ANNUAL REVIEW 2011

Our flagship Diamond WoodIn 2011 we launched our Jubilee Woods project, which will celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee by enabling six million trees to be planted across the UK.

We couldn’t have done it without you. Find out what we achieved together last year inside this all-new Annual Review.

GrantsA Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant we received in 2011 allowed us to help private landowners restore planted ancient woodland on their property. We will apply for further funding in 2012 to extend this vital work.

In the beautiful Faughan Valley, Co. Derry, HLF funding of £460,000 enabled us to meet our key objectives of woodland creation, protection, and engagement with the local community.

At Pretty Corner in north Norfolk we received a combination of HLF and European funding for our work on the site, where we are carefully removing conifers and installing a sculpture trail in partnership with the local authority.

Income £000s1 | Legacies 7,8232 | Membership 6,5363 | Public donations 3,7984 | Companies,trustsandlandfilltax 3,3875 | Grants 2,4516 | Woodland management income 1,3147 | Merchandise and lotteries 1,0518 | Investments and bank interest 6159 | Other income 22

Total income 26,997

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Companies, trusts & landfill taxIn 2011, our top four corporate funders – Sainsbury’s, IKEA, Ibuyeco and TK Maxx – enabled the planting of 630,000 trees, funded 2,000 children’s woodland discovery days and allowed more than 10,000 school and community groups to come together and plant trees locally.

Eurocamp, Pearson and Waitrose joined our Woodland Carbon programme. Waitrose is mitigating carbon emissions of its grocery delivery service by planting trees at the MoD site in Warcop, Cumbria.

We celebrated 15 years of working with the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) in 2011, and are delighted that the County Durham Environment Trust donated £350,000 allowing more than 140 hectares of woodland to be created to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

We’re very grateful to the charitable trusts that supported our work in 2011, including a two-year grant of over £60,000 from the Royal Bank of Canada’s Blue Water Project, increasing awareness of the role trees play in water quality and flood management.

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Here’s where our money came from in 2011Welcome to our Annual Review, where we look back over 2011 and talk about what’s changed and the many things you have helped us achieve.

Despite continued economic challenges we managed to secure £27 million in 2011 – a 5 per cent increase on the previous year.

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LegaciesWe owe special thanks to those who kindly remembered the Woodland Trust in their wills. These vital gifts provide more than a quarter of our total funding and support everything we do across the UK. In 2011 gifts from wills totalled £7.8 million, allowing us to plant hundreds of thousands of trees, safeguard our precious ancient woodland and help young and old alike enjoy our wonderful woods.

Last year woods as far afield as Scotland and Devon benefited from legacy gifts. These special funds also enabled us to plant much-needed native trees through our MOREwoods programme.

Public donations & appealsWe held three main appeals in 2011, raising a total of £950,000. We are grateful to all our members and supporters for their gifts.

Our appeal for the acquisition of our flagship Diamond Wood site raised £450,000 from members and supporters.Thanks to this and the generosity of other partners we should soon be able to purchase the site.

Our final appeal launched in December 2011 and helped raise funds for woodland management, helping us improve biodiversity and protect our woods nationwide.

MembershipOur members are crucial to the work of the Trust and we are extremely grateful for all you have contributed in 2011, from volunteering and campaigning to financial support.

We currently have more than 223,000 members – a 10 per cent increase over the last 12 months. We invested in membership in 2011, recruiting new members and providing a range of communication to members including Broadleaf and Nature Detectives club materials to children. The more members we have, the stronger and more powerful our voice when campaigning for the protection of woods and trees. Membership is also an important source of income for the Trust and brings in £6.5 million annually, allowing us to plan for the future.

We are confident that membership will increase further in 2012 and look forward to our new members joining us in creating and protecting woods across the UK.

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Protecting our wooded heritageOaken Wood in Kent is the largest ancient woodland case the Trust fought last year, and we’re grateful to you, our vocal supporters, for helping us secure a public inquiry over the planning application which could destroy this precious wood.

Construction of the High-Speed 2 railway line is due to start in 2016, and the current plans threaten 21 woods. We are a founder member of the Right Lines Charter alongside other organisations including Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and Campaign for Better Transport. We work together to influence the government, aiming to ensure HS2’s impact upon the environment is minimised and that no ancient woodland is damaged.

