ANNUAL REVIEW 2008

The site of
Heartwood Forest
England’s largest new native forest
 2008 was a year of exciting new ventures.
We embarked on several ambitious journeys to help
protect, restore, create and involve more people in trees
and woods than ever before. I hope you will be inspired
by our stories.
In one of our most visionary projects ever, with the help
of many others, we acquired over 300 hectares (741
acres) in Southeast England, where we will create England’s largest continuous
new native forest – Heartwood.
The land stretches almost as far as the eye can see, and it is only by working
at this scale that we can hope to help woodland and wildlife combat its many
challenges, such as climate change. Fundraising for Heartwood will remain a
priority in 2009 and onwards.
But, you don’t need to be a large landowner to create woodland. We want to
inspire everyone to consider planting – a wood, small copse, or even a single
tree. So in 2008, we helped landowners to plant 90,000 new native trees and
create 85 hectares (210 acres) of new woodland on their own sites. Interest
in the scheme was such that we could have planted five times this much if we
had had more funding.
We also launched WoodWatch to make it even easier for people to take
action to save trees and woods near them and continued to work tirelessly
to protect ancient trees and woods ourselves, being successful in 81 per cent
of completed cases.
When we launched Tree For All back in 2004 we set out to help a million
children plant a tree. It seemed ambitious back then but in 2008, we were
pleased to hit this target ahead of schedule. We couldn’t have done this
without the help of many other organisations, landowners and volunteers. In
2008, volunteers gave us an amazing 230,000 hours of their precious time.
I also want to thank all of our members and other supporters. We were
particularly indebted in 2008 to those who left us a gift in their will. Legacies
were key in achieving a record breaking income of almost £30 million.
This gives us the confidence to keep investing in woods and trees. The future
is exciting and challenging, but protecting woods and trees absolutely must be
a priority for everyone.

People enjoying a
guided walk at
Heartwood Forest
Sue Holden, Chief executive WTPL/Paul Hetherington

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CONTENTS
04 Protection
06 Restoration
08 Creation
10 Participation
12 Places for nature
14 Natural partners
16 Through the seasons
18 Annual accounts
19 Thank you
 This result is fantastic.
Just brilliant!
Neil Coleman, chairman of the Pencoedtre Bluebells campaign group
PROTECTING
Ancient woodland is our equivalent of the rainforest;
it supports more rare and threatened species than
any other UK habitat and is irreplaceable.

Launched in March 2008, WoodWatch makes it even easier for

people to help save trees and woods under threat near them. It
provides information on how to campaign locally and navigate the
planning system. Woodwatch gives us many extra eyes and ears,
equipping others to tell us about threats to ancient trees and woods
and to act upon these themselves.Visit woodwatch.org.uk
Our success in saving threatened ancient woods continued with 81
per cent of completed cases positively resolved in 2008. Pencoedtre in
the Vale of Glamorgan,Wales, is a rich ancient woodland with rare plant
communities.We played a major part in getting planning permission for WoodWatch demonstration
against the Hastings to Bexhill
housing and industrial units refused in January 2008.
Link Road
Other victories included Coed Cwm Slade near Wenvoe, also in
Wales, where a concrete conglomerate withdrew an application to lay a
conveyor belt through its heart. At Pottishaw Farm in West Lothian,
Scotland an ancient wood was saved from transformation into a garden
centre, crematorium and pet cemetery.
We continued to fight the proposed new Aberdeen bypass which
threatens 15 ancient woods, and BAA’s application to build a second
runway at Stansted, which would destroy another six.
And, to help us reach more people than ever before, we increased our
use of online communications.A Stansted campaign video on YouTube An ancient tree at Windsor
attracted 4,500 viewers helping the number of objections to the Great Park and forest

runway to double.
Our efforts to increase protection for ancient trees also stepped up a
gear as we lobbied for amendments to the European Habitats
Directive and planning policy across the UK.
We gained the support of many MPs with this campaign, including
Alun Michael who won a Charity Champion award on the ePolitix
website for his efforts on planning and tree protection legislation. We
also held a parliamentary reception ‘Celebrating ancient trees’ Opposite: Pencoedtre Wood,
Wales
Vale of Glamorgan Council
addressed by planning minster, Parmjit Dhanda.
Find out more at woodlandtrust.org.uk/campaigns Above: Woodland Trust Picture
Library
WTPL/Ted Green

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RESTORING
Across the UK ancient woods, damaged by the planting of
non-native conifers, are in urgent need of restoration before
they lose their unique natural features forever.

