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Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, hands a free Woodlands Trust sapling to 13-year-old Betty Green as part of the WMCA's Right Tree, Right Place campaign earlier this year 2022

Woodland Trust provides £300k funding to boost tree planting across the West Midlands

Staff ReporterOctober 6, 2022October 8, 202201 mins

The Woodland Trust has delivered a major boost for communities across the region by providing nearly £300,000 to ramp up tree planting and help the West Midland Combined Authority (WMCA) tackle climate change. The funding will be used by the WMCA to establish the West Midlands Forest Partnership which will help partners reach their tree…

More than 50,000 trees have already been planted and registered in the West Midlands Virtual Forest

Trees are being given away to encourage West Midlands residents to build ‘Virtual Forest’

Staff ReporterFebruary 23, 2022February 23, 202201 mins

Up to 400 saplings will be given away across the region this half-term week to encourage more people to get growing and boost the West Midlands Combined Authority’s Virtual Forest. The authority’s (WMCA) Right Tree, Right Place campaign has visited Birmingham, and will call at Wolverhampton and Coventry later this week to hand out the potted…