The government’s proposed changes to English planning legislation saw 11,000 Trust supporters campaign to ensure protection of ancient woodland is included in new planning policy. It’s a great start, but the draft document undermines protection through the ‘presumption for development’, so there’s more to be done in the coming months.

Helping partners create woodsOur partnerships approach has resulted in a diverse range of projects – from the creation of canal-side woodland with British Waterways to the provision of community tree packs in London with the Greater London Authority.

Our large-scale partnership with the Ministry of Defence saw the planting of over 100 hectares of woodland in Cumbria, with funding from North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and carbon finance from Waitrose, Eurocamp, Carrylift, and Pearson.

We also developed planting projects in racecourses and universities, established water catchment projects with the Environment Agency and worked on habitat creation projects with Natural England.

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Expenditure £000s1 | To help create more native woods

and places rich in trees 7,4042 | To protect native woods, trees and

their wildlife for the future 4,819

3 | To inspire everyone to enjoy and value woods and trees 7,094

Conservation expenditure 19,317

4 | Fundraising 2,8985 | Membership 3,7146 | Governance 2117 | Investment management 21

Total expenditure* 26,161

Income less expenditure 836* Includes £563,000 spent on land acquisition

Here’s how we spent itOnthesepagesyou’llfindouthowweused the funds you helped us raise to further our charitable aims in 2011.

Helping the government create the right future for trees and woodsThe short-lived consultation on the future of England’s publicly-owned forests enabled us to launch a campaign urging the government to restore ancient woods damaged by conifers. We also pushed for more protection for woods, no matter who owns them. The campaign is the largest the Woodland Trust has ever run, with 168,000 people signing our petition. When the government reconsidered its plans following the public outcry, it set up the Independent Forestry Panel to look at all aspects of forest policy in England. We are delighted that Trust chief executive Sue Holden is a member of the panel.

Helping communities and landowners plant treesWe are proud to have helped 300 landowners, 2,000 community groups and 17,000 schools plant trees in 2011, enhancing our neighbourhoods, towns and countryside by creating new habitat for wildlife and important new green spaces for people to enjoy. We helped farmers create shelter for crops and livestock, and landowners grow renewable sources of firewood. Our free tree schemes enabled schools to create green spaces for learning and play, and communities to transform public areas with new hedges, copses and individual trees.

We also worked with the Eden River Trust in Cumbria to pilot eight riverside planting schemes, helping improve water quality and reduce soil erosion. By the end of 2012 we hope to have helped over 1,000 landowners plant trees and woods, contributing to a healthy and productive UK landscape.

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Jubilee WoodsTo celebrate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, the Jubilee Woods project aims to create hundreds of Jubilee Woods and 60 special Diamond Woods across the UK. This includes the Trust’s exciting new flagship Diamond Wood in the heart of The National Forest in Leicestershire, which will become a haven for wildlife and be open for all to enjoy.

The project gained momentum in 2011 as we prepared for 2012. We launched jubileewoods.org.uk to share information about all we have planned. Through the site, supporters – including schools, community groups and corporate partners – can pledge to plant trees and request free tree packs, which include a Royal Oak sapling grown from acorns collected on royal estates. We hope that during the year, one million people will be involved in planting a total of six million trees across the UK.

The Ancient Tree HuntAfter five years the Ancient Tree Hunt project, with help from partner organisations and our team of more than 2,000 dedicated volunteers, has added 100,000 ancient trees to our map. They have been recorded from the very north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall, the west of Northern Ireland to the east of Kent, and found anywhere from back gardens to prison grounds and deer parks. The project has been outstandingly successful in raising awareness of ancient trees and their need for protection.

The database continues to be populated through strong links with our partners as we move to a new phase of understanding, using the information gathered to secure better protection for ancient trees.

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FundraisingFundraising is vital to the work of the Trust – the contributions we receive from supporters and partners enable us to achieve our goals for trees and woods. Even in a challenging financial climate, investing in fundraising is crucial as it generates four times as much in income. This enables us to spend 73p per £1 of our income on our charitable aims of creating and protecting woodland and inspiring people to value and enjoy woods.

