Avon Needs Trees

Who we are

Avon Needs Trees is a registered charity creating new permanent woodland throughout the Bristol-Avon catchment to fight the climate and ecological emergency.

We fundraise to buy land to create new woodlands that will stand for generations, locking up carbon, boosting local biodiversity, and providing natural flood management as well as publicly accessible green space.

Since our formation in 2019, we have had two incredibly successful projects in Wiltshire purchasing two sites of 47 acres, planting and caring for 22,000 native trees with the help of hundreds of volunteers from local and surrounding communities.

In 2023, we started planting Great Avon Wood; a ground-breaking 113-acre woodland project in partnership with the Forest of Avon Trust, with 35,000 trees supplied by the Woodland Trust. We also planted Ed Woods, our first Land Partnership venture, which means we are working with the site landowners to create permanent woodland.

In early 2024, we achieved our biggest land purchase yet: a 422-acre site at Wick Farm between Bristol and Bath. Over the next few years, this will be transformed into the Lower Chew Forest, the South West’s largest new woodland in a generation.