Working in partnership with other landowners and managers, we

brought another 3,400 hectares (8,400 acres) of the UK’s ancient
woodland into active restoration in 2008. The gradual removal of
non-native conifer trees enables the fragile ancient woodland flora to
see daylight again.
Ambitious projects improving valuable archaeological and historical
features were completed at three Trust woods in 2008. Planted conifers
were sensitively removed from an area covering one of the largest
ancient hillforts in England at Credenhill Park Wood in Herefordshire.
Nearly £1 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund enabled the highly
Credenhill Park Wood, after
restoration work had taken place specialised restoration of unique features at Hackfall in NorthYorkshire.
at the hillfort In partnership with the Hackfall Trust, many impressive buildings were
repaired including Mowbray Castle, a grand 18th century folly.
At Little Doward in the Wye Valley, we carefully removed over two
thousand tonnes of conifers, using special low-impact equipment. This
ensured that the features of an ancient hill fort, a Scheduled Ancient
Monument, were protected. The dramatic hillfort is now visible for all
to see.
Through partnerships like the Scottish Forest Alliance (SFA),
supported by BP, we also worked on a grand scale to make Scotland’s
most vulnerable native woods more robust and improve access for
people. In 2008, this included tree planting that increased the size of one
Coed Aber Atro, restored as part of the UK’s largest native woodland creation projects, The Great
of the Meirionnydd Oakwoods Trossachs Forest.
Habitat Project
In a separate scheme, boosted by another generous Heritage Lottery
Fund grant, we took part in work to engage people, improve biodiversity
Opposite: Top: Restoration
and enhance the cultural heritage of the Ochils, near Stirling.
WTPL/Tom Curtis
Bottom left: Mowbray
Also, in Edinburgh and the Lothians, we started working with partners
Castle, Hackfall to re-establish green corridors and improve access through the
WTPL/Ian Gilkison
Middle right: Geordie’s Edinburgh Forest Habitat Network Partnership.
Wood
WTPL/Niall Benvie And we celebrated the successful completion of the Meirionnydd
Bottom right: Little
Doward Woods Oakwoods Project where we joined with others to restore some of
WTPL the best areas of Atlantic oak wood in Europe. This three year project
Above: WTPL/Jeremy Evans has benefited 58 woods across Wales covering 1710 hectares (about
WTPL/Rory Francis 4,225 acres).

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An unrestored ancient woodland A restored ancient woodland

…regenerating
native woodland
and creating a
legacy designed
to span two
centuries.
The Scottish Forest Alliance
 Our new schemes
will help more
people experience
the joy of creating
a wood of their
own.
James Lonsdale, Head of Woodland Creation
CREATING
The UK is one of the least wooded places in Europe, yet
we know from our own tree planting projects that in just
12 years new native woods can flourish with wildlife.

We want to see the UK’s native woodland cover doubled by 2050. At

the end of 2008 with the support of numerous funders, we acquired
over 300 hectares (741 acres) of land in Hertfordshire where we are
creating Heartwood Forest. Planting at the site is scheduled to begin
during the 09/10 season. Eventually it will become England’s largest
continuous new native forest, bringing immeasurable benefits to
people and wildlife.
We also offered landowners in England and Wales the chance to create
their own woods with the launch of a pilot scheme in 2008.Thanks to
various funders, including some legacies, it will lead to 90,000 native trees
being planted creating 85 hectares (210 acres) of new woodland. In 2009, Taking part in our Tree For All
a new version of the scheme called MOREwoods was launched. project at Victory Wood

