Charity led national street tree sponsorship scheme. We help residents work with their councils to plant more urban trees. Let’s fill our streets with trees.
Tell us 📢 where you’d like your street tree 🌳 planted.
When a resident sponsors a tree through
@treesforstreets
, they get to say where they’d like it planted. Their council does a survey. If all ok, a tree is put in that following winter.
Trees transform streets🌳
Next time you're walking along a tree-lined pavement, think for a moment, about how much of a difference they make..
Let's fill ALL our streets with trees
Something missing🤔?
There's literally tens of thousands of miles of UK roadside where trees 🌳 could be planted. Some locations easier than others. The scale of the urban forest that could be created is immense. Let's create a national street forest.
👉
Street trees help us feel happier...
..a bold claim, but one backed up by a recent German study, that showed that living in proximity to street trees saw a reduction in the level of anti-depressants prescriptions.
So let's fill our streets with trees!
Best time to plant some shade🌳was 20 yrs ago, the 2nd best time is NOW!
(This is Richard, a tree officer in
#Croydon
He planted 186 EXTRA trees, this year, through
@treesforstreets
- funded by sponsorship donations)
Let's fill our streets with trees!
Trees transform streets 🌳
Next time you're walking along a tree-lined pavement - think for a moment - just how much of a difference they make...
Let's fill ALL our streets with trees 👉
@treesforstreets
We’re called
@TreesforStreets
but perhaps we should be
#TreesforShade
Since the heatwave🌞started, many people are telling us they specifically want street trees planted to provide more shade🌳
The climate IS changing, we NEED to adapt ALL our streets
How does a tree-lined street make you feel🤔?
The sound of bird-song. The wind through the leaves. The dappled light. The green breaking up the grey. The presence of nature.
Pretty good??
All streets deserve trees 🌳🌳🌳
With or without?🌳❌
What d'you think when you see these 2 images?
Which street would be cooler on a hot day? Would you hear birdsong? Would you enjoy walking? Would the cars drive slower? Would you prefer to live on?
We think all streets deserve trees
Something missing🤔?
There's literally tens of thousands of miles of UK roadside where trees🌳could be planted. Some locations easier than others.
The scale of the urban forest that could be planted is immense
Let's create a national street forest 🌳
👉
Street trees encourage walking 🌳🚶♂️
Trees make our streets more inviting. When you stroll down a tree-lined avenue, it feels different—more sheltered, more stimulating.
This pleasant environment encourages people to get out and walk or cycle. It’s that simple!
A simple way street-trees🌳improve our health is by encourage
#walking
🚶
We like being in tree-lined streets. Trees separate us from the roadway. Encourage slower driving 🚗 offer shade in summer, stunning colour in Autumn and absorb pollution
🌳🌳🌳🌳
Street forest-bathing 🧘🌳
The well-being benefits of forest-bathing are well known
We say, bring these benefits into the world outside our front doors 🏡
There’s potential to add millions of trees into UK’s streets, to create a 🌳national street forest🌳
@TreesforStreets
Trees transform streets🌳
Next time you're walking along a tree-lined pavement, think for a moment, about how much of a difference they make..
Let's fill ALL our streets with trees
Street trees encourage walking 🌳🚶🌳
It’s simply more pleasant being in a tree-lined street.
🌳The street scene looks great.
🚗Trees encourage drivers to slow down.
🌞Shade in summer, and stunning colour in autumn.
💨Trees help absorb pollution.
Tree-lined streets are
Never think you can't make a difference...🌳🌍
Marie-Louise sponsored this beautiful tree in her street. She also tends to the rain-garden 💧🌻 it's planted in.
Our actions create ripples that lead others to act.
Green your world👉
@TreesforStreets
🌳
Let’s celebrate our street trees🌳🌸
They tell us spring has arrived. Bring nature into our midst. Fill our streets with glorious colour, even on a day like today. Lift our spirits.
A world without streets trees would be a far poorer place.
