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A guest blog by Vivienne Barton

People living in Brighton and Hove can reel off a list of reasons why they like living here; the sea, the Downs; the city’s architecture, the Royal Pavilion, The Lanes with its quirky shops and winding alleyways. But few people will nominate trees as one of the city’s best assets. Yet Brighton has many world class trees which deserve to be much better known.

A look at the aims of campaign group Save London Trees - bringing together tree protection groups across London and pushing for a London-wide strategy to save mature trees

Nataliia Starikova interviews Bruce Saunders for the Urban Tree Festival

Saunders Seasonings is an award-winning timber business based in London and Essex, producing their own London-sourced low carbon hardwoods for businesses, makers and designers big and small.

Most of their timber comes from trees felled in and around London; trees that would otherwise be chipped and burned. Instead, they recycle and repurpose them, giving them a second life and ensuring the carbon stays in the wood.

By Cerrato – Halls

‘Universal Species Suffrage’ is a fictional scenario that looks at how politics would change if all species could not only vote, but were given equal rights to humans. In the form of a role-playing workshop, participants enter this world as one of five species, voting on a series of issues and helping form the first non anthropocentric government.

A blog from Sustainable Life Birmingham

A free online tree identification walk around Ten Acres Park and Woodland in Stirchley Birmingham and some complimentary kids activity pages. Learn how to identify trees in spring and more.

entangle/embrace by Claudia Molitor is a new project that will become an outdoor and online performance event, taking place around, and inspired by trees. For the project's first research event we want to hear from you about your stories connected to either specific trees or a tree species. You can share your stories with us at the public ‘entangling’ of a score around a tree, or e-mail us your story.

A guest post by Alex Mair

The Lucas Gardens Tree Trail is a 30 - 45 minute self guided tree walk. You’ll learn of tree species from across the globe, from China to the American Deep South. While we may be unable to travel abroad we can experience nature from across the world in Lucas Gardens.

A guest blog from Trees4Grenfell

Trees4Grenfell CIC is an environmentally progressive group of people tackling urban pollution hotspots of pollution. We also aim to plant as many trees as we can to honour the victims, survivors community and all who suffered even by watching the tragedy of Grenfell fire.

A guest blog by Polly Read

Aesthetic and environmental aesthetics notes about trees.

A guest blog by Caro Jones.

Exploring the ancient woodland of Epping Forest and the sprawling waterways of Hollow Ponds is good, for the soul whatever time of the year. And in the extraordinary year of 2020, the forest and ponds bordering London and Essex provided me with a place of tranquility and calm amongst the chaos of the outside world.

A guest blog by Liberty Rowley of Mall Galleries

Trees let us breathe, spending time with them is good for our mental health and may even make us kinder, so it's only right we celebrate them in paint.

A guest post from Julian Pooley

It was chance that led me to contact Andrew Stuck in April 2020. I spotted his online request for expressions of interest in contributing to a virtual Urban Tree Festival during Lockdown and wondered whether my short talk about trees in landscape and memory in the Surrey archive might be relevant…

A guest blog from Edinam Edem-Jordjie

Edinam is the New Museum School Trainee at the National Trust, based within the London Creative Team & Garden and Outdoors Team at Morden Hall Park.

A blog post from Robin Walter

The web of life is often worn thin in our towns and cities – fewer plants and animals are spread over hard surfaces resistant to the creep of nature; the normal cycling of water, air and nutrients is interrupted by hot tarmac, unyielding concrete and a cocktail of pollution. Yet four out of five of us live in towns and cities – no wonder as a culture we feel cut off from the natural world!

Forest Talk Radio is a ‘GPS-triggered audio experience that brings you into the world of trees’ produced by award-winning Canadian David Merleau.

Geoff Sample is a contributor to Urban Tree Festival, who specialises in bird song and natural soundscapes recording.

As #ShakespeareSunday @HollowCrownFans is celebrating the Urban Tree Festival with @TiCLme this week with the theme of ‘Trees and Cities’ we thought it would be a good moment to ask…

How well do you know your urban trees … and how well do you know your Shakespeare?

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.So read Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and so it is with trees.

TiCL Media Ltd is delighted to provide the TiCL system – App and website, to support the 2020 ‘virtual’ Urban Tree Festival.

A Guest Blog from author and leadership coach and .
Join Jackee for a well-being workshop where you will locate the important lessons you can learn about yourself through the writing with trees journal prompts.