Environmental restoration programmes

Ecological restoration is widely used to reverse the environmental degradation caused by human activities such as deforestation, pollution and land use techniques that cause soil erosion, although different kinds of ecosystems recover at different rates. 

We have several different ways for schools, community groups, businesses, landowners and more to join us in our efforts to restore degraded and unused land in the UK - and beyond.

Our three main areas of work to restore our environment are:

• To create new woodlands and natural spaces in urban areas by planting trees through our School Tree Nursery programme

• To rehabilitate wildflower meadows and create small wild spaces by planting native wildflowers through our Flutter Flowers programme

• To recreate and restore lost hedgerows and their habitats for wildlife through our Hedgerow Habitat and Wildlife Corridor programme.

take part in ecological RESTORATION

Check out the individual programme pages to learn more about our environmental restoration work that you can take part in or support in other ways.

In our School Tree Nursery programme, students and teachers will create a tree nursery to plant and look after tree saplings, until they grow big enough to be planted into a new woodland or in local community spaces.

In our Hedgerow Habitat and Wildlife Corridor programme, students and teachers will also plant trees. However, this will be to establish a new hedge in their grounds. This will help local wildlife in many ways and have a positive impact on local air pollution for everyone at the school.

In our School Flutter Flowers programme, students will alongside their teachers plant native wildflowers in their school grounds to create a new small wild habitat to help pollinator species like butterflies and bees.

Connected to this is our Pollinators without Borders programme. Here we work with landowners who are willing to donate a part of their land to plant wildflowers on. This is often with children from a local school in their area.

Our Breathing Waterways campaign focuses on the restoration of rivers. We do this by cleaning them from debris, trash and other things that prevents them from running naturally and without wildlife being at risk in it. As well as planting native wildflowers and other plants to make it wild and healthy again.