👉
Traffic 🚗calming 🧘♂️trees🌳
We love seeing trees included within traffic calming measures. Fact🔖 cars drive more slowly down tree-lined streets. There are some great uses of trees at crossing points, in build-outs, and where rat 🐀 runs have been closed
🌳Tree-lined streets are good for our
#mentalhealth
It’s a fact that proximity to 🌳nature is good for our
#mentalwellbeing
A grey concrete landscape is good for no one. 🧘♂️So let’s bring nature to where we live, in our streets and outside our homes 🏡
🌳Trees = street air-conditioning ❄️
As much as we love hot sunny weather 🌞 it’s a lot more pleasant experiencing it living on a shady tree-lined street.
Tree-less streets become concrete suntraps - hot and uncomfortable.
Green streets are healthy streets👍🌳
@TreesforStreets
Street trees an inconvenience? 🌳🤔
We still meet people who think street trees are an inconvenience, but with words like ‘heatdome’ & ‘flashflooding’ appearing more often in weather reports, it’s all too clear, they are a necessity
🌳Trees help protect us from extreme weather
The role of street trees 🌳in reducing flash-flooding🌊
Simply, they SLOW THE RATE🏃♂️rainwater builds up in our streets 👇
🫴Holding water in their canopies
🧽 Roots enable the ground to absorb more water
Plus 🌳🌳🌳they cool our cities, thus lowering air moisture
Pretty cool😎
Q. Your street too narrow for trees🌳? A. Build out into the road 💡
We park cars🚗 in the street – but that doesn’t make it a car park
Let’s make trees and greenery a feature of ALL our streets. Aspire to live in garden streets🌳🌻> healthy streets
👉
This 🇫🇷 French car park says a lot about the importance of trees for creating shade and cooling in summer 🌞⛱️🌳
We need to be planting MANY more trees in our streets, (yes) car parks & city spaces if we are to adapt to an ever warming climate.
Look 👀 up
Every now and then, when you’re walking along the street, stop and look up. You’ll be surprised to find yourself surrounded by some magnificent trees 🌳
Soak up a moment of calm 😌on us 👇
Do trees ACTUALLY keep us cool?
We decided to get out there and measure the ground temperature 🌡️ in the sun ☀️ and under the shade of a tree 🌳
The results speak for themselves 👇
Tree 🌳 planting season 🍾
It’s great seeing all the sponsored trees 🌳 being planted - funded by residents and local businesses up and down the country
It’s also rather satisfying watching this tree being secured with bio-degradation fabric ties
👉 🌳
🌳Trees – just make our streets look amazing😎
We spend a lot of time talking about how urban trees help keep us cool, reduce pollution, restore nature, help us adapt to climate change, calm traffic etc
But lets just🥂celebrate how great they look, and how that makes us feel🙂
Check out these massive water pumps🌳🫧
Each day street trees🌳are literally pumping out💪 gallons of water 🪣🪣into your local air. This is called transpiration.
This helps regulate your local climate - producing a cooling + humidifying effect. Making where you live more
Trees🌳🟰Street air-conditioning❄️
With temperatures🌡️set to soar today, street trees really come into their own💪
⛱️Provide cooling shading
🫧Add moisture to the air (transpiration)
🔋Reducing energy usage (less air-con)
They can cool your street by as much at 5 degrees 🙏
Something missing🤔?
There's literally tens of thousands of miles of UK roadside where trees 🌳 could be planted. Some locations easier than others. The scale of the urban forest that could be created is immense. Let's create a national street forest.
👉
Something missing🤔?
There's literally tens of thousands of miles of UK roadside where trees🌳could be planted. Some locations easier than others. The scale of the urban forest that could be planted is immense
Let's create a national street forest 🌳
👉
Street trees help us feel happier...😃🌳
..a bold claim, but one backed up by a recent German study, that showed that living in proximity to street trees saw a reduction in the level of anti-depressants prescriptions 💊
So let's fill our streets with trees! 👉
@TreesforStreets
It's our favourite time of year - 🌳tree planting season!
