The Big Tree Plant is a campaign to encourage people and communities to plant more trees in England’s towns, cities and neighbourhoods.

Launched by Defra and the Forestry Commission in 2010, The Big Tree Plant is supported by a number of partner organisations including The Tree Council, Trees for Cities and Groundwork and will see a million new trees planted by 2015.

The Big Tree Plant has so far seen over 475,000 trees planted across the country with funding already allocated to 152 groups who will be planting more than 965,000 trees.

Latest news

• Last round of grant funding - The next deadline for funding applications is 31 August 2013. This will be last funding round for The Big Tree Plant.