Severn Treescapes - FAQs

Arrange a visit with a Severn Treescapes advisor to discuss how you could incorporate more trees into your land to shade livestock, reduce soil erosion, provide buffers to watercourses, improve connectivity for wildlife or how to manage existing trees and woodland. We can also advise on pond, scrapes and other wetland enhancements. 

We can offer suggestions for how to access funding for tree planting schemes including woodlands, hedgerows, wood pastures, parklands, traditional orchards and agroforestry or to deliver management and protection.

There are a range of schemes available for small and larger planting, including Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and non-RPA schemes.

We can also put you in touch with other relevant organisations who can advise on other aspects. 

Contact our Severn Treescapes team for information on:

• Incorporating more trees into your farming system, for example through hedgerows, wood pastures, parklands, traditional orchards, agroforestry, shelter belts, small or larger woodland creation
• Available tree and woodland grant schemes including Environmental Land Management schemes, Forestry Commission grants for woodland creation and management, England Woodland Creation Offers, green finance initiatives and more
• Managing an existing woodland, orchard or hedgerows 

The Severn Treescapes team work closely with communities, parishes and landowners. If you belong to a community group that would like to get involved with tree planting, please get in touch because we have landowners that are always looking for a spare pair of hands.

Parish and town councils may be looking for advice on planting and managing community woodlands, orchards or hedgerows, or just adding a few key trees to local greenspaces, while local communities could be interested in growing those trees to be planted in local locations.

The Severn Treescapes team can help to identify suitable planting sites, provide advice on tree planting grants and help the community to collect and grow native tree seed for local plantings - a great way to engage children with their community and develop an appreciation of and responsibility for their local environment.

For planting, management and grants advice, please contact our Severn Treescapes team.

The project is working across three neighbouring counties. If you own land that isn't in Worcestershire or overlaps county boundaries, you can find more local information on the following websites:

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Herefordshire Wildlife Trust