As always we’re very grateful to you, our individual supporters, who are the lifeblood of our organisation; to companies, who continue to value the benefits of working in partnership with us, and to the organisations who have awarded us grants, which enable us to deliver projects for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Helping people enjoy woodsOur VisitWoods project aims to inspire everybody to discover woods and the joy they have to offer, particularly those who wouldn’t ordinarily visit. As the UK’s online gateway to publicly accessible woods, visitwoods.org.uk had a very successful first year with over 500,000 website visitors. Simply by entering their postcode, users can see details of more than 10,500 woods, including images, blogs and facilities information uploaded by the public and volunteers. This Access to Nature-funded partnership project (with National Trust, Forestry Commission, Wildlife Trusts and RSPB) will continue to develop in 2012 and 2013, with the aim of providing an even wider range of useful visitor information.

Nature’s Calendar, our interactive guide to the seasons, also inspires people to experience the rich nature and wildlife woodland can offer throughout the year. Examples include encouraging outdoor enthusiasts to record where they’ve seen the first snowdrops or cherry blossom of the year, where and when bluebells begin flowering, and when the first autumn leaf tint occurs. These details, collected and compared each year, help us monitor the effects of climate change across the UK.

Welcoming visitors to our woodsHackfall in North Yorkshire won a prestigious Europa Nostra Award for the restoration of its eighteenth-century woodland landscape. Both ITV and the BBC subsequently filmed here, and an art guide was launched to illustrate how Hackfall inspired artists from Turner to the present day. To cap it all, thousands of lucky local schoolchildren enjoyed self-led discovery trails through the wood.

Each year we spend approximately £5 million to keep our woods open to welcome visitors and wildlife. In 2011 we also explored innovative new ways to attract and engage people, informed by ideas from local communities. As a result features and natural resources found in the woods have been enhanced to help visitors orientate themselves and provide opportunities for informal play.

Hundreds of families and woodland lovers joined us for lots of outdoor fun in 2011 as we held events at our woods all across the UK. Days out included a family bushcraft day, an arts festival, treasure trails and picnics.

But we want twice as many people to visit and enjoy our woods, and encourage them all to become actively involved with the Trust and its work. To achieve this, we trialled new entrance signs to some of our woods with the aim of welcoming more visitors and promoting the Woodland Trust’s name more effectively.

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Expenditure £000s1 | To help create more native woods

and places rich in trees 7,4042 | To protect native woods, trees and

their wildlife for the future 4,819

3 | To inspire everyone to enjoy and value woods and trees 7,094

Conservation expenditure 19,317

4 | Fundraising 2,8985 | Membership 3,7146 | Governance 2117 | Investment management 21

Total expenditure* 26,161

Income less expenditure 836

Inspiring childrenThe number of children and families using our Nature Detectives materials skyrocketed in 2011, with 1.5 million downloads from our website. Seasonally-themed packs including activities for the summer holiday and an Advent calendar proved very popular. The total number of Nature Detectives club members exceeded 30,000 for the first time.

We’re delighted to have a total of 4,500 schools participating in our Green Tree School Awards; 600 of these achieved their gold award in 2011, inspiring us to introduce a new platinum award. We also saw the highest ever number of hedge and copse packs being sent to schools, raising the number of children planting a tree with us this year to 860,000.

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• In 2011 we acquired 240 hectares at Lang Craigs near Dumbarton, Scotland, for £500,000

• We planted 2.7 million trees across the UK

• 960,000 people planted trees with us...

• ....860,000 of whom were children

• 450,000 trees were sent to local communities, enabling them to create woods in their own neighbourhoods

• A further 780,000 trees went to schools and youth groups

• We secured 40 Diamond Woods through our Jubilee Woods project, each at least 60 acres in size

• There were 1.7 million visitors to our websites

* Includes £563,000 spent on land acquisition

About our aims1 | CreateThe long-held notion that we’re a ‘green and pleasant land’ has been proved a myth in recent times – we’re actually one of the least-wooded countries in Europe. Trees purify the air, reduce flooding risks, provide homes for our best-loved birds, mammals and insects and form places for relaxation and play. They are our ‘green lungs’ and vital to life. That’s why we’ve pledged to double native woodland cover for people and wildlife in the UK.

2 | ProtectAncient woodland is our richest habitat for wildlife, but since the 1930s almost half of the little we had left has been damaged or destroyed. That means this irreplaceable resource now covers just 2 per cent of the UK, and even these dwindling fragments remain in danger. With your help, we fight for individual cases where woods are under threat and campaign for UK-wide policy changes so safeguards can be put in place to protect all our woodland and the vastly varied forms of life that call it home.

