Business & Corporate Sponsorship

Notes on Sponsoring Trees

• Our next tree planting season will run December 2026 - March 2027.

• For sponsorship projects, costs are between €5/£5 per tree and up to €30/£30 per tree for fruit and nut tree projects.

• Please contact our team to discuss plans and costs per tree.

• Sponsored trees are planted at appropriate sites as small woodlands, shelter belts, coppices, hedgerows, wood-pasture, orchards, individual trees, rows and avenues of trees, landscape and amenity trees, reforestation and agroforestry projects.

• Trees are planted on farms and smallholdings, at community projects, in schools and colleges, at sports clubs, on hospital grounds and with many other landowners who look after and manage the trees as they grow.

• We plant native Irish trees grown in Ireland from Irish seed. The most common species we plant are downy birch, common alder, oak (sessile & pedunculate), Scots pine, hazel, rowan, crab apple, hawthorn & blackthorn.

• You can plant trees for any purpose, for example you may wish to plant a tree for every sale the business makes, for a business anniversary, for every employee or for every client.

• We will work with you to craft a project that meets your needs and fits with your budgets.

• We welcome sponsors and corporate volunteers who would like to help out with tree planting. Trees are planted December to March each year and we encourage sponsors to rally a team and join in with the planting work.

• When your tree planting is completed, we will provide you with a detailed planting report, showing where your trees have been planted, who will be looking after them, the species mixes used, management details and all sorts of other information.

• You’ll be able to visit your trees as they grow and establish. Sponsors work teams are always welcome to come and help with maintenance work such as weeding, re-stocking and pruning in future years.

• Monitoring of trees & re-stocking: We monitor trees until they are five years old to ensure successful establishment. Additional trees are supplied and planted for re-stocking failed trees as needed.

• All trees become the property of the landowner at the point of planting on agreement that they will be sustainably managed as permanent continuous tree cover.

• We work to establish permanent continuous tree cover that will be managed as a sustainable resource for many generations. We don't guarantee that every tree will live to old age (though many will). Selected trees may be thinned, coppiced or felled in future years, some trees will blow down in storms, others may be attacked by pests and diseases. Trees drop seed and/or put up new growth from the roots; continuous cover management allows constant regeneration and permanent tree cover in the landscape.

• Carbon: We are often asked if we can plant trees to offset carbon for businesses. We don’t offer a formal carbon offset service; this is because Ireland doesn’t yet have a regulated system for measuring or calculating carbon locked up in the diverse kinds of mixed-species tree cover that we plant for our projects. There are further complexities around ownership of the trees, the land they are planted on and the carbon stored in the trees and the soils. Trees provide many benefits and ecosystem services and carbon is certainly one of them; we outline all of the benefits of trees for each project rather than focusing on carbon. We are always happy to discuss carbon in more detail with businesses - please do get in touch if you have any queries at all.

• Donations and sponsorship funds are used for the following:

  • Assessment, planning and design of tree planting projects.

  • Purchasing trees: We buy a large number and variety of trees each season for our planting projects.

  • Packing, labelling and distribution of trees.

  • Planting of trees: Whilst most of our communities and landowners plant their own trees, we occasionally employ specialist planting teams to ensure high quality planting work at larger or more complex planting sites.

  • Monitoring of trees & re-stocking.

  • Other costs: Coordination costs, insurance, packaging materials, office and packing centre running costs, administration, communications and reporting.