🗓️Winter is the best time to plant trees. They are dormant 😴, will suffer less stress 🧘♀️, and can focus on root development 💪.
This gives them the best start for putting on growth in spring 🌸🌳and summer 🌞
Planting more street trees🌳
This years sponsored trees are being planted right now as part of
@treesforstreets
National Street Tree Sponsorship Scheme. Residents can select locations 🧭for planting, and if approved 👍will be put in that coming winter ❄️
Paving over front gardens makes local flooding worse 🌊
Rain🌧️that falls here immediately goes into the rainwater system. Drains are overwhelmed, river levels rise too rapidly. Result = flooding🚣♀️
We need our land to act more like a sponge🧽Greener streets = better streets🌳🙏
How does a tree-lined street make you feel🤔?
The wind through the leaves. 🍂 The dappled light. ☀️ The presence of nature. 🌳
Pretty good?
All streets deserve trees 🌳🌳🌳
You can literally feel the power💪of these street🌳trees..
..as they quietly..
🧽Clean the air
⛱️ Keep this street cool
🐞 Create a home for nature
🧘Lift our well-being
Let's fill all our streets with trees🌳🌳
Street trees 🌳help us feel happier..😃
..a bold claim, but one backed up by a recent German study, that showed that living in proximity to street trees saw a reduction in the level of anti-depressant prescriptions.
So let's fill our streets with trees!
The role of street trees🌳in reducing local flooding🌊
With over 600⚠️flood warnings following
#StormHenke
, we should be looking at more natural ways to reduce flooding.
Urban trees act like sponges, enabling the ground to absorb more water 🧽
Trees help slow the flow🌊🫷🌳
🌳Trees – just make our streets look amazing😎
We spend a lot of time talking about how urban trees help keep us cool, reduce pollution, restore nature, help us adapt to climate change, calm traffic etc
But lets just🥂celebrate how great they look, and how that makes us feel🙂
This is your weekly tree watering reminder ⏰💧🌳
Yes, it's
#Wateringwednesday
again. A bucket or two on a young street tree is much appreciated. Increasingly survival rates and better growth
Thank you to Cambridge resident, Marie-Louise for looking after this tree so well 🙏
Let's stop complaining about the unmown grass verges - they're feeding the bees 🌻🐝
...and let's get used to a more natural aesthetic, where nature is put first. After all we rely on these insects for our survival.
#NoMowMay
Watch as these trees quietly clean the city air 🌳
No song and dance. No fuss. In London, it's estimated, every year, they remove up to 2,000 tonnes of PM10 pollution particles. These are the type considered harmful to us humans.
We thank you for your service 🙏
Cars 🚗drive more 🛑slowly on 🌳tree-lined streets
We all know that trees are good for the environment, but a lesser known fact is that they help reduce the average speed people drive.
A🌳tree-lined street is therefore a safer street 🚸
👉
#roadsafety
Heard of the 3-30-300 rule?
👉For mental and physical wellbeing, city residents should have:
👀3 trees within sight of their home
🌳30% canopy cover in their neighbourhood
🚶300 meter walk to the nearest park
Another reason to fill our streets with trees!
Trees🌳🟰Street air-conditioning❄️
With temperatures🌡️set to soar this week street trees really come into their own💪
⛱️Provide cooling shading
🫧Add moisture to the air (transpiration)
🔋Reducing energy usage (less air-con)
They can cool your street by as much at 5 degrees 🙏
Best graffiti we’ve seen in a while.
#Banksy
eat your heart out 😎
Please note - this is a temporary art installation🖼️, which will soon be replaced with a beautiful street tree🌳
Interested in supporting this kind street art near where you live?