3 | InspireWoods are wonderful places to discover and explore, and have been proved to aid recovery from both physical and mental illness. That’s why we encourage everyone to visit them, young, old, able-bodied or otherwise, and work closely with schools to give every child in the UK the chance to plant a tree. Many of you treasure life-shaping memories of happy childhoods spent in woodland; by helping today’s youngsters form their own we hope to create custodians of the future for our precious woods and trees.

2011 in England

It’s been an exciting year for the Woodland Trust in England and we’re grateful for your support which has enabled us to achieve so much.

We helped plant 840 hectares of native broadleaved woodland in England in 2011, plus another 800,000 trees through our small planting packs for communities and schools. We also discovered the magnificent 190-hectare site in the National Forest which will be the Trust’s flagship Diamond Wood for the Jubilee Woods project.

In partnership with Durham County Council, County Durham Environment Trust and the Forestry Commission, we will create eight Jubilee Woods and one Diamond Wood where we will be establishing a total of 140 hectares of woodland.

We’re delighted to have won a RE:LEAF Award for Joyden’s Wood in Kent, which came first in the ‘trees and learning’ category for projects that engage and involve children. As part of site improvements we’ve fully waymarked two circular paths and installed finger posts to direct people to the main features of the wood. In August, our wood fair here was a huge success with 500 people taking part in activities and events including bat walks, treasure hunts and bushcraft skills.

Robson’s Spring near Helmsley in North Yorkshire welcomed hundreds of visitors this summer to see how planted ancient woodland (PAWS) is restored. Events run in conjunction with the Royal Forestry Society aimed at landowners, forest managers and industry professionals have helped to spread the message of planted ancient woodland site restoration. In total the appeal raised £240,000 nationally with 1,300 Yorkshire members donating.

We have many more projects in the pipeline for 2012. Thank you again for your support.

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WTPL/Richard Becker; WTPL/Margaret Barton; WTPL/Laurence Griffiths.

2011 in Northern Ireland

Your support means we achieved a lot in Northern Ireland in 2011. Read on for a round-up of the highlights.

In August we announced the venue for our Northern Ireland Diamond Wood. This is one of 60 woods being planted across the UK to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Oakfield Glen is a 25-hectare site owned by Carrickfergus Borough Council, just outside Whitehead in Co. Antrim. Princess Anne officially launched Jubilee Woods in Northern Ireland by planting a tree here on 10 November, and local schoolchildren are already using the site as an outdoor classroom.

We have long lobbied to strengthen legislation for our precious trees, and we welcome the increased protection offered by the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011. In particular, the fine for destroying a protected tree has more than trebled from £30,000 to £100,000. Also, a loophole in previous legislation has now been closed. Previously, if a tree was deemed ‘dead’, ‘dying’ or ‘dangerous’ it could lawfully be felled, regardless of its designation. The decision to remove the ‘dying’ clause is good news as species such as oak can spend hundreds of years in graceful decline. The Woodland Trust was heavily involved in the drafting of this legislation and we are delighted that it is now in force.

Carnmoney Hill, one of Newtownabbey’s greatest natural monuments, has seen the launch of a new treasure trail this year. The trail invites nature lovers of all ages to discover the hill’s precious treasures, which include a beautiful new wildflower meadow. The meadow boasts vibrant displays of corn camomiles, cornflowers and corn cockles with scatterings of ox-eye daisies and poppies. We are grateful to Biffaward for their funding of both this project and others at Bashfordsland, Windmill Hill and Galgorm Wood.

WTPL/Brian Aldrich; WTPL/Niall Benvie; WTPL/Andy Fairbairn.

2011 in Scotland

Woodland Trust Scotland had a great year in 2011 thanks to your support. Here’s a snapshot of what we achieved.

Woodland Trust Scotland assisted with the creation of over 180 hectares of native woodland in 2011, and no less than 17 Diamond Woods will be planted here in 2012.

After an 18-month fundraising campaign we finally acquired Lang Craigs, near Dumbarton, in April 2011. The 240-hectare native woodland creation site will link important ancient woodland habitats and has excellent opportunities for access and recreation. Over the coming years, we will plant 200,000 trees here. We’re also working to boost tree planting in the Western and Orkney Isles, and in the north of the country.

