Our Annual Report

An annual update on how we have performed in the previous year.

The North East Community Forest is celebrating the results of another successful tree planting season. 

In the last year the Forest, made up of planting projects across Northumberland, Newcastle, Gateshead, North and South Tyneside, Sunderland and urban areas of County Durham have planted almost 300,000 trees. 

This equates to an area of over 164 gross hectares, the 5th largest amount planted in the network of 15 Forests within the England Community Forest network.

A total of 17.4 kilometres of hedgerows were also planted with the support of over 2,124 volunteers from local communities across North East England. 

The newly planted trees and hedgerows are estimated to capture approximately 50,872 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over 30 years. 

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Previous annual reports

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