Green The UK

Rose Uniacke is working in partnership with GreenTheUK and the Royal Forestry Society (RFS) to plant new climate resilient trees across UK woodlands. This project focuses on excellence in woodland management, working with foresters and arborists to ensure we are planting for the future with knowledge being shared from one generation to another.

Planting for the future means nurturing skills that will protect woodlands from pests, diseases and improve resilience to climate change. 41% of England’s woodlands are unmanaged or under-managed, which poses threats to the health and sustainability of woodlands. Rose Uniacke is helping to support tree planting rooted in knowledge of UK woodlands, looked after by experts.

The Committee on Climate Change recommends woodland cover is increased to a minimum of 17% by 2050, requiring 30,000 to 50,000 hectares a year of woodland creation. This will store carbon, increase biodiversity, flood control and create a low-carbon route to increasing the resilience of the rural economy.

This past planting season, from October 2024 to April 2025, the UK saw 5 named storms according to the Met Office, highlighting the need to act each planting season to protect and restore UK woodlands.

In that period, Rose Uniacke supported the planting of 11,200 trees, 4,000 more than we had in previous years (2021-2024), bringing our total planted so far to 32,800 mixed-species climate resilient trees planted across the UK. This is part of our commitment to plant 100,000 trees by 2031 - marking 10 years since our first planting initiative.

Trees planted per planting season:

2024-2025 - 11,200 Trees (see case study here):

1,000 trees planted in Leicestershire

1,550 trees planted in North Yorkshire

4.000 trees planted in Somerset

2,400 trees planted in Northamptonshire

1,000 trees planted in Cumbria

245 trees planted in County Down

305 trees planted in County Durham

200 trees planted in Hertfordshire

200 trees planted in London

300 trees planted in Cumbria

2023-2024 - 7,200 Trees (see case study here):

200 trees planted in Cornwall

453 trees planted in County Durham

200 trees planted in Cumbria

2,000 trees planted in Tyrone

4,147 trees planted in Aberdeenshire

200 trees planted in Norfolk

2022-2023 - 7,200 Trees (see case study here):

32 trees planted in Hampshire

1,000 trees planted in West Sussex

1,000 trees planted in County Down

1,000 trees planted in County Antrim

1,540 trees planted in West Sussex

2,628 trees planted in Berwickshire

2021-2022 - 7,200 Trees (see case study here):

2,000 trees planted in Pembrokeshire, Wales

400 trees planted in North Yorkshire, England

4,800 trees planted in Stirling, Scotland

Read more about the trees planted here.