The final planting of 90,000 trees at Victory Wood in Kent was

celebrated in 2008. This was our flagship Trafalgar Wood site, originally
created to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in
2005. Around 10,000 of these trees were planted by the public and we
hope that about 22,000 more will establish through natural regeneration.
Like much of our planting, the new woodland areas offer wildlife benefits
across a vast landscape, and link together existing ancient woods which
are part of the very important Blean Woods complex.
As part of the Scottish Forest Alliance, at Geordie’s Wood in
Clackmannanshire we planted the last of one and a half million new Clements Wood, County Antrim,
a haven for wildlife
trees across our three Glen Devon sites.These too will offer landscape
scale benefits to people and wildlife.
We also celebrated two of our Northern Ireland sites being declared
Opposite: Top:Tree planting at
Local Nature Reserves in 2008 – Monkstown Wood and Clements Geordie’s Wood, Glen
Devon
WTPL/Niall Benvie
Wood, both in County Antrim. Now flourishing with wildlife, they were
originally woodland creation sites planted by local people to celebrate Middle left:Wood anemone,
one of the wonderful
the Millennium through our Woods on your Doorstep project. species found at Monkstown
and Clements Woods
Importantly in November 2008, Northern Ireland saw an Assembly WTPL/Steven Kind
Bottom left: Clements Wood
motion passed with all party support, calling on the Minister for WTPL/Gregor Fulton
Agriculture to detail strategies for doubling the Province’s woodland Bottom right: Monkstown
Wood
cover in the next 50 years. WTPL/Rosanna Ballentine

Above: WTPL/Nick Cobbing

WTPL/Gregor Fulton

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PARTICIPATING
People are an essential part of protecting nature and
we want to inspire everyone, especially children, to
experience the joy and value of trees and woods.
Winning entry for our Nature
Detectives’ art competition from
Woodfield Infants School
Nikki Williams measuring an
ancient tree with the help of a
knitted scarf
Opposite: Emily Harris, the millionth
child to participate in our
Tree For All campaign
WTPL/Chris Booth
Above: Woodfield Infants School
WTPL
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Our young ‘nature detectives’ got the year off to a record start by
creating over 4,500 woodland scenes for a national art competition.The
exclusive prize – an art master class with natural history illustrator
Joanne Glover – was won by a school in Shrewsbury.
Meanwhile online, the millionth activity sheet was downloaded from the
Nature Detectives website by a childminder and used to spot wildlife in
the gardens of Birmingham. By the end of the year, there were 12,500
children, teachers and leaders in our new kids’ club, all busy outside
doing their weekly nature challenges. For more details visit
naturedetectives.org.uk
At the beginning of the year, we also ran a series of events and activities
to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Robert Marsham
‘founding father of phenology’. This tied in with our Nature’s
Calendar survey, which is based on the science of phenology. It involves
thousands of volunteers monitoring how our native wildlife is affected
by climate change. For more details visit naturescalendar.org.uk
In May, we launched our Summer of Hugs at the Hay Literary Festival,
as part of our Ancient Tree Hunt project. It aims to record 100,000
ancient, veteran and notable trees by encouraging volunteers across the
UK to find and ‘hug’ them. Hugging helps determine their girth and so
their age.
We also released a knitting pattern for a new scarf to enable people to
measure trees more easily. By the end of September, 50,000 people had
downloaded a pattern. Since the project started over 6,000 people have
recorded a tree at AncientTreeHunt.org.uk
On 25 November, Emily Morris, aged 10, became the millionth child to
plant a tree since our Tree For All campaign began.We were delighted
to reach this milestone even earlier than planned. The project originally
set out to give one million children the unforgettable experience of
planting a tree, but with the target achieved, we have set our sights on
the next million.
For more details visit woodlandtrust.org.uk/takepart
 It was such a
surprise to be the
millionth child.
I love tree planting
and nature.
Emily Harris aged 10 from Durham

