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Urban Tree Festival
Celebrating urban trees
10-18 May 2025
The Urban Tree Festival is an annual community celebration of trees, including their benefits, beauty, majesty, and magic, in cities, towns and all urban environments. Events, celebrations, walks, talks and storytelling are held across London and the UK, bringing all our communities together to educate, inspire and share their enjoyment of trees.
Welcome…
UTF is a non-political, not-for-profit, Constituted Volunteer Group, run by a group of passionate volunteers and staff, working with event organisers who include; artists, meditators, young people and the old, mothers with prams, tree wardens, conservationists, dog walkers, writers, rappers, health and welfare practitioners, ecologists and urban planners, food growers and restaurant goers, storytellers ... and everyone who is inspired to love our trees!
What is the UTF?
WHERE: London & UK wide
WHEN: 10th - 18th May 2025
WHAT: Up to 40+ events; walks, talks,
writing competition, webinars, art
events, health and wellbeing.
WHO: Run by arboriculturalists, authors,
industry specialists, academics,
students and urban foresters.
ONLINE: www.urbantreefestival.org
CONTACT: sara@urbantreefestival.org
Highlights from last year…
Check out our programme for listings as they are added this year!
Colchester Campus Tree Walk
A pleasant walk around parts of the campus and Wivenhoe Park highlighting some of the notable trees, devised by Christopher Howard and guided by local tree expert Phil Brew.
Walk, Book here
Forest Bathing with Clare Barry
Join creative trainer Clare Barry as she helps fight fatigue with a session of Forest Bathing, at Mycenae House Gardens.
Relaxation, Book here
The Happy Man Tree Film
When a group of Hackney locals discover that a property developer has been granted permission by the Council to fell a huge, much-loved 150-year-old street tree, they do everything they can to try to save it!
Film, Book here
Help us grow branches of the Urban Tree Festival
The 2025 Urban Tree Festival is now open for submissions! We look forward to receiving your submitted events this year.
Find out more about this years theme here.
Image: Fences & Frontiers Walk Epping Forest.
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Urban Tree Festival now!
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