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New F4C Interactive Map
Cornwall Sustainability Awards 2025
5 Year Celebration
Spotlight on agroforestry
Community Tree Nurseries
Latest community projects
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Have a look at our Spring Newsletter 2026 for the latest news and upcoming events and workshops

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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.

Have a Look at the New F4C 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 F4C 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 & Landholders
Winner: Screech Owl Sanctuary & Animal Park
Highly Commended: Trefusis Estate

Urban & 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

Agroforestry workshop

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: