Our latest Newsletter
Have a look at our Summer Update 2026 for the latest news and upcoming events and workshops
You can now watch all of our videos on our YouTube Playlist. Find out more about the projects we have helped to get trees in the ground and how we can support you.
Future Funding Secured!
Have a look at our Story to find out the full details
Forest for Cornwall are delighted to share the fantastic news that we have secured four more years of funding. This means the project can continue to grow, with the brilliant work of the team and all of you that have got involved so far...and all those to come!
Communities, farmers, landowners, businesses and organisations will be supported to plant trees with these funds. Our aim is to sustain the local economy while tackling the effects of our changing climate. Planting trees will help to improve our health and happiness by bringing the benefits of trees to our local green spaces, towns and villages.
Nature will also benefit with increased habitat for birds, mammals and insects. Planting trees will help make rivers and streams cleaner, improve soil, and reduce run-off and flooding in our coastal towns.
Your involvement has helped to get more than 2 million trees in the ground in a huge range of projects all across Cornwall. This includes 825 hectares of new woodland so far. Have a look at our interactive map below for all the planting sites.
The winter of 2025/2026 was our busiest planting season yet, with 317.262 more trees in the ground. This includes 67 new orchards, 63 agroforestry projects, 41 street trees and 26 km of new hedgerow.
Our new funding has been awarded due to the national recognition of the success of the programme. The funding is provided by the DEFRA Trees Programme and will total £8.764 million, spread over the next four years.
Get in touch if you would like to plant trees!
Summer Orchard Pruning Workshop for Stone Fruit
We will be running our very popular free summer pruning workshop again this year with the expertise of Resilient Orchards. This will take place at Kehelland, just outside Camborne, on Sunday 16th August (10am-2pm).
Please go to the Eventbrite link to find out more and to book a place.
New Forest for Cornwall Community Fund
The Forrest for Cornwall small grants fund is now open for applications for small scale tree planting projects, and tree related events and items.
Grants can be awarded up to a maximum of £4,000 covering the following:
£2500 for tree projects such as hedgerows under 100 metres, orchards, public green spaces, including tree protection, shelters, guards and mulch.
£1500 for items directly relating to tree establishment and for wider and community benefit. These include training and events which are open to all and linked to tree planting. Also interpretation boards, watering items and tools to aid in establishment. Community Tree Nurseries can apply for seed propagating materials.
Who can apply?
Community groups, community orchards, local environment groups, parish and town councils, schools, community tree nurseries, local charities, education and sports groups.
Landholders planning a farm visit or event
Individuals such as smallholders may apply for the trees and protection, but not additional items such as training, events or tools.
There are no deadlines for submitting an application as they are reviewed on a rolling basis.
To find out more, make an application or enquire about your project please contact the Forest for Cornwall team.
Have a look at the new Forest for Cornwall interactive map
This new map gives the latest update on the location and number of trees planted across Cornwall. There are also several layers of information you can also look at, including the 2016 baseline canopy cover for each parish in our region.
Go to the Forest for Cornwall Interactive Map
Worthy Winners at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards 2025
The awards, organised by the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership, celebrate sustainability across all sectors in Cornwall. Along with our partners, the Woodland Trust, F4C sponsored the Trees for Nature & Growth category at this years' awards. Many incredible projects put forward an application which made for a challenging time for the judges and resulted in a very close competition!
Huge congratulations to the winners:
Farmers and Landholders
Highly Commended: Trefusis Estate
Urban and Community
Winner: St. Ives Community Orchard CIC
Highly Commended: United Downs Environment Group (UDEG)
These awards highlight the work of so many of the people that have planted trees for community benefit, to enhance production on farms, to tackle climate change and support nature recovery in Cornwall. Congratulations to everyone who entered, and to all our F4C projects for the work they are doing.
Two of our farm projects were also winners in the Nature Friendly Farming category - Treveddoe Farm was Highly Commended and Presingoll Farm took the Winner trophy🏆 .
Celebrating 5 Years of Forest for Cornwall
The team are celebrating 5 years of fantastic work across Cornwall. Over 1.6 million trees have now been planted in more than 1000 projects. There are is more than 500 hectares of planting in the pipeline for this winter.
It's a double celebration this year as its the 50th anniversary of National Tree Week.
The team held a community get together at the site of the first F4C planting at Tincombe Park in Saltash.
We were joined by members of Tree Saltash and the Friends of Tincombe Park, Cllr Loic Rich (Portfolio holder for Environment and Climate Change), Cllr Hilary Frank, and local residents to celebrate all that has been achieved in the last five years. There was a fascinating walk and talk around the park, free tree giveaway, willow weaving workshop and the opportunity to plant the next generation of trees.
Have a look at our latest film which shows the range of projects that so many have got involved in:
Spotlight on agroforestry
This winter has seen the planting of over 50 hectares of agroforestry projects. These combine tree planting with current farming production. It can be combined with both crops and livestock. It brings many benefits including:
shade
shelter
soil enhancement
alternative crops
flood prevention
At the end of March the team held a very popular agroforestry workshop at Rosuick Farm on the Lizard. This is the site for one of the agroforestry pilot projects which is being funded by Defra's Nature for Climate Fund. Many local farmers and producers joined us for the day. It included informative talks from:
local agroforestry practitioners
the national leads in agroforestry from the Forestry Commission and Environment Agency
Find out more about the brilliant work of the Community Tree Nurseries
We've captured some of the work of the community tree nurseries that are being supported with the help of the Woodland Trust Emergency Tree Fund. These nurseries are growing trees from locally collected seed with the help of volunteers and community groups. Have a look at these videos to learn more about the work at Bolghen Community Tree Nursery and Kehelland Trust.
Latest Community Projects
Forest for Cornwall has been supporting local communities to plant trees in a variety of different ways. This has been done through the Woodland Trust funded 'Forest for My Place' project. These two new case study videos show the great work that has been happening: