ITF’s partner projects are funded from various sources, ranging from fundraising campaigns, legacies and monthly membership donations. But this year, one of our projects has been funded entirely from gifts at one couple’s wedding!

Paul Laird, ITF Programmes Manager, reports on our new partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Rural Agriculture and Development (CSRAD) in Ghana. ITF is supporting their project for the Conservation of Montonnso Sacred Forest.

Community members danced non-stop for three hours at Our Lady’s Abingdon (OLA) Senior School to raise over £1,800 for mental health charity MIND and International Tree Foundation (ITF)’s Bamenda project. Latin-inspired moves and great music made this event one to remember!

Reflecting on International Women's Day and the history of the Men of the Trees, this article highlights the key role of women in the organisation's creation and development. From Claudia Stuart Coles, who introduced founder Richard St. Barbe Baker to the Bahá'í faith, to Wendy Campbell-Purdie's work reforesting the Algerian desert in the 1960s, women were central to the group's vision and execution.

Discover the importance of trees and forests in protecting wildlife on World Wildlife Day. Discover how we’re engaging future decision makers & leaders by inspiring a love for forests in young people through initiatives like My 20 Trees and Me and Fruit-full Communities.

We are delighted to announce the start of a new project with the Community Empowerment Initiative Network (CEIN).

ITF's 20 Million Trees Campaign has completed its first season of planting, with 68,500 seedlings added to deforested land and farms around Embu County, Kenya. The campaign aims to plant 20 million trees by 2024 across Kenya's five Water Tower forests.

We are excited to announce that we have secured funding for a new project in Zanzibar! Aiming to increase the capacity of local communities in participatory forest management, the project will work on 10 villages around Unguja.

Following a record number of applications, we are pleased to announce the successful organisations who will receive funding from our Sustainable Community Forestry programme.

The Dom Community Food Forest project is part of the long-term collaboration between Community Assistance in Development (COMAID) and ITF, which started back in 2015.

Autumn 2016 marks the 80th birthday of Trees, the journal of International Tree Foundation, known as The Men of the Trees in the past. This makes Trees one of the oldest environmental publications still going strong today. In fact we have just published the 73rd Volume of the journal.