Tree bundles: expression of interest

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Trees: Expression of interest – 2024-2025

Please fill out this form to register your interest in receiving free NHS Forest trees for your healthcare site, to be planted between November 2024 and March 2025.

All our schemes are available for NHS sites in England. We also hope to have some limited capacity to fulfill smaller orders in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Please ensure you have consulted with relevant teams within your organisation to ensure you are able to plant trees on your site.

Once you have submitted your interest we will be in touch to confirm your order and take further details. If you don’t see any emails from us, please remember to check you spam folder and to move any relevant emails into your main folder to avoid any future messages being treated as spam.

Name(Required)

First Last

Email(Required)

Phone(Required)

How did you hear about our tree offer?(Required)

If other, please tell us.

Where you work

Job title(Required)

Your job category(Required)

Sustainability

Estates and Facilities

Senior Management

Staff wellbeing/HR

Other non-clinical

Clinical (mental health)

Clinical (non-mental health)

Other

Name of your healthcare site(Required)

Address of the site(Required)

Please add the address of the site where you are planning to plant trees. Please note we are only able to supply trees to sites in England at this time.

Street Address Address Line 2 City County / State / Region ZIP / Postal Code

Name of NHS trust or health board(Required)

Name of ICS (if in England)

Trees and your site

Has your site received trees from the NHS Forest in the past?(Required)

Yes

Not sure

Is tree planting part of your trust's Green Plan?(Required)

Yes

Not sure

What is your main reason for planting trees on you healthcare site?(Required)

If "other", please give more information here(Required)

If you would like to let us know more about your vision for the trees on your site, please do so below.

Request your tree bundles

Please let us know the number of bundles of each type you would like.

What type of planting are you doing?

Lone trees

Groups of trees

Woodland (greater than 100 trees)

Extra Small bundles (10 trees)

Mini Grove

Mini Grove is a single species bundle with a choice of six native trees – alder, field maple, hazel, oak, rowan or silver birch. Our smallest bundle, Mini Grove is ideal for small healthcare settings where planting space is limited. Please note that due to high fulfilment costs we are limiting requests for the Mini Grove bundles to two per site. Applicants requiring more trees can apply for the standard Grove bundles in multiples of thirty.

Small bundles (30 trees)

Grove

Grove is a single species bundle with a choice of six native trees – alder, field maple, hazel, oak, rowan or silver birch; the bundles can be requested individually – for example, to plant a small copse, create a walkway border, or integrate larger trees into a newly planted hedgerow – or planted in combination with other bundles.

Urban

Urban is our smallest mixed bundle, ideal for built up areas with limited space for planting, or to supplement areas with existing tree cover. Each bundle contains crab apple, hazel and rowan, all smaller trees that will tolerate compact soils and thrive in urban settings, both planted together or dispersed.

Medium bundles (60 trees)

Shelterbelt

Shelterbelt is a linear planting mix developed as a tree-centric alternative (and / or supplement) to traditional hedging. Comprising alder, goat willow, hawthorn, rowan and silver birch, these bundles can be used to create bands of tree cover for shade and shelter, acoustic and visual screening, or to mitigate against soil erosion.

Wellbeing

Wellbeing bundles are designed to facilitate the development of green spaces that support mental and physical health. Each bundle contains crab apple, hazel, rowan, silver birch and wild cherry, mid-sized trees selected for their visual qualities and intended as a focus point in natural therapeutic environments.

Large bundles (120 trees)

Blossom & Colour

Blossom & Colour is the most visually focused bundle type, made up of species characterised by their blossoms, berries and autumnal leaves. A mix of crab apple, hawthorn, hazel, rowan and wild cherry, the trees can be used singularly to add colour to open spaces or planted together to establish a diverse native copse.

Nature

Nature bundles are ideal for establishing or expanding green spaces to benefit environmental and community health. Alder, blackthorn, dogwood, goat willow and hawthorn are compact species but with the potential to support a high level of biodiversity when used to create verdant habitat for birds and animals.

Wild Food

Wild Food bundles will appeal to those with a taste for foraging. Featuring a selection of native fruit and nut species (which could be used to produce traditional chutneys and preserves), this combination of blackthorn, crab apple, elder, hazel and rowan is perfect for forest gardens and other productive spaces.

Extra Large bundles (240 trees)

New for the 24/25 planting season, Copse in a Box is our largest tree bundle and contains everything you need to plant approximately 0.1 hectare / 0.25 acre of mixed native woodland (equivalent to about 5 single tennis courts). We have three variations available of which at least one should be suitable for most areas of England. If you require more than 500 trees then please consider our large woodland creation scheme.

Lowland

Lowland for land less than 250m above sea level; a mix of oak, field maple, hawthorn, hazel and silver birch.

Upland

Upland for land more than 250m above sea level; a mix of alder, crab apple, hawthorn, rowan and silver birch

Wetland

Wetland for very damp, rough or low-lying areas; a mix of alder, dogwood, elder, goat willow and silver birch.

We can also support orchard planting and larger woodland creation projects involving 500 or more trees. To apply for one of these schemes, please follow the relevant link from the NHS Forest website tree planting page.

Can NHS Forest support hedge planting?

Much of our work is focused on tree planting as our funding is subject to restrictions around the proportion of shrubs that can be included. As such we typically recommend applicants plant groups of trees wherever practicable to deliver the many benefits of increased canopy in healthcare settings.

However we do understand that hedging may be appropriate for some sites and is itself a valuable asset for biodiversity, and to this end we continue to include a Hedge bundle as part of our tree offer:

Hedge mix

We recommend sites consider planting groups of trees wherever possible to gain the benefits of increased tree canopy and improved flood prevention. However, when planting groups of trees isn’t possible, we do offer a hedge bundle of 60 trees. This creates a hedgerow 15-30 metres long, depending on whether it is planted in single or double rows.

We will endeavour to facilitate as much hedgerow planting as we can within the scope of our grant, but with a view to extending this offer to as many applicants as possible. As such, we will apply the following qualifications to any expressions of interest that include hedging:

We will prioritise all expressions of interest that comprise less than 25% hedging.

For larger projects (upwards of 500 trees) we will prioritise schemes with up to 40% hedging.

Any applications exceeding these thresholds will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Hedge ratio

For reference, your expression of interest currently comprises the following percentage hedging:

Total number of trees requested

Woodland advice

If you are creating a woodland of more than half a hectare, or already manage a woodland on your site, you may be eligible for free woodland advice from us. If this is something that interests you, please check this box and we will be in touch.

Request advice

I manage a woodland

I am planning to create a woodland

About your site

Does your site have any environmental designations?(Required)

Yes

Not sure

Does the tree planting site have water access?(Required)

Yes

Not sure

Do you need support with volunteers? We may be able to facilitate volunteers for your tree-planting event.

Yes

Internal consultation(Required)

I confirm I have consulted with relevant teams within my organisation, eg Estates team, to ensure tree planting is possible on the site named above.

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Download a sample NHS Forest Tree Agreement

Tree agreement form(Required)

I have read the tree agreement form. I understand that trees will only be supplied to me once this form has been signed and I have confirmed that the trees I receive will be looked after appropriately. I understand the land where trees are being planted cannot be developed within the next 10 years. Once your tree order is confirmed, we will send you this form to be signed.
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