🌳 Grow Slow, Grow Beautiful - Spring
In this Newsletter you will read about our new woodlands, new partners, volunteer days, festivals and our plans for the year ahead. Meet our new Business Development Manager and Job opportunities to join the 9Trees team.
But first we just wanted to show you a great pic from last year - Erika Cunningham (Mikes Mum) enjoying the Quad with Landowner Geoff in Oct 2025 - Franklin Wood, near Rhayader was our First Woodland we planted!
9Trees was started in 2019 with Permaculture principles and a holistic organisation bringing together landowners, individuals and businesses to create biodiverse woodlands across the UK. 9Trees is a ‘Grow Slow. Grow Beautiful’ organisation.
In the coming months you will see how we have grown, changed and our hopes for the future and continue to create meaningful work in the countryside sector and spaces for connection to nature and wellbeing.
We are so happy that spring is here, Just a few weeks left to plant the final trees and then we embark on the next season of planting, partnerships and progress.
We now care for 17 sites across 10 counties in the UK, with projects in Ireland and Scotland on the horizon.
Could your county be next? Word of mouth helps us grow 🌱
🌿 Growing the 9Trees Team
We’re delighted to welcome Michele Kaye, our new Business Development Manager.
Michele brings extensive experience in partnerships and sustainable business growth. She’ll be leading on new corporate relationships, strengthening existing partnerships, and helping more organisations support ethical tree planting across the UK and Ireland.
Read her story; 9Trees Team Members
If you’re a business looking to align your impact with meaningful, transparent environmental action — Michele would love to hear from you. Email info@9trees.org
🌿 Join Us Near Bristol
Volunteer Days – Chew Magna (Third Wood)
📅 Saturday 21st March
📅 Saturday 28th March
Come and plant, maintain, or visit our new site (with a workshop / shed and compost toilet). We’d love to see you there.
RSVP or drop us an email; 9Trees CIC | Eventbrite
Volunteers provided by Protect Earth for Third Wood Chew Magna
🌍 Festivals & Events 2026
Come and find us to chat about our work and how to get involved:
HowTheLightGetsIn Hay – 22–25 May
Festival of Nature – 6–14 June
Valley Fest – 31 July–2 August
Between the Trees Festival – August
Environmental Services & Solutions Expo – 16–17 September
HowTheLightGetsIn London – September
Blue Earth Summit – October
Volunteer applications for festivals now open - Free tickets for 4 - 6 hours per day
Kate from Bristol helping ‘heal some trees in’ on Third Wood near Bristol!
🌱 2025/26 Planting – Branching Out & New Partnerships
Tree Planting Projects - 9Trees CIC
📍 Mould, Flintshire (Wales)
300 agroforestry & woodland trees in partnership with Switch Equine.
Fruit trees (apple, pear, plum, damson) alongside walnut, hornbeam, sea buckthorn, alder, dogwood, hazel, birch & willow — supporting regenerative agriculture for horse owners and stables.
📍Wellington, Devon
300 trees in partnership with Protect Earth.
Part of our Branching Out programme with a 30-year protection agreement.
📍 Bodmin, Cornwall
1,000-tree shelterbelt with Plant One Cornwall in the National Landscape.
A landscape-scale resilience project including alder, wild cherry, rowan and birch (15-year agreement).
📍 Third Wood, Chew Magna (Bristol/Somerset)
4,000 trees over 2–3 years (1,250 already planted).
Species include sweet chestnut, alder, oak, hazel and hornbeam.
Following major losses from the 2025 drought, we are replacing 4,000 failed trees and managing part of the site to safeguard sponsored trees.
Although within a Woodland Carbon Code scheme, this area will not be sold as carbon credits — offering landowners an alternative approach beyond government schemes.
Team planting and maintenance days are available via our events page.
James from the Gallimaufry and Gavin the Landowner -
Where it all began for this project near Bristol in 2023
Read more here;
Third Wood, Chew Magna: A Community-Led Woodland Restoration Near Bristol
🌳 New on the Blog 🌱
Want to make a real difference for wildlife and people? 9Trees CIC is looking for passionate individuals to help create new UK woodlands! Become our Landowner Liaison Manager (paid, part-time) and take the lead on landowner engagement, site visits, ecology surveys, and mapping , or join as a Volunteer Landowner Liaison Representative to support outreach and desk-based research. Flexible hours, a supportive team, and the chance to grow your skills while making a lasting environmental impact await you! Apply now: info@9trees.org
🌳 Looking Ahead – 2026/27
Hedgerows along the John Muir Way (Scotland)
Hedgerows across Wiltshire (with Wiltshire County Council)
Community planting in St Clears, Pembrokeshire
Agroforestry in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland
Wildlife hedge in South Wales
Fruit trees & hedging on the Herefordshire borders
📝 New Blog
Carbon Credits, Without the Greenwash: 9Trees’ Ethical Approach
We explore how we balance carbon responsibly — without overpromising or greenwashing.
Carbon Credits, Without the Greenwash: 9Trees’ Ethical Approach — 9Trees CIC
🌟 In Case You Missed It
🌳 100 Businesses Now Support 9Trees CIC
Together we’ve planted 17,000+ trees — and we’re just getting started.🏆 Winner – Environment 100 Award at ESS Expo
🎙️ Podcast Series
From Birch Trees to Global Regeneration – with Kinga Monica
Carbon Accounting Simplified – with Eoin McQuone
Exploring Druidry & Environmental Responsibility – with Philip Carr-Gomm🙌 Volunteering Across Our UK Sites
From Derbyshire to Devon, our woodlands are flourishing thanks to volunteer power.✍️ New Blogs
Stories from our sites — how the trees are growing and the impact they’re making.
Mike enjoying waking in the woods in North Wales
💚 Thank You for Growing With Us
We’re currently preparing our next Impact Report.
If you’d like to be part of this Grow Small, Grow Beautiful non-profit movement — or know a business that might — please share this newsletter or get in touch.
Together, we grow forests. 🌳
Follow us & stay connected! 🌿 ✨