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Aviva will match fund donations for tree seeds
We need to raise the funds so people can grow more trees. And thanks to a fantastic offer from the Aviva Community Fund we can double Read more
Artistic tribute to Sycamore Gap will fund new trees
An artistic tribute to the Sycamore of Hadrian’s Wall is to be auctioned for charity, one year on from when the iconic tree was felled by Read more
Volunteers needed to help create new woodland
Nature lovers across the north are being invited to take part in an enterprising project to bring more trees into our lives. Seeds2Trees aims to enable Read more
Our new HQ
The north’s leading woodland management social enterprise, Living Woods, is moving to a new HQ at Hexham in the Tyne Valley. Living Woods CIC work to Read more
Sycamore Gap – an iconic tree lost (for now!)
Northumberland, the rest of the UK and further afield, awoke on Thursday morning to the shocking news that the famous Sycamore Gap tree had been felled. Read more
SEEDS2TREES – Round 2 recruitment is still open
PLEASE NOTE: ROUND 2 IS NOW CLOSED; ROUND 3 WILL BE OPEN SOON, PLEASE EMAIL US FOR MORE INFORMATION. Our recruitment for Round 2 of SEEDS2TREES Read more
Our new brand
We are still the same Living Woods – and still based in the North East. But you may have noticed that we have a slightly different Read more
Record tree planting day with refugees!
On Saturday 9th of March Living Woods North East hosted a tree planting in Washingwell Woods in Gateshead with members of Newcastle’s Conversation Group, many of Read more
Our First ‘Woodland Works’ Days
Coppicing with Students & Willow Cutting with Volunteers With Mark Shipperlee joining as a director we now have a new facet to our work – not Read more
The Need For Seed
Did you know that many trees do not produce seed every year – and years of abundant seed are often known as “mast years”… …originally Read more