👉
Streets are better with trees🌳
All too often our planners prefer bollards & other hard landscaping features. We need to think 🤔differently and incorporate more 'green’ infrastructure. Bollards don’t make for healthier more liveable streets, trees do
👉
Q. Your street too narrow for trees🌳?
A. Build out into the road 💡
We park cars🚗in the street – but that doesn’t make it a car park
Let’s make trees and greenery a feature of ALL our streets. Green streets = Healthy streets🌳🌷
👉
Would you give up a couple of parking spaces🚗🚗 if it meant you could have some trees🌳 in your street? 🤔
Often there can be a straight choice - a parking space for a tree. This is particularly so in very narrow streets. It's a point of a lot of debate...
Interested in planting a tree 🌳🏘️ in your street?
Requests made now, get planted over the winter period (Nov23-April24). Subject to utility checks.
@treesforstreets
is the national community-led🧑🤝🧑street tree🌳 sponsorship initiative.
🧑🤝🧑+🌳+🚿=👍
See our locations 👇
Where have all the trees gone?🌳❌
This street, like many others in the UK is suffering from the side-effects of off-street parking🚗. There is almost nowhere a tree can now be planted.
The impacts are many: a loss of visual amenity, no shade, suffers worse in heavy rain,
Just 2 months to go🗓️before the start of tree planting season🌳 If you'd love a new tree in your street...
...just visit
@treesforstreets
📱and if we're working in your area📌 you can request to donate a new tree and pledge to take on the watering🚿
🌳👉
It's our favourite time of year - tree planting season! 🌳
Winter is the best time to plant trees as the soil is wet, with plenty of rain to water young trees 🌧️
This gives them a chance to establish before the warmer months ☀️
With a
#heatwave
just announced in the UK - we're certainly feeling grateful for the shade street trees offer 🌳
Cool down your street by sponsoring a street tree
With
#summer
around the corner and temperatures rising in the Northern Hemisphere, how grateful are you for the shade
#trees
provide in your
#city
?☀️🏙️
By providing shade and through evapotranspiration,
#urbantrees
can lower surface temperatures by up to 8°C🌳
#TreesinCities
Trees and green spaces help slow the rate of rainwater build up in our streets simply by acting like giant water hoovers 🌳
This is a great example of forward thinking and making space for urban nature 🌻
Local residents planting shade⛱️🌳
New street trees have been popping up all over the seaside town of
#Worthing
thanks to the support of local residents and businesses 🙏
We've been delighted to work with
@adurandworthing
Council help make their town a greener place to live.
Too many tree-less streets ⛔️🌳
📢We're calling for a 🌳national street forest 🌳to fill the thousands of miles of empty kerbside
We're told we're short on space, but roads offer the opportunity to plant millions 🌳🌳
Bring the many benefits of 🌳 to where we actually live🧑🤝🧑🏡
📣 New urban air-filtration system available now!🎉
💡💡Trees 🌳🌳
Ok, ok, so not that new - indeed trees have been quietly doing this work for us all along 🌳🌬️
Removing harmful pollutants, whilst pumping out fresh oxygen. All for free.
Let's fill our streets with trees.
#WateringWednesday
Join our campaign to get people out watering NEW street trees 🌳🚿🧑🤝🧑🩷
Every Wednesday we're putting out the call📢to give your nearest new street tree a drink. Your help will ensure that new trees survive to reach their full potential💪
👉
@TreesforStreets
🌳
Tree planting season 🌳 Hidden heroes 💪
There's lots of people involved in the tree planting process.
@Treesforstreets
works with council tree officers, highways engineers, councillors, and tree planting teams (see📽️)
A big THANK-YOU from us 👉
How does a tree-lined street make you feel🤔?
The sound of bird-song. The wind through the leaves. The dappled light. The green breaking up the grey. The presence of nature.
Pretty good??
All streets deserve trees 🌳🌳🌳
👉
Our climate is changing🌇 Our streets must also change 👉🌳
Too many are still tree-less and grey. During heatwaves they overheat, posing serious health risks. Streets dominated by concrete cannot cope with
#climatechange
🌳Let’s plant the trees we need for a cooler future 🌳
‘On very hot days, I keep my walks confined to the tree-lined streets, so much cooler…more comfortable’, David told us.