Woodland Trust Scotland is a charity partner of the People’s Postcode Lottery (PPL) and in 2011 received £160,000 which was used to fund almost 200 free community tree packs, VisitWoods and the Ancient Tree Hunt. By the end of the year 7,000 ancient trees had been recorded in Scotland.

The then Environment Minister, Roseanna Cunningham MSP, opened the new sculpture trail at Moncreiffe Hill, near Perth, in March. It was the culmination of months of rejuvenation work, including the building of a new car park, tree planting, wildflower sowing and installing fun and interactive walks. More than 400 schoolchildren and local people joined a week of tree planting which was such a success that Moncreiffe Hill was highly commended in the Big Tree Awards 2011.

The SNP’s manifesto for the Scottish Parliament May election included a commitment to a consultation ‘on actions we can take to protect highly biodiverse woodlands’ (referring to ancient woodland). The party is committed to creating 10,000 hectares of new woodland each year, and the Scottish Government has subsequently set up a Woodland Expansion Advisory Group – in which the Trust is playing a key role – to advise ministers on how this target can be achieved.

In 2011, Woodland Trust Scotland enabled over 67,000 people to plant 120,500 trees through people engagement partnerships and tree-planting packs. Though we’re delighted with this, we anticipate even greater things in 2012.

2011 in Wales

Your support helped the Woodland Trust in Wales (Coed Cadw) have a fantastic 2011. Here are a few of the highlights.

Before the Welsh Assembly elections in May we produced our own manifesto and encouraged our supporters to ask candidates to sign up. One third of those elected to the new assembly had signed pledges in the manifesto, including the protection of ancient woodland sites and a doubling of native woodland cover.

We have seen great success in our work with the farming community. Following the distribution of 20,000 copies of our guide ‘Trees on Farms in Wales’ and our presence at agricultural shows including the Royal Welsh Show, we received nearly 400 enquiries from landowners about woodland creation on their property. We’ve also been pleased to tell Welsh farmers about the new Glastir woodland creation grants, which can offer up to £9,000 per hectare for tree planting.

Two Diamond Woods in Wales are among the first to be planted for the Jubilee celebrations in 2012. One is at Ffos Las, where a former opencast coalmine has been filled and landscaped and is now home to a new racecourse, overlooked by 26 hectares of new woodland. This will provide a sustainable local source of birch branches, which are used to construct the jumps at the site, and enhance the existing wildlife value of the site, part of which is managed positively to maintain a breeding population of lapwing. Prince Charles planted a commemorative oak at Ffos Las on his visit in June.

The second Diamond Wood is at the Bluestone holiday resort in Pembrokeshire, where 24.3 hectares of woodland are being planted.

Restoration of Trust-owned ancient woodland has continued at Plas Power, near Wrexham and at Wentwood near Newport, while Green Castle Wood in Carmarthenshire will see the planting of small numbers of trees in fields of flower-rich meadows to form wood pasture, a formerly widespread form of land use that particularly encourages the survival of ancient trees. At Wentwood, the largest ancient woodland in Wales, gradual transformation to native woodland is continuing to improve the habitat for a wide variety of species including nightjars, goshawks, spotted flycatchers, pipistrelle, lesser horseshoe and long-eared bats, dormice, otters and voles plus the high brown fritillary and pearl-bordered fritillary butterflies.

NHPA/Melvin Grey; WTPL/Colin Baglow; WTPL/Paul Glendell.

CHARITABLE TRUSTS £1,000 and over

Ashford TrustBanister Charitable TrustBehrens FoundationCalleva FoundationChapman Charitable TrustCharities Aid Foundation

(CAF)Clark Bradbury Charitable

TrustCoda Wildlife TrustColles TrustDavid Killick TrustDavid Solomons Charitable

TrustDonald Forrester TrustEricson TrustFour Winds TrustG D Herbert Charitable TrustGalanthus TrustGlasgow Tree Lovers SocietyGolden Bottle TrustGunter Charitable TrustHadrian TrustHenry C Hoare Charitable

TrustHon M L Astor’s Charitable

TrustIan and Elizabeth Church

Charitable TrustIngram TrustJ & J R Wilson TrustJohn Horseman TrustJohn Jarrold Trust LtdJohnson Wax Limited

Charitable TrustJosephine Ewbank TrustJVAN TrustLangdale TrustLeche TrustLeggett TrustLinda and Gordon Bonnyman

