Most local authorities have a tree planting scheme, but how do we ensure that trees planted today are resilient to the UK’s future climate? ⁠ Ashden work to boosts climate innovation in the UK and Global South. ⁠⁠⁠Last month Matt and Katy spoke about the importance of community climate resilience and how this informs our […]

Last year Katy had been working with Springfield Primary Academy alongside a group of 14 students from Years 4, 5, and 6 to make important decisions around this years tree planting. These 14 children make up the school’s Eco-Club. Sparkhill has a relatively small tree canopy, and it is essential that young people are involved […]

Our strategy for this pocket of green space on Stoney Lane grew from a pop-up consultation alongside our wonderful partners, Friends of Sparkhill Park, ensuring our plan for the space was considered and worked well for the local landscape Wanting to care for open green spaces and make them more accessible, we learnt this was […]

This special day marked our first partnership with the newly formed Friends of Shakespeare Street Park, this event being their first action since setting up. Despite non-stop rain, it was an ambitious and successful day for BTP as we planted 12 trees. This achievement was made possible by the incredible involvement of the local community, […]

We met with a group from Saltley Adult Learning Centre for a day in February, planting ten large trees on Alexander Way Open Public Green Space. The centre neighbours the site, meaning that the group had valuable, informed insights into what the space could look like. In co-designing the planting plan for the park, the […]

One of our first planting sessions of 2026 took place with our brilliant partners at Zia-ul-Quran Jamia Mosque, who we have been working with since summer 25. On a sunny Saturday morning in January, we gathered to plant trees around the mosque building. Together, we planted a beautiful Magnolia and a Judas Tree in two […]

With Matt Cox and Katy Hawkins Our processes are rooted in long term thinking around tree health and climate resilience and informed by generous community exchanges and we want to share the inner workings of our tree planting processes with you. In our Tree Planting Review, Matt and Katy reflect on our planting work from […]

Lawrence Weston is a Director of Clent Hills Orchards CIC and a Trustee of Birmingham TreePeople. Recently, Lawrence finished a insightful report on Orchard Equity Mapping. This project represents the first comprehensive mapping and survey of publicly accessible fruit trees and orchards in Birmingham, establishing an essential evidence base for future planning, management, and community […]

by Katy Hawkins This year, working with trees I’ve not yet worked with, I’ve been spending time getting to know them a little better. I’ve been reading what others know about them, and looking out for them whilst on wanders, learning to notice what makes them, them. I wanted to share some of my research […]

We’re currently seeing record levels of human migration which is a direct result of a worsening climate crisis that disproportionately affects countries within the “Global South”1. This Global North – Global South divide is based on GDP per capita, and is a division that is shaped by colonialism and its lasting impact. In extreme cases, […]