In celebration of Volunteers’ Week 2022, we asked, Helen, our Communications Volunteer a few questions about her time volunteering with ITF.

Discover how we're supporting a community in Truro, Cornwall to boost mental health and wellbeing through tree planting.

This International Day for Biological Diversity, we are celebrating all life on earth, from microorganisms, to plant and animal life.

Many of ITF’s supporters today were inspired to join us after meeting St Barbe in person. Some have been generously planting trees with us for 50 years, such was the deep impact of our founder. As part of our centenary celebrations, we’ve been asking for memories of St Barbe. Here are just a few.

We partnered with Kitui Development Centre (KDC), a women-led Community Based Organisation, to restore the degraded landscape in Kitui County, Kenya and reduce the adverse effects of climate change on the community.

We celebrated Earth Day 2022 by planting trees young school going children in Kitui County, Kenya.

To save the planet, we must put communities at the heart of the restoration fight to protect and improve their wellbeing and livelihoods.

“We had missed out on the species which provide medicine, food, honey and weaving materials which were very important in our lives but now we are like kings since we can access these resources at any time.”

We’re working with Environment and Agroforestry Foundation (EAF) to promote the conservation and restoration of the riparian forests within the Black Volta Basin catchment areas in Northwest Ghana.

Through training on agroforestry and alternative land restoration techniques, this project is supporting communities in Katavi, Western Tanzania to build resilient and sustainable futures.

Learn how we're with with our local partner Karambi Group of People with Disabilities, to empower local communities in Western Uganda through food forestry.

The Unity Museum in Seattle, Washington is joining in with our Centenary Celebrations by holding an exhibition about the life and work of St Barbe, who visited Seattle on a number of occasions.

To celebrate International Women’s Day we joined with community members and students at a school tree planting event in Masaka District, Uganda.

The Trees for Livelihoods project seeks to restore Kakamega forest whilst promoting women’s participation and inclusion in sustainable community development projects. 

If passed, the Forest Conservation and Management (Amendment) Bill 2021 would weaken the role of Kenya Forest Service who are mandated to protect all public forests.

In Burford, West Oxfordshire, our partner, Nature and Nurture is inspiring and mobilising local community groups to protect, enhance and restore their local landscape.

We are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021, where you can double your donation and plant more trees in Kenya’s Saiwa National Park wetlands.

Over the last year, 300 women have been trained on grafting and growing fruit trees which are being planted in their local communities, providing them with an income while also reducing the pressure on the ancient forest.

There are big commitments being made at COP26. But we are proud to be working with communities to do something concrete for the environment.