Charitable TrustLord Faringdon Charitable

Trust

Mark Leonard TrustMartin Connell Charitable

TrustMary Lady Fuller Charitable

TrustMichael Marks Charitable

TrustMichael Shanly Charitable

TrustMr T H N Allen Charitable

TrustNorman Family Charitable

TrustOrmsby Charitable TrustPamela Matthews Charitable

TrustPaul Bassham Charitable

TrustPauline Meredith Charitable

TrustPeacock Charitable TrustPeter Courtauld Charitable

TrustPtarmigan TrustRevere Charitable TrustRichard Radcliffe Charitable

TrustRonald Miller FoundationRothschild FoundationRufford FoundationScouloudi FoundationShareGiftShears FoundationSir James Knott TrustSouth Square TrustSpear Charitable TrustStephen Clark 1965

Charitable TrustStuart & Margaret Miller

Charitable TrustSunrise (Sidmouth) TrustSylvia Aitken Charitable TrustTanner TrustThames Wharf CharityTory Family FoundationUnited Spiritualists

CORPORATE SUPPORTERS

ALD AutomotiveBarclaycardCalor Gas LtdCarryliftCFH Total Document

Management LimitedClassic CottagesDelta-SimonsDorothy PerkinsDorset CerealsDoubleTree by HiltonEnvironmental Business

Products LtdEurocampGolden CharterHammonds Furniture LtdHonda UKHovalH&MibuyecoIKEA UK LtdIndigo Furniture LtdiSpy BooksJo MaloneKernow CoatingsLakelandMarks & Spencer plcMars PetcareMediciMieleNBC InternationalNetwork RailONI PlcPearson PlcPenguin Books LtdPremier Paper GroupRonseal LtdRWE npowerSainsbury’sShanly HomesShP LtdSimons Group

SRK ConsultingTesco Freetime LtdThe Camping and

Caravanning ClubThe Co-operative Bank plcThe Disney Store LimitedTJX EuropeTotal RefrigerationWaitroseWHSmith Retail LtdThe Wren PressYellow Pages

GRANTS £5,000 and over

Big Lottery FundCountryside Council for

WalesDefraDepartment of Agriculture

and Rural DevelopmentEuropean Structural FundsFife Environment TrustForestry Commission

EnglandForestry Commission

ScotlandForestry Commission WalesForest Service Northern

IrelandHeritage Lottery FundHigh Weald AONBKent Downs AONBNatural EnglandNorthern Ireland

Environment AgencyPerth and Kinross

Countryside TrustRural Payments AgencyScottish GovernmentScottish Natural HeritageThe Tubney Charitable TrustWelsh Assembly

GovernmentYorkshire Dales Millennium

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THANK YOU We are grateful to the following organisations and individuals who supported the Trust during 2011.

LANDFILL COMMUNITIES FUND £5,000 and over

BiffawardCounty Durham

Environmental TrustCory Environmental TrustCumbria Waste Management

Environment TrustGrantScapeLancashire Environmental

FundSITA TrustVeolia Environmental TrustWRENYorventure

LOCAL AUTHORITIES £5,000 and over

Carmarthenshire County Council

Carrickfergus Borough Council

East Sussex County CouncilGreater London AuthorityHerefordshire CouncilKing’s Lynn and West

Norfolk District CouncilSouth Hams District Council

LEGACIES £5,000 and over

Mr D J AbbottMiss E A W AndersonMrs E AshbeeMrs E L AshmoleMiss H M AtkinsonMrs F M AustinMr I V Balfour PaulMrs M BarnesMr R BarnettMr J H BescobyMiss D BeveridgeMrs J J BoonMrs G C BrammerMr S R BreadingMrs E Brunton

Miss J E E BuckMrs A R E BurfootMrs P L CainMr N A CallowMiss P M ChamberlenMiss M ChandlerMrs D ChappelowMiss J D ClaytonMiss C P L Cooke Miss D R A CooperMr J M S CowanMrs J CraneMr J CreweMrs D I CrisfieldMiss J E CroftMs F E CrowsleyMr M J DareMiss J DavidsonMrs S DesmondMr P S E M DickensMs B DirkinMrs H M DodworthMr J A DriscollMrs M H DrummondMs J M DruryMiss P E DuboisMr D A EasonMr F EdwardsMr A K M ElliottMiss H J EllisMiss P M EllstonMs M E FieldMs M A FisherMrs W M FoxMiss P M FrenchMrs D E FulcherMr P GilbertMs J M A GoochMr K A GourlayMs P A GriffithMr A J GrimesMiss K G M HaddockMiss E G HanmerMr G W HatfieldMiss J M HaywoodProfessor R HillMiss D L HobbsMiss B I Hockmuth

Mrs M A HoldenMr G C HollandsMrs P K HollandsMrs E M HoulstonMrs E M HowardMrs V InnesMiss B A JonesMr L E JonesMs S N JonesMrs J G KennerMiss B M KirbyMrs N M KirienkoMiss B C LangleyMiss M Large Mr D T W LeathamMr M LoweMr A T LudlowMrs M M F M LynnMiss H R MackanessMs R M MartinMrs H J MathersMrs L P MilnerMiss P J MoellerMiss M E MoodyMiss M U MorrisMiss P A MyersMrs A M NankivellProfessor K I B S NeedhamMr P R NewmanMiss A C NowillMr D J OddMrs M W PageMr J B G ParkerMs J M R ParsonsMr R W PartridgeMr P G PearceMiss D PennyMrs M A PerrinMrs J PiskorMr R F PotterMrs D E PozniakDr A B RawsonMiss G R Rees ThomasMr A E S A ReynoldsMiss W L RobertsMr D F RobertsMrs E R RobertsMs J A Roberts

Mrs J Ross-CollinsMr R C ScottMrs M ScottMrs M A SeeleyMiss E M SharpeMs J ShewringMiss D J ShoreyMiss E E SmithMr D L SmithMr F W SmithMiss J C SmythMr W SpoorsMs V N StaceyMiss J V StanleyMrs P M StevensMrs B M B StevensonMiss M D StoneMiss M I StoneMiss B B StricklandMr A StringerMrs B O StroudMs D J SuttonMs R H SyfretMrs E M ThompsonMiss N D TuckerMrs B N TurnerMrs D M Turner Mr D J ViveashMr H E WatersMrs I E WatersMr J M WebberMr K E WebsterMs R C WebsterMrs H WestMrs G M WilkesDr A J WilliamsMrs J M WindwoodMs G WitteringMr E F WoodwardMrs J WrigleyMiss E C G WynneMrs E E Youell

Mr J A Young

The Woodland Trust Kempton Way, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG31 6LL (Registered office)

The Woodland Trust in Northern Ireland 1 Dufferin Court, Dufferin Avenue, Bangor, County Down BT20 3BX

Woodland Trust Scotland South Inch Business Centre, Shore Road, Perth, Perthshire PH2 8BW

The Woodland Trust Wales (Coed Cadw) 3 Cooper’s Yard, Curran Road, Cardiff CF10 5NB

01476 581111 woodlandtrust.org.uk

The Woodland Trust logo is a registered trademark.The Woodland Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales no. 294344 and in Scotland no. SC038885.

A non-profit making company limited by guarantee. Registered in England Number 1982873.Cover image: WTPL/Laurence Griffiths. 5036 02/12

The income and expenditure figures were extracted from the full audited and unqualified accounts for the year ended 31 December 2011. Copies can be obtained from woodlandtrust.org.uk or by applying to the Trust’s head office in Grantham.

The annual accounts have been submitted to the Charity Commission, the Office of the Scottish Charity regulator, and Companies House.

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2011

Our flagship Diamond WoodIn 2011 we launched our Jubilee Woods project, which will celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee by enabling six million trees to be planted across the UK.

We couldn’t have done it without you. Find out what we achieved together last year inside this all-new Annual Review.

2011 in England

It’s been an exciting year for the Woodland Trust in England and we’re grateful for your support which has enabled us to achieve so much.

We planted a total of [TBC] hectares of native broadleaved woodland in England in 2011 and had notable successes in woodland creation, in particular the discovery of the 450-hectare site in the National Forest which will be the Trust’s flagship Diamond Wood for the Jubilee Woods project. In partnership with Durham County Council, County Durham Environment Trust and the Forestry Commission, we will also create eight Jubilee Woods and one Diamond Wood where we will be establishing a total of 140 hectares of woodland.