…and it’s true, on days like today, greener streets really come into their own. They make our built spaces safe and liveable.
Where would you rather walk?
It's
#WateringWednesday
- ALL young street trees 🌳need a weekly drink 🚿
Join a growing army of residents who do that bit extra to help look after their new trees 🧑🤝🧑🌳🚿👍
Yes, your council waters, but this isn't always enough. Your help WILL make all the difference. 🙏
Q. Your street too narrow for trees🌳?
A. Build out into the road 💡
We park cars🚗in the street – but that doesn’t make it a car park
Let’s make trees and greenery a feature of ALL our streets. Aspire to live in garden streets 🌳🌷= Healthy street
👉
The role of street trees🌳in reducing flash-flooding🌊
Simply, they SLOW THE RATE🏃♂️rainwater builds up in our streets👇
🫴Holding water in their canopies
🧽Roots enable the ground to absorb more water
Plus🌳🌳🌳they cool our cities, thus lowering air moisture. Pretty cool😎
Hey it's
#WateringWednesday
again - time to pop out and give your nearest NEW street tree a good watering 🌳💧💚
We can all play a part in giving newly planted trees the best start in life. Look after them now and they'll look after you for decades to come.
PLEASE SHARE
We may have found another
#Banksy
? Ok maybe not, but this is better..💡
..it's a temporary art installation🖼️, which will soon be replaced with a beautiful street tree🌳
Interested in supporting this kind street art near where you live?👉
@TreesforStreets
Car 2 Trees 0
Sadly all too often off-street parking🏠🚗 is limiting the opportunity to plant street trees 🌳 This removes any future potential to green-up🌻 these streets condemning them to a grey future
⛔️Potential planting locations need protecting⛔️
We ALL need to play a part in creating a greener future🌍
Bringing up a young child, Philippe understands this only too well.
He’s taken the simple, but powerful step, of sponsoring and pledging to water a new street tree🌳
Our actions all add up
When you’re out waking 🚶♂️look up 👀every now and then, you’ll be in for a treat🤩
There are some truly magnificent street trees 🌳hiding in plain site. In winter ❄️they show their naked beauty
We’re programmed to appreciate their fractal appearance
👉
Local residents planting shade ⛱️🌳
Over the moon to visit this🌞sun-baked South London street where the council has marked 6 spots for trees to be planted this winter.
🙏A big thank-you to the local resident who's sponsorship has made this possible
Wooden posts or trees? 🤔
All too often planners prefer bollards & other hard landscaping features. We need to think differently and incorporate more 'green’ into our built infrastructure.
#Bollards
don’t make for healthier more liveable streets, trees do🌳
👉
@TreesforStreets
Check out this new street-based air-filtration system
Air pollution is a sad fact of urban life. One measure we can take is planting more street trees:
🥅Capture particulate matter
🧽Absorb harmful gases
🫁Produce oxygen
🫧Release water vapour &
😀other beneficial compounds
When you look at this street, it's not hard to understand why trees 🌳are so good for our mental health🧘♀️
We all deserve to have nature on our doorsteps 🏡🌻
Let's fill our streets with trees!
#mentalhealth
#Wellbeing
Street trees need your help! 🌳🚿
If you're lucky enough to have had a new tree planted in your street. Then yes, your council will be watering it, but you can make all the difference to how well it establishes by watering it yourself over the new few months.
#WateringWednesday
Streets are better with trees🌳
All too often our planners prefer bollards & other hard landscaping features. We need to think 🤔differently and incorporate more 'green’ infrastructure. Bollards don’t make for healthier more liveable streets, trees do
👉
This junction has been transformed 🪄by widening the pavement and planting a tree🌳 It never needed to be so wide📏 but now offers a safer place to cross and a shady-haven just outside a local school🧑🎓
#Streettrees
🌳are an integral element in healthier more human focused streets
Street forest-bathing 🧘🌳
A recent study found - 'that when people can see trees, there is an increase in their mental wellbeing, and this lasts at least eight hours.'
