How we are funded

A remarkable 31% of our income came from gifts kindly left in wills, and they funded one third of the six million trees we planted last year. We were also very grateful to be donated Walters Woods, a sweep of ancient beechwoods in the Chilterns – one of our most generous gifts of land ever.

Find out more about leaving a gift in your will to the Woodland Trust.

More than 27,500 new people became Woodland Trust members last year. In all, around half a million supporters now help our cause by becoming members, making donations and giving their voice and time as volunteers.

Find out how to become a member of the Woodland Trust.

Our family of corporate partners includes Sainsbury’s, Lloyds Banking Group, OVO and TK Maxx. The last year saw teams from Aviva and Bettys & Taylors Group mucking in to plant trees at Snaizeholme, our high and mighty project in the Yorkshire Dales.

Find out more about our partners.

We were blown away by the generosity of our loyal army of supporters, and this share of our income included £300,000 from tree champions who dug deep to support our work restoring the UK’s precious rainforests.

We've supercharged this area of our fundraising since 2018, when it brought in £3.6 million.

One beneficiary last year was the Bunce survey – our landmark botanical survey of woods across the UK, co-funded by Defra, Natural England, the Welsh Government and more.

This includes our income from sponsorship and shop sales, as well as cash we reap from thinning our woods to restore them to health.