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PLACES FOR NATURE
In 2008, we acquired another 11 sites covering over 565 hectares
(1,396 acres); places where nature will thrive under our protection.
Many of these are new woodland creation sites which will help link 3
4
and extend ancient woods, act as a ‘buffer zone’ to shield them from
surrounding land use and provide more space for wildlife and places
for people to enjoy.
1 2

1 Heartwood Forest, Hertfordshire

Bluebells at Heartwood Forest
Red kite – one of the species which
may benefit from the new forest
When we heard about over 300 hectares (741 acres) of
land becoming available to buy near Sandridge, just a few
miles north of St Albans in the South East of England, we
knew the potential it offered was phenomenal.
We began negotiations which had to be shrouded in
secrecy.When we launched our largest ever appeal in May
2008 the area was enigmatically referred to as ‘Mystery
Site X’.
Despite this, the response from our members was
incredible with nearly £1 million raised from the first
appeal.With these funds boosted by grants and corporate
support, we had made the site ours by October 2008.
It has now been named Heartwood Forest and, though
still in the fundraising phase, we’re moving ahead with our
ambitious plans to plant 600,000 trees.
With the help of people everywhere, we will create
England’s largest continuous new native forest.
Heartwood Forest will be transformed into a vast native
woodland, flourishing with wildlife. With a population of
over two million people living within 15 miles, it offers a
huge opportunity to connect more people with nature.

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2 Elmstead Market, Essex
Another successful public appeal in 2008 resulted in the purchase of
37 hectares (91 acres) of prime planting land at Elmstead Market,
just three miles from the centre of Colchester. The site already
contains pockets of ancient woodland and we want to extend the
woodland area by planting 55,000 native trees and create a
mosaic of other habitats.
Elmstead Market
Wide stretches of grassland, shrubby areas and wildlife corridors will
encourage a great variety of species and give the many people living
nearby easy access to nature.

3 Burntollet Wood, Londonderry

Beautifully set on the banks of the Burntollet River, lies one of the
Trust’s biggest ever acquisitions in Northern Ireland. At 24
hectares (59 acres), Burntollet Wood’s proximity to Ness Country
Park, an Area of Special Scientific Interest, and just south east of the
city of Londonderry, makes it an absolute gem.
If we can raise the funds, we will plant over 36,000 native trees to Red squirrel
provide more woodland habitat for nearby wildlife, like buzzards,
otters, pygmy shrews and endangered red squirrels, species that
are already living nearby just waiting to move in.

4 Low Burnhall, County Durham

Low Burnhall is just two miles from the city of Durham with a
frontage along the banks of the River Wear.
Funding permitting, we will plant 80,000 trees here and create
woodland and wildflower meadows.The 68-hectare (167-acre) site
lies just across the river from a wildlife-rich wood and wetland and
contains its own fragments of ancient woodland. It has the potential
to be the perfect place for wildlife and walkers to escape city life. Low Burnhall

We are still appealing for funds to create and care for all of
these sites.To help please visit woodlandtrust.org.uk/appeals
Photographs:
WTPL/Paul Hetherington
WTPL/Dave Foker
WTPL/Aerial Close-up Photography
WTPL/Pete Holmes
WTPL/Sara Lyons

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NATURAL PARTNERS
Once again, our business partnerships contributed important funds for our
work in 2008, increased awareness of the Trust and encouraged their
customers to become involved with trees and woods.
Here are just a few examples:

In 2008, as part of IKEA’s Foot of Forest campaign, swipes of

IKEA’s Family Card raised enough funds for us to create three
million square feet of forest in the future.
Meanwhile, to mark the brand’s 25th birthday, Timotei’s
customers funded the creation of a further 10 hectares (25 acres)
filled with wild flowers and trees. By the spring of 2009 they had
blossomed into beautiful ‘Forests of Flowers’. Buyers of Ronseal’s
Eco-Range helped fund the planting of another 4,000 trees.
We also worked with three retailers to reduce the number of
plastic bags their customers used, at the same time raising funds to
Meadowhall Shopping Centre’s
reusable shopping bag plant trees. They all created special re-usable shopping bags and
donated a percentage of the profits to us; Meadowhall Shopping
Centre near Sheffield boosted our funds by charging for their jute
reusable bags; Lakeland shoppers raised £42,000 from reusable
shopping bag sales, and TK Maxx raised a fantastic £130,000 and
reduced plastic bag usage by 70 per cent.
Staff at Royal Mail were invited to work out their carbon
footprint. They could then make a tax free donation through their
payroll to plant trees with us and compensate for their carbon
emissions.This payroll giving scheme raised enough money to plant
nearly 7,000 trees equivalent to 1,366 tonnes of carbon.
Royal Mail goes greener Bookseller Green Metropolis hit an impressive landmark this
year, recycling its one millionth book, with the Woodland Trust
receiving a donation for each recycled book sold via the Internet.
And, our famous Christmas Card Recycling Scheme resulted in
over 73 million cards being recycled by the public at WHSmith,
Opposite: Clockwise from top left:
Hermione Norris Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks and Spencer.This will enable us to
advertising our Christmas plant around 17,000 trees.
Card Recycling Scheme;
IKEA staff plant a tree;
The Ronseal tree; For more on these and our other business partnerships
Barry Crow, MD of Green
Metropolis; visit woodlandtrust.org.uk/companies
A forest of flowers for
Timotei

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THROUGH THE SEASONS
IN THE SPRING

Cefn Ila near Usk received the first saplings from the PLANT! scheme.
Initiated by the Welsh Assembly Government, the scheme aims to
plant a tree for every child born or adopted in Wales after 1 January
2008 (around 35,000 per year) and is expected to lead to the creation
of 30 hectares (75 acres) of new woodland a year.
Northern Ireland politicians, including former First Minister, Rev
Dr Ian Paisley, and deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, accepted
our invitation in April to plant a new grove of birch, ash and oak trees
at Stormont, to show their commitment to increasing the Province’s
native woodland cover.
Later in the year, we took our Vision for woodland in Northern
Ireland to Stormont. This called on the Government to deliver on its
commitment to double the country’s woodland cover and asked for
greater protection for ancient woods and trees.

IN THE SUMMER

We unveiled our new report, Woodland actions for biodiversity and

their role in water management, highlighting the role trees can play
in soaking up carbon dioxide, reducing pollution and preventing
flooding when planted in the right places.
Our Green Tree Schools Award was launched, rewarding schools
with points every time they participated in one of our inspirational
learning events, such as tree planting, recycling or the YellowWoods
Challenge. The latter is supported by directory publisher, Yell, and
encourages school children to recycle Yellow pages, which, in turn,
raises money for the Trust to plant trees.
We were also awarded our third successive five-year Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate – an independent audit
assuring that our woods are well-managed.We were the first UK-wide
landowner to have all its woods certified by the FSC.

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Here’s a flavour of some other Trust activities
which occurred across the UK in 2008.

IN THE AUTUMN

Over 3,400 people took part in our Hainault Forest Festival in

Essex, which included speed-dating walks, fungi forays, silent walks and
a woodcraft week.
The Trust’s campaign team dressed up as trees from a mythical
‘Philipland Wood’ and descended upon London to highlight the threats
posed to woods by the aviation industry. The ‘trees’ visit to BAA’s
headquarters, was made into a short film shown on YouTube.
Irena Krasinska-Lobban was awarded our Volunteer of the Year
award for her amazing work on the Ancient Tree Hunt. One of our
many valued volunteers, Irena was singled out for identifying over 100
ancient trees and inspiring others through her role as a tree verifier.

IN THE WINTER

We celebrated the first anniversary of our Brede High Woods

acquisition in East Sussex, the Trust’s second largest site in England.
Restoration by gradual removal of planted non-native conifers is now
well underway, the management plan agreed and public access improved.
Young people from West Lothian proudly premiered five very different
films documenting their reactions and views on woods, as part of our
Branching Out in West Lothian (BOWL) project.
We issued our Scottish Challenges,which called on the government,
unitary authorities and Forestry Commission Scotland to protect and
restore the country’s woodland. It contained targets for doubling native
woodland cover in the country by 2050.
Our woodland dedication service continued to be popular and, by
the end of the Christmas period, over 13,000 people had dedicated trees
or areas of woodland.This raised almost £1 million towards our work.

Photographs: Planting at Cefn Ila WTPL; Politicians put down roots at Stormont: from left to right, deputy First Minister Martin
McGuinness, the Woodland Trust’s Patrick Cregg, former First Minister Rev Ian Paisley, and Speaker William Hay Michael Cooper;
Waterfall at Hackfall WTPL/Marshall Sisterton; Pupil receiving Green Tree Schools Award June Good; Children enjoying Hainault Forest
Festival WTPL/Tony Chadwick; Philipland Wood ‘trees’ protesting WTPL; Brede High Woods WTPL/Colin Varndell; Young people taking
part in the BOWL film project Helen Pugh

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ANNUAL ACCOUNTS
Another record breaking income of nearly £30 million was achieved in 2008, with the help of membership,
public donations, corporate support, charitable trusts and grants, and in particular legacies, the latter of
which made up almost 30 per cent of our total income.

INCOME £000s
10 11 01 | Legacies 8,210
09 02 | Public donations 5,151
08
07 03 | Membership 4,894
01
04 | Grants 3,129
06
05 | Companies, trusts and landfill tax 2,355
06 | Sponsorship income 2,253

05 07 | Investments and bank interest 1,294

08 | Merchandise and lotteries 1,001
09 | Woodland management income 700
04 10 | Other income 505
02
11 | Donated land 238

03 Total income 29,730

EXPENDITURE £000s

07 08 01 | Protection of ancient woodland 1,614

02 | Woodland conservation and
01
06 management 5,703

05 03 | Creation of new native woodland 11,233

02 04 | Access, recreation and education 5,721

Sub-total 24,271
05 | Fundraising 2,402
04 06 | Membership 1,973
07 | Governance 182
08 | Investment management 36

Sub-total 4,593

03 Total expenditure 28,864

Income less expenditure 866

The figures above were extracted from the full audited and unqualified accounts. Copies can be obtained from woodlandtrust.org.uk or by
applying to the Trust’s head office in Grantham.The annual accounts were approved on 20 May 2009 and have been submitted to the
Charity Commission, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, and Companies House. Colin Hall, chair of the finance committee.

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 We are grateful to the following organisations and individuals
THANK YOU who supported the Trust during 2008.

CHARITABLE Open Gate Manor Oak LANDFILL Mrs M T Barker Miss E D Kenrick
TRUSTS Patricia Routledge Marks & Spencer plc COMMUNITIES Mr P G Bedson John A C Kerridge
Charitable Trust Meadowhall Mr J M Benton Mrs S Kurzen
£1000 and over FUND
Paul Bassham Charitable Noble Foods Ltd Mr L E Beresford Mrs M G Langley
Alan Evans Memorial Trust Penguin Books Ltd £5,000 and over Mrs B Beveridge Mr G F Lawrence
Trust Peacock Charitable Trust PricewaterhouseCoopers Alpha Programmes Mrs J Bielby Miss L F Leake
Ann Brown Charitable PF Charitable Trust LLP managed by Miss A J Black Dr E M Le Breton
Settlement Richard Radcliffe Reed Elsevier Groundwork NI Mrs P M I Blackmore Ms S U Levi
Ash Yeo Charitable Trust Charitable Trust RM Education plc Angus Environmental Mr A K Blake Mrs J B Lewis
Banister Charitable Trust Risby Charitable Trust Ronseal Ltd Trust Miss R M Box Mrs P M Lundgren
Behrens Foundation Robert Clutterbuck Royal Mail Group Better Belfast Landfill Mr P B Brodribb Mrs M M F Lynn
Ben Koerner Charitable Trust Sainsbury’s Community Fund Miss H M Brookes Mrs E S D Lyon-Williams
Bergne-Coupland Charity Scouloudi Foundation SCA Recycling Ltd Biffaward Mrs N Broudin Mrs M J Markham
Brian Woolf Trust Serve All Trust T C Communications Ltd County Durham Mr A W Bullock
Brownswood Trust Mrs M J Marszalek
ShareGift Tesco Freetime Ltd Environmental Trust Mrs J E M Burgess
Carpenters’ Company Miss F E Mayes
Shears Foundation Tesco Stores Ltd Cumbria Waste Mrs M Burns
Charles Henry Foyle Mr L A Monk
Skyme Hart Charitable The Co-operative Bank Management Mrs J M Carrington
Trust Miss M A Mycock
Trust plc Environment Trust Ms M V N Brown
Cheruby Trust Miss M E Nash
Spear Charitable Trust The Royal Bank of CWM Environmental Miss V D F Carthy
Cleopatra Trust Professor K I B S
Steel Charitable Trust Scotland Limited Mrs E M Chamberlin
John S Cohen Foundation The Walt Disney Needham
Sylvia Aitken Charitable GEMTrust Miss E W Charleton
Colles Trust Trust Company Mrs E K Nicholls
Gloucestershire Mrs M Cheney
Craignish Charitable Trust Tanner Trust Timotei Environmental Trust Miss B A Noaks
Mrs L J Clarkson
Dagny Raymond Tay Charitable Trust TJX Europe GrantScape Mr R A Cochrane-Smith Miss N L North
Charitable Trust Tekoa Trust TNT Post Lafarge Aggregates Miss C Coles Mrs R Nye
David Killick Trust The Martin Connell Total Refrigeration Lancashire Environmental Mr G Colton Dr B M Parker
Dingwall Trust Charitable Trust Velux Fund Ms P R Cook Mr R W Parr
Doris Field Charitable The Michael Marsh WHSmith Retail Ltd npower Mrs J E Cooke Dr E K J Paterson
Trust Charitable Trust Worcester Bosch SITA Trust Miss L A M Cox Mrs M Pearce
Dr & Mrs A Darlington The Sunley Foundation Yellow Moon UK Ltd Staffordshire Ms E L Coxon Mrs D M Phillips
Charitable Trust The Tubney Charitable Yellow Pages Environmental Fund Mr J Crocker Miss B M Phillips
Dunard Fund Trust Yeo Valley Organic Co Trust for Oxfordshire’s Miss E Crowther Mr K T Pilkington
Esmee Fairbairn Thornton Charitable Ltd Environment Mr M J Dare Mrs B Plant
Foundation Trust Ulster Wildlife Trust Mrs J M Dubois Mrs B L Price
Essex Trust Tolkien Trust GRANTS Veolia Environmental Mrs D M Deane Mrs D G Reid
E T Mowle Charitable Vandervell Foundation £5,000 and over Trust Miss R M Davies Miss G R E Rickard
Trust Waterloo Foundation Big Lottery Fund Waste Recycling Mr P M Durman Mrs L A Riley
Fisherbeck Charitable William Dean Trust Cambridgeshire Horizons Environmental Limited Mr F W Ellis Miss P M B Robertson
Trust Countryside Council for Welcome to Our Future Mrs K N Ellison Mrs F L Robinson
Florence Turner Trust CORPORATE Wales Yorventure Mr D C Fairhall Mrs P M Rooker
Forbes Fund SUPPORTERS Defra Mr J C Fieldhouse Miss E J A Rutherford
Garfield Weston ALD Automotive Department of LOCAL Mr A G C Findlay Mrs M K Samuel
