Easter Trees begins Easter 2027. I’m in →
For eco & nature charities

A small spring ritual, in service of pollinators.

Native blossom — wild cherry, hawthorn, blackthorn, crab apple — opens in the early spring weeks when many bees are foraging. Easter Trees gives your members a calendar-anchored, household-scale thing to do, year on year, that feeds early pollinators and grows a national blossom season.

~50% UK pollinating insect populations have declined by roughly half since 1970 (State of Nature 2023). Early-spring nectar is one of the most pressing gaps to fill — and one a household can help close.

How we avoid willy-nilly planting. Easter Trees doesn’t set a top-down planting plan. Landowners do. Every community planting site on our map publishes its own tree palette — species suited to that site, soil and aftercare capacity. Households planting at a community site bring a tree that matches the palette; households planting at home use our species guide. Garden centres see the postcode-level demand build and stock accordingly. So site-suitability is decided by the people who know each site.

Honest about what we can and can’t do. We don’t supply trees — households buy from local garden centres. So we do what we can: we promote UK-grown stock, we prioritise native blossom species, and we ask partner garden centres to publish where each tree was grown. We’re also honest that willow, hazel and hedgerow species feed early pollinators richer than blossom does — if you have land for those, plant them too.

What happens when

Our roadmap, with your decision points alongside.

  1. We publish what we’ll plant and where it’ll come from.
  2. Your board cycle. Our governance and named advisors public by then.
  3. We share what we know — including voluntary household check-ins on first-year survival, and what we still can’t measure.
  4. The first Easter Trees plantings — Easter Sunday or any day in the week that suits.

Together we’d…

  • Help shape the species list and sourcing standards.
  • Name an ecologist or horticulturalist to our advisory group.
  • Help us decide how we’ll measure success in Year One.
  • Mention Easter Trees to your members in spring 2027.

What we’d give back

  • A founding-partner slot. Year One is small and named — we’re building the proof together.
  • Public credit on the species and sourcing standards — mission alignment, never product endorsement.
  • Anonymised regional demand data for your own campaign work.
  • First call on partner-led work if Easter Trees develops surplus revenue later. No defined per-tree mechanic — we won’t pretend one exists.
  • Founder access — Tara directly, not via an agency.
For faith communities

A small Easter Sunday gathering, on church land.

Easter Trees sits naturally across Lent and Easter Sunday: a tree comes home in Lent, is decorated, and is planted on Easter Sunday or any day in the week after — in a garden, a churchyard, a school field. There’s a separate page for clergy who’d like a line they can use; we’re working with parishes who want to host a planting on church land.

~12,000 parish churches in England, most with churchyards already in stewardship. Many would welcome a small annual planting that brings the parish together at Easter.

What happens when

Our roadmap, with your decision points alongside.

  1. We publish a practical pack for clergy and churchwardens — sermon outline, prayer of blessing, FAQ, churchyard checklist.
  2. You mention it at the autumn PCC.
  3. We send a pew-sheet line and name your regional contact.
  4. The parish gathers — planting on Easter Sunday or any day in the week that suits.

Together we’d…

  • Open a churchyard, church field, or manse garden for one Easter planting.
  • Mention it to your congregation in the run-up to Easter.
  • Name a parish lead so households know who to ask.

What we’d give back

  • A practical pack for clergy — sermon outline, prayer of blessing, churchwarden FAQ, churchyard checklist.
  • A named regional contact for the parish.
  • The for-ministers page — the theology in plain English, no preaching from us.
For corporates & B-Corps

From a global brand to your local firm — there’s a way to back this.

Easter Trees scales with your ambition. Anchor the national campaign. Sponsor a Blossom Corridor through your city. Donate trees to local schools. Plant a tree at your office on Easter Sunday. Run a team planting day. Lend your branding agency or your photographer for a week. Whatever fits — we’d love to talk.

From £100 to £100k+ Easter Trees scales from a single sponsