Urban Trees

Event Information

Whilst spring is a special time of year for enjoying the blossoming of trees and nature, busy lifestyles, work pressures and for students, exam time, mean that we can get caught up in the everyday and miss the nature surrounding us. In this webinar, learn how urban trees on your doorstep can bring calm and wellbeing with some simple techniques to build tree time into your schedule.

The session will be facilitated by Students for trees.

Contributors

Vicky Entwistle is Volunteer Development Officer at the Woodland Trust for the North of England. Vicky worked with Bolton GP Federation to develop a green social prescribing programme of walks at the Woodland Trust's biggest site in England, Smithills Estate - an urban fringe site in Bolton. She also created resources for connecting with nature during the lockdown in 2020, for use in Bolton's communities. A qualified counsellor, Vicky is interested in how being in nature - including in urban environments - can improve our wellbeing.

Becky Lyon is an artist exploring how art practice can illuminate and re-enchant relationships to our animate and inter-relational ecology. Her work takes multiple forms including installation, ritual, participatory projects, image-making and research artefacts. She hosts numerous events and gatherings designed to excite and inspired people to build more care-full connections with urban ecology for the likes of Natural England and London Interdisciplinary School and is a ranger for London National Park City. She has an MA Art & Science from Central Saint Martins and is currently studying MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths University.

Students for Trees is a student-led network supporting students across the UK to learn about, and take action for, woods and trees, with a focus on helping to fight the climate and nature crises. Our Students For Trees Council delivers the programme with expertise and support from SOS-UK and the Woodland Trust.

Hazell Mooney is Chair of Students for trees and a PhD researcher working in the School of Earth and Environment. Hazel achieved her MSc Climate Change and Environmental Policy degree at the University of Leeds following an undegraduate degree, BSc Environmental Science, also at the University of Leeds. Between 2019 and 2021, Hazel was employed by the United Bank of Carbon as Science and Communications Officer researching the ecosystem service delivery of greenspaces, in particular trees and woodlands, and communicating this research.

Organisation

Woodland Trust