Foundation Barclaycard Agriculture and Rural AUTHORITIES Mr B Fletcher Mrs N G Scaum
George A Moore Barclays Development NI £5,000 and over Miss E Fleure Mrs K E M Scheerboom
Foundation BMRB Social Research Department of Miss M Flower Mrs M A Shanks
Gretna Charitable Trust Belfast City Council
BMW Ltd Communities and Mrs C A Ford Mr W Shaw
Gunter Charitable Trust Cambridgeshire County
British Land Local Government Miss M Forman Mr P J Sherwin
Harris Charity Council
BT plc Environment Agency Mr P A Fowler Mrs A M Short
Hawthorne Charitable Carrickfergus Borough Mrs E D Gale
Buccleuch Group European Structural Mr B H Shuck
Trust Council Mr K H E George
Calor Funds Dr S E G Simpson
Hilda and Johnny Gibb Castlereagh Borough Miss E G R Gillespie
Cap Gemini Forestry Commission Ms A C M Simpson
Charitable Trust Council Mr A Goddard
Charities Advisory Trust England Dr A Sivasbrumaniam
Holbeck Charitable Trust Cheshire County Council Mrs I M Gordon
Communisis Forestry Commission Miss G Smith
Ian & Elizabeth Church Cherwell District Council Miss H S Green
Colletts Holidays Scotland Mrs J Smith
Charitable Trust Cookstown District Mrs E L Green
Continu-forms holdings Forestry Commission Miss A M H Smith
Ingram Trust Council Mrs E F Greenwood
plc Wales
Essex County Council Miss M St John
J K Reynell Charitable Delta-Simons Forest Service Northern Mrs D P Gummer
Herefordshire Council Mrs M G Stater
Trust Dorothy Perkins Ireland Mrs D Hannah
Jack Patston Charitable Leicestershire County Mr M J R Stockman
Doubletree by Hilton Friends of the Lake Miss C J Harries
Trust Council Mrs S Swann
Environmental Business District Mr G B Harrod
John Ellerman Foundation Larne District Council Mrs A G R Harvie Mr D Swift
Products Ltd Green Arc
John Jarrold Trust Ferrero UK Ltd Newtownabbey Borough Mr E Haswell Mr F J Taylor
Hackfall Trust
Lady Hind Trust 3663 First For Heritage Lottery Fund Council Mrs P P Hince Ms A Tucker
Langdale Trust Foodservice Kent Downs AONB North Down Borough Miss D E Hobbs Mrs F Turner
Mark Leonard Trust Flourish National Forest Company Council Mrs M M Hogan Ms D A Tyler
Mary Lady Fuller Georgia Pacific GB Ltd Natural England Nottinghamshire County Miss J A H Holden Miss J M Wade
Charitable Trust Golden Charter Northern Ireland Council Miss M Horsfall Mrs J K Walker
Maud Elkington Greener Solutions Environment Agency Strabane District Council Miss M Hosker Dr C K Warrick CBE
Charitable Trust Hammonds Furniture Ltd Perth and Kinross Thurrock Council Mrs B H Hunt Mrs P B Watkins
Mr T H N Allen Honda UK Countryside Trust Mrs C A Hunt Mr J R Watson
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Mulberry House Fund Indigo Furniture Ltd Initiative £5,000 and over Miss J M Jackson Mr A A R Wilkes
Needham Charitable James McNaughton Rural Payments Agency Miss P D Allen Mrs J Jagger Mrs B Wilson
Trust Group Ltd Scottish Natural Heritage Mrs M G Allington Mr A Jefferson Ms H Wood
Northern Rock Kernow Coatings Wales Council for Mr E J Allsop Miss T M C Johnstone Mrs A D Wright
Foundation Lakeland Voluntary Action Mrs M Amos Miss E K Jones Miss M E Yeo
 The Woodland Trust*
Autumn Park
Grantham
Lincolnshire NG31 6LL
Telephone 01476 581111

The Woodland Trust Scotland

South Inch Business Centre
Shore Road
Perth PH2 8BW
Telephone 01738 635829

Coed Cadw (the Woodland Trust)

3 Cooper’s Yard
Curran Rd
Cardiff CF10 5NB
Telephone 08452 935860

The Woodland Trust in Northern Ireland

1 Dufferin Court
Dufferin Avenue
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Bangor
County Down BT20 3BX
Telephone 028 9127 5787

woodlandtrust.org.uk

* Registered office
The Woodland Trust is a charity registered in
England and Wales and in Scotland.
A non-profit making company limited by
guarantee. Registered in England no. 1982873.
The Woodland Trust logo is a registered trademark.

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