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.
Urban Forestry Services Team
In early 2024, we launched our own in-house Urban Forestry Services team. Working with job centres, housing providers and local charities, we created new opportunities for people to develop practical skills and build careers in the forestry sector.
The team works across Greater Manchester, planting trees in parks, greenspaces and on private land, as well as maintaining existing woodlands we have planted to give them the best chance to reach maturity.
Having our own in-house team strengthens City of Trees as a trusted delivery partner, while reducing our reliance on external contractors and helping to keep skills and resources within Greater Manchester.
Find out more about our Urban Forestry Services team and the work they deliver across Greater Manchester.
Other services we provide
University research
We have strong relationships with the city-region’s universities, as well as those out of area. Recent and current research areas include:
- Supporting the work of Dr Daniel Niepsch (Manchester Metropolitan University) and UBU on research to transform road sweeping waste into reusable, non-waste soil products
- Working with Dr Ian Drew (Manchester Metropolitan University) on water quality as part of our natural flood management project at Crompton Moor, Oldham
- Our CEO Dr Jess Thompson’s (University of Salford) PhD research 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.