Our services
Sharing our skills for the environmental good
We have a wealth of knowledge and experience and are a trusted partner with well-established networks to deliver tangible results – and plant millions of trees. We’ve been around for a long time and we know our stuff. We have a team of trusted experts in-house in areas such as green infrastructure and urban resilience, GIS mapping and community engagement. Please get in touch with us if you feel there’s a service City of Trees can support with.
Introducing our…
Urban Forestry Services Team
In early 2024, we launched our own in-house contract team, now known as our Urban Forestry Services team. Working with job centres, housing providers and other local charities, City of Trees employed six new foresters, including a former volunteer who has since become an assistant crew manager. The team travels to sites across Greater Manchester to plant trees that aren’t suitable for Citizen Forester volunteering events.
The team also maintains existing woodlands that we have planted, giving them the best chance to reach maturity. The in-house team builds on City of Trees as a trusted delivery partner within Greater Manchester. Importantly, having an in-house team means there is far less reliance on using external contractors and keeps resources and skills within the city region.
“I have had the pleasure of working alongside City of Trees and their Urban Forestry Services team regarding various planting schemes within Bolton. I have been very impressed with the product and delivery from the planning stage through to the planting days on site. The team are always polite, cheery and get the job done efficiently.”
Brian Smith, Tree and Woodland Officer at Bolton Council
Other services we provide
Community engagement services
City of Trees has a wealth of experience in community consultation and engagement and can provide consultancy advice and services in this area. Our previous clients in this have been local authorities, housing providers as well as public and private land managers.
We believe that we all have a right to be able to access high quality green environments, that are well used and well maintained by a wide range of people for a variety of purposes. Encouraging and enabling individuals and communities to play their part and feel ownership of our natural places and spaces across Greater Manchester is a crucial part of creating climate resilient and biodiverse landscapes that are cherished by local communities. Engaging people in our natural environment is a great way for people to improve their health and wellbeing.
The Treescapes project is an example of us developing methods for engaging young people in designing, creating and caring for treescapes, including natural woodlands and urban parks. We have been working in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University to co-design woodlands with students across numerous school in Greater Manchester, as well as planting hundreds of trees together.
University research
Since the beginning of City of Trees, and previously as Red Rose Forest, we have always had a close relationship with the universities of the city-region. Our director, Jess Thompson is a PhD candidate working with the University of Salford, School of Health and Society, on exploring the wellbeing impacts of civic environmental activities and has developed the Greenways to Wellbeing a tool to collect quantitative and qualitative data based on 5 Ways to Wellbeing to evaluate nature-based activities.