We say, bring these benefits into the world outside our front doors 🏡
@treesforstreets
🌳🌳
Tottenham neighbours crowdfund trees🌳🌳 for entire street
A massive well done🥂to this local group of neighbours who’ve managed to crowdfund to green up their tree-less street in
#Tottenham
It’s amazing what a community can do when they work together👇
Alfresco☕️ so much nicer with the simple addition of a tree🌳
Planting street trees gives local retail a boost🚀
It's not rocket science🤔The space looks more attractive + is more comfortable 👉 People stay longer 🕓 They spend more money💵
Let's fill our streets with trees!
Hooray for the humble hedge. It's National Hedgerow Week!
A much overlooked street inhabitant is the hedge. It doesn't just add visual appeal, it also:
🥁Reduces noise
🚗Captures pollution
🐞Creates an environment for wildlife
🫧Reduces localised flooding
😎And creates a sense
Would you like a tree🌳outside your house🏠?
📌 Tap the location in our app
💻 Submit a sponsorship request
🔍 Your council surveys
🌳 If ok, a tree is planted
🚿 You even get to water it
👉 🌳🌳🌳
Every🏫school-run🚸deserves trees🌳
The better the walk to school, the more you walk🚶♂️to school
Street trees make walking feel safe. Create separation from the road🚗 Reduce pollution. Cast shade 🌞⛱️. Shelter from rain. Connect us with the seasons.
👉
🌳Trees in polluted urban areas linked to reduction in asthma related hospital visits
A study into the impact of urban greenery on asthma suggests that respiratory health can be improved by the expansion of tree cover in very polluted urban neighbourhoods
Trees = healthy cities
Hooray for the humble hedge
A much overlooked street inhabitant is the hedge. It doesn't just add visual appeal, it also:
🥁Reduces noise
🚗Captures pollution
🐞Creates an environment for wildlife
🫧Reduces localised flooding
And creates a sense of privacy 😎
What's not to love
This junction has been transformed 🪄by widening the pavement and planting a tree🌳 It never needed to be so wide📏 but now offers a safer place to cross and a shady-haven just outside a local school🧑🎓
#Streettrees
🌳are an integral element in healthier more human focused streets
With or without?🌳✖️
What d'you think when you see these 2 images?🤔
Which street would be cooler on a hot day? Would you hear birdsong? Would you enjoy walking? Would cars drive slower? Would you prefer to live on?
We think all streets deserve trees
👉
Check out these massive water pumps🌳🫧
Each day street trees🌳are literally pumping out💪 gallons of water 🪣🪣into your local air. This is called transpiration.
This helps regulate your local climate - producing a cooling + humidifying effect. Making where you live more
Street trees even help reduce crime…🌳🧑🤝🧑
How?🤔
..by creating more liveable/attractive neighbourhoods, where more people want to spend time outside. Promoting cohesion, better health, and civic pride.
Evidence…🔎
…a US showed from Baltimore showed, that a 10 percent increase
The value of an (existing) tree🌳
We love planting new trees, but there's NOTHING as precious as an old tree. The word graphic from
@Barchamtrees
says it all..
Visualise a 100 year old beech, almost 20 metres high and with a treetop diameter of 12 metres. It’s got 600,000
Tree sponsors are bringing colour to their streets 🌼🌷🌸
Walking down tree-lined streets filled with flowers in bloom lifts your spirits, and makes the neighbourhood look like a wonderful place to live.
Let's
#GreenTheGrey
🌳
Guess what used to 'live' here?🤔 That's right, a tree 🌳
There are thousands upon thousands of empty locations across our streets where trees used to 'live'.
Let's make it a priority to re-green our streets. Let's create a new
#nationalforest
🌳🌳🌳🌳
👉
Simon wanted to help green up his street. So he decided to a sponsor a new tree🌳
He told us where he wanted it📌His local council conducted a survey🔍and a year 📆later we had a happy Simon😎
@treesforstreets
helps residents work with their councils to plant more trees