National Tree Week
First mounted in 1975, National Tree Week - 26th November - 4th December - is the UK's largest tree celebration annually launching the start of the winter tree planting season.
National Tree Week is a great chance for communities to do something positive for their local treescape.
Each year, Tree Council member organisations such as voluntary bodies and local authorities, up to 200 schools and community groups, 8,000 Tree Wardens and many others, support the initiative by setting up fun, worthwhile and accessible events, inspiring upward of a quarter of a million people to get their hands dirty and together plant around million trees.
Do you want to be part of this great collective achievement?
To find out about the kind of activities which took place in your area last year, for inspiration and to see what’s happening this year, simply visit www.treecouncil.org.uk
The Tree Council
Founded in 1974, with government backing, The Tree Council is the umbrella body for UK 
organisations involved in tree planting, care and conservation.
The idea was to keep momentum of National Tree Planting Year 1973 (with its slogan of "Plant a Tree in '73").
Today the Tree Council's members range from professional non-governmental specialist and trade organisations, including other conservation charities, to local authorities and government bodies.
One of The Tree Council's first actions (in 1975) was to organise National Tree Week.
Since then members of the royal family, including The Queen and Queen Mother, every Prime Minister at Chequers, and many more public figures have planted trees on behalf of The Tree Council as part of the winter planting festival.
National Tree Week has become UK's largest annual celebration of trees and woods.
More recently they have introduced other annual initiatives such as the Tree Care Campaign, Walk In The Woods month and Seed Gathering Season.