About Us

The Earth Restoration Service was established in 2001, by our chairman Peter Phelps, following his attendance of the Earth Restoration Conference. The conference had been organised by one of our trustees, Alan Watson Featherstone, who had such success bringing back life to the Caledonian Forests of Scotland. Peter was so inspired by Alan’s work that he set about his own restoration ecology service.

Peter saw an opportunity to encourage positive ecological action at a local level, whilst inspiring people to play their part in rehabilitating the natural health of their environments. Peter then brought in Andreas Kornevall. His experience running small scale ecological start ups around the world made him the perfect candidate to run the operation. And so, The Earth Restoration Service was born.

What we do 

We aim to restore the environment by planting trees, hedges and wild areas with wildflowers.

Our approach is one of proactive collaboration with schools, community groups, other charities, businesses, landowners and foundations to create an alliance addressing the challenges of regenerating the Earth. 

Since 2004, we has served over 750 schools across the UK and some further afield. We have planted over 60,000 native trees, and engaged 50,000 children and their local communities. You can find more info about this and our environmental restoration programmes here.

We are always looking for new supporters to engage in these programmes. Whether that means volunteering their time or providing financial support. Join us in our mission to achieve proactive ecosystem restoration!

Meet Our Team

Andreas Kornevall – Director of Operations

Andreas supports the delivery of our tree and wildflower planting programmes, including managing funding partnerships. He also works with innovative grassroots programmes in the ecological, cultural and social sectors in countries including India, the USA, Ecuador, Iceland and the Gambia. He is a member of the British Permaculture Association.

charlotte laursen – PROGRAMME COORDINATOR

Charlotte is the coordinator and point of contact for our environmental restoration programmes. She also manages the online presence of our charity and works on raising funds through grants.

Trustees

Peter Phelps – Chairman

Peter co-founded ERS and has been chairman since its inception having been actively involved in forest restoration in the UK and Australia for three decades.  Peter is CFO of Rudolf Wolff and Fellow of the Royal of Society of Arts (RSA).

Alan Watson Featherstone - Trustee

Founder and Executive Director of award winning organisation Trees for Life https://treesforlife.org.uk/

Howard Colvin – Trustee

CEO of Rudolf Wolff, Howard has been involved in ERS since its inception.

Dermot O’Gorman – Trustee

Dermot is CEO of the World Wildlife Fund.  He has two degrees in Environmental Conservation and a masters in Environmental Policy and Assessment from the London School of Economics.