The main aim of The Big Tree Plant funding scheme is to encourage and support community groups to plant trees in neighbourhoods where people live and work.
The Forestry Commission want to help improve the quality of life of those living in England’s towns, cities and residential areas by making neighbourhoods more attractive, healthy places to live; especially in areas of greatest deprivation and/or where there is little greenery.
The Forestry Commission want to encourage citizens to take responsibility for establishing, protecting and enhancing green spaces in their local area.
The scheme can fund work such as community involvement, site surveys and expert advice as well as trees, planting materials, labour, and tree care and maintenance.
The Big Tree Plant funding scheme will give £4 million in grants during the campaign (2011 to 2015).
The Forestry Commission want this to pay for the planting of at least one million trees in a mixture of small groups of trees in greenspaces, other neighbourhood tree planting and street trees.
For further information and to apply, visit: www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-8BHL6E, or contact 0800 856 7984, or email: [email protected]
Deadline: Friday 15 March 2013, 17:00