We’re also delighted to have won a RE:LEAF Award for Joyden’s Wood in Kent, which came first in the ‘trees and learning’ category for projects that engage and involve children. As part of site improvements we’ve fully waymarked two circular paths and installed finger posts to direct people

to the main features of the wood. In August, our wood fair here was a huge success with 500 people taking part in activities and events including bat walks, treasure hunts and bushcraft skills.

Robson’s Spring near Helmsley in North Yorkshire welcomed hundreds of visitors this summer to see how planted ancient woodlands (PAWS) are restored. Events run in conjunction with the Royal Forestry Society aimed at landowners, forest managers and industry professionals have helped to spread the message of planted ancient woodland site restoration. In total the appeal raised £250,000 nationally with 1,300 Yorkshire members donating.

We have many more projects in the pipeline for 2012. Thank you again for your support.

woodlandtrust.org.uk/reviewThe Woodland Trust

Kempton Way, Grantham, Lincolnshire. NG31 6LL

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The Woodland Trust logo is a registered trademark. Registered in England Number 1982873.The Woodland Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales no. 294344 and in Scotland no. SC038885.

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GrantsWe were awarded a £24,000 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant in 2011, allowing us to help private landowners restore planted ancient woodland on their property. We will be applying for further funding of £2 million in 2012 to extend this vital work.

In the beautiful Faughan Valley, Co. Derry, HLF funding of £1.4 million enabled us to meet our key objectives of woodland creation, protection, and engagement with the local community.

At Pretty Corner in north Norfolk we received a combination of HLF and European funding for our work on the site, where we are carefully removing conifers and installing a sculpture trail in partnership with the local authority.

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1 | Legacies 7,8232 | Membership 6,5363 | Public donations 3,7984 | Companies,trustsandlandfilltax 3,3875 | Grants 2,4516 | Woodland management income 1,3147 | Merchandise and lotteries 1,0518 | Investments and bank interest 6159 | Other income 22

Total income 26,997

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Companies, trusts and landfill taxIn 2011, our top four corporate funders alone – Sainsbury’s, IKEA, Ibuyeco and TK Maxx –helped us create over 40 hectares of woodland, enabled us to plant an impressive 630,000 trees, and funded 2,000 woodland discovery days for children. Their generous contributions also allowed over 10,000 school and community groups to come together and plant trees in places local to them.

Working togetherIn 2011 Eurocamp, Pearson and Waitrose joined our Woodland Carbon for Business programme. Waitrose will reduce its grocery delivery carbon footprint by planting

LegaciesWe owe special thanks to those who kindly remembered the Woodland Trust in their wills. These vital gifts provide more than a quarter of our total funding and support everything we do across the UK. In 2011 gifts from wills totalled £7.8 million, allowing us to plant hundreds of thousands of trees, safeguard our precious ancient woodland and help young and old alike enjoy our wonderful woods.

Public donations & appealsWe held three main appeals in 2011, raising a total of £800,000. We are grateful to all our members and supporters for their gifts.

Our appeal for the acquisition of our flagship Diamond Wood site raised £450,000 from members and supporters, meaning we should soon be able to purchase the site.

Our final appeal launched in December 2011 and helped raise funds for woodland management, helping us improve biodiversity and protect our woods nationwide.

MembershipOur members are crucial to the work of the Trust and we are extremely grateful for all you have contributed in 2011, from volunteering and campaigning to financial support.

We currently have more than 222,000 members – a 10 per cent growth over the last 12 months. We invested £2 million on membership in 2011, recruiting new members and providing a range of communication to members including Broadleaf and Nature Detectives club materials to children. The more members we have, the stronger and more powerful our voice when campaigning for the protection of woods and trees. Membership is also an important source of income for the Trust and brings in about £5 million annually, allowing us to plan for the future.

We are confident that membership will increase further in 2012 and look forward to our new members joining us in creating and protecting woods across the UK.

To view this document online, including a full roll of honour detailing individuals and organisations to whom we owe special thanks for their support in 2011, go to

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Here’s where our money came from in 2011Welcome to our all-new Annual Review, where we look back over 2011 and talk about what’s changed and the many things you have helped us achieve.

Onthispageyou’llfindoutwhereourmoney came from in 2011; open the pages to see how we spent it on furthering our charitable aims.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2011

Our flagship Diamond Wood

In 2011 we launched our Jubilee Woods project, which will

celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee by enabling six

million trees to be planted across the UK.

We couldn’t have done it without you. Find out what we

achieved together last year inside this all-new Annual Review.