Where Businesses Can Get Involved During National Tree Week UK Volunteering & Planting Events 2025

Why Businesses Should Care

• Trees contribute to climate mitigation (carbon capture), nature recovery (biodiversity) and resilience (flood control, urban cooling).

• Engagement in community-planting events demonstrates purpose-led business behaviour, aligning with ESG, stakeholder trust and brand reputation.

• Volunteering days create staff engagement, team building and local place-based impact useful for reporting and disclosure.

• With nature-based solutions rising in prominence (and regulatory expectation), tree-planting participation is a tangible, credible step.

Credible Tree-Planting & Volunteering Partners You Can Engage With

Here are three strong UK organisations that businesses can partner with during National Tree Week:

1. The Tree Council

• UK umbrella charity organising National Tree Week. 

• Maintains a searchable event-map of public tree-planting activities for the week.

• Suggestion: Businesses can review their event listings and register as a group or sponsor.

2. The Woodland Trust

• Offers volunteering opportunities, free tree packs for schools & communities, and a listing of community planting events. 

• Businesses can collaborate by supporting a local woodland event, hosting a corporate planting day, or donating trees.

3. The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)

• Provides “Green Gym” and community-volunteering sessions for tree-planting, habitat creation, woodland management.

• Example: In the North East, TCV and local partners are hosting multiple tree-planting events during National Tree Week, like the North East Community Forest. 

• Businesses can sign up as corporate teams, support via sponsorship, or integrate as part of CSR/ESG programmes.

Selected UK Event Listings & Opportunities (2025)

Here are a selection of vetted events you can sign up for or share with your teams. Most are open to corporate participation — book early.

Note: For larger businesses or those operating in Yorkshire/Teesside/NECA  you may want to contact the local forest or community-wood team and explore a bespoke corporate planting day.

How to Engage Your Business (Step-by-Step)

1. Select your engagement style:

   • Attend an existing public event as a team.

   • Host your own tree-planting day (invite staff + clients).

   • Sponsor a planting event through a charity partner.

2. Set clear objectives and metrics:

   • Number of trees planted.

   • Staff volunteering hours.

   • Biodiversity benefit / ecosystem service gain (qualitative).

   • Link to your sustainability disclosures (e.g., Scope 3 supply chain, land-based carbon projects).

3. Choose the right partners:

   • Use credible organisations (see list above).

   • Ensure proper species-mix, site preparation, post-planting maintenance (to avoid “token” tree planting).

   • Use a UK-verified woodland or habitat project if you want carbon credit linkage.

4. Integrate into your reporting & narrative:

   • Document the event: photographs, participant quotes, site-details.

   • Link tree-planting to your net-zero roadmap (e.g., “we supported 300 saplings in Northern England to enhance biodiversity and carbon-capture”).

   • Share the story on social media (use National Tree Week hashtags) and in your annual sustainability report.

5. Follow-up:

   • Ensure the planted trees are maintained and monitored (important for long-term credibility).

   • Provide feedback to your team and stakeholders what was achieved, what it means.

   • Consider options for further engagement next year (e.g., hosting your own site, linking to your own land-restoration initiative in Northern England).

Own Land-Restoration Vision

For us at SBS, this week reinforces the work we’re doing to acquire land in Northern England for restoration (woodland creation, peatland, seagrass). Tree-planting doesn’t just mean small public events  it means building long-term, high-integrity nature-based assets that offer carbon credits, biodiversity gain and corporate volunteer opportunities.
By engaging your business in existing events this week, you’re also laying the groundwork for deeper partnership in future land-restoration initiatives (e.g., your company could join our Northern-England site as a volunteer or corporate partner in 2026).

Conclusion 

This National Tree Week offers an excellent opportunity for businesses to move beyond “green talk” and into action that matters. Whether you attend a public planting event or host your own, the value goes far beyond one day it’s about planting roots for long-term climate and nature impact.

Get in touch with us at SBS to explore how your business can:

• Join an existing tree-planting event this week

• Develop a bespoke corporate planting day in Northern England

• Link those efforts to your sustainability strategy, reporting, and carbon-removal roadmap

Let’s make your tree-planting count.