and North Lincolnshire
- East London and South West Essex
- Leeds City Region and North and West Yorkshire
- Plymouth and South Devon
- Newcastle, Gateshead, North and South Tyneside, Sunderland, and Durham
- Cumbria
- Tees Valley
- Derbyshire
Forest for Cornwall
Covering the county of Cornwall.
Great Northumberland Forest
Covering Northumberland.
National Forest
Covering 200 square miles of the Midlands, spanning parts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire.
The Northern Forest
Covering 10,000 square miles from Liverpool and Chester to Hull, through Manchester, Salford, Bradford, Leeds and Sheffield, as well as Lancashire, much of North Yorkshire and parts of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.