On the final Sunday of this year’s Urban Tree Festival, a group of 14 refugees, asylum seekers and two volunteer coordinators from Fences and Frontiers braved the pouring rain and the Northern Line rail replacement bus to join a walk through the beautiful Golders Hill and The Hill parks.

Author Sarah Wheeler and poet Chris Cuninghame win the Urban Tree Festival’s writing competition and are declared Writers-in-Residence for the 2022 Festival.

Wherever you live, if you are interested in nature, health, wellbeing, literature and photography our new journal ‘Leaves’ may be of interest. If you live in Edinburgh and are also interested in the future of the Astley Ainslie Hospital site then this is most definitely an exciting publication for you.

What do we feel about urban trees? A psychogeographic survey

Trees – we love them! We co-habit with them, we are co-dependent on them, and we rely on each other, so it makes sense to gather information about how we feel about them, it’s a way of understanding this close relationship.

Learn more about Tamsin’s event and book now.

This campaign is to stop the demolition of Truslove House and the cutting down of mature trees on the highest treeline of London. Some of the mature trees in Central Hill go back to the time of the Great North Wood. Lambeth Council wish to cut down these trees to build high-rise housing that will destroy London's treeline forever.

By Rob Mcbride

The Darwin Oak, a 550year old ancient tree, near Shrewsbury, Darwin’s home town, is threatened with destruction by a new road scheme

This blog post offers a brief glimpse into the shared characteristics of trees and tales in anticipation of the Urban Tree Festival's numerous literary events.

Keeping trees close: Jane Atfield transforms her local trees into necklaces, building on sensory experiences and friendships.

A guest blog by Vivienne Barton

People living in Brighton and Hove can reel off a list of reasons why they like living here; the sea, the Downs; the city’s architecture, the Royal Pavilion, The Lanes with its quirky shops and winding alleyways. But few people will nominate trees as one of the city’s best assets. Yet Brighton has many world class trees which deserve to be much better known.

A look at the aims of campaign group Save London Trees - bringing together tree protection groups across London and pushing for a London-wide strategy to save mature trees

Nataliia Starikova interviews Bruce Saunders for the Urban Tree Festival

Saunders Seasonings is an award-winning timber business based in London and Essex, producing their own London-sourced low carbon hardwoods for businesses, makers and designers big and small.

Most of their timber comes from trees felled in and around London; trees that would otherwise be chipped and burned. Instead, they recycle and repurpose them, giving them a second life and ensuring the carbon stays in the wood.

See events on our 2021 program which are based in Edinburgh.

See events on our 2021 program which will benefit your wellbeing and mental health.

Canopy anthology of poetry and prose published today

Questions with Daniel Harwood

Find out more about Daniel and his event ‘The Nature Diary of an Elizabethan Gentlemen’

By Cerrato – Halls

‘Universal Species Suffrage’ is a fictional scenario that looks at how politics would change if all species could not only vote, but were given equal rights to humans. In the form of a role-playing workshop, participants enter this world as one of five species, voting on a series of issues and helping form the first non anthropocentric government.