Avon Needs Trees

Avon Needs Trees is a registered charity creating new permanent woodland throughout the Bristol-Avon catchment to fight the climate and ecological emergencies. We fundraise to buy land to create new woodlands that will stand for generations, locking up carbon, boosting local biodiversity, and providing natural flood management as well as publicly accessible green space. Since our formation in 2019, we have had two incredibly successful projects in Wiltshire purchasing two sites of 47 acres, planting and caring for 22,000 native trees with the help of hundreds of volunteers from local and surrounding communities. In 2023 we launched a further two sites, the first being a purchase of over 100 acres near south Bristol, and the second being our first land partnership project to create a woodland on land not owned by us but where we have secured legal permanence. In early 2024, we achieved our biggest land purchase yet: a 422-acre site at Wick Farm between Bristol and Bath. Over the next few years, this will be transformed into the Lower Chew Forest, the South West’s largest new woodland in a generation.