Children growing the trees their communities are missing
A UK charity restoring habitat, one school at a time.
How it works
We connect sponsors, who fund the trees and wildflowers, with landowners and schools who provide the ground. Children do the growing and the planting. The habitat stays in their community.
Programmes
Children grow native saplings on site, then plant them out locally.
Wildflower meadows planted in school grounds for pollinators.
Habitat corridors for bees, butterflies and other invertebrates.
Native hedgerows linking fragmented habitat across sites.
What we're working on now
Grow London
London's trees follow its wealth. In Barking & Dagenham canopy cover is 8.2 per cent, the lowest in the city. We're setting up school tree nurseries in the boroughs with the least canopy and the most child poverty.
British Big Five
Five native species that tell the story of Britain's recovery: beaver, curlew, honey bee, grey seal and Atlantic salmon. Each gets a month in the spotlight, with donations going straight to the specialists working on it.
Growing a greener London
Wildlife campaigner, writer and broadcaster Dominic Dyer introduces ERS’s Grow London initiative, bringing school tree nurseries to some of the capital’s least green boroughs. Discover how children will nurture native trees and help create a greener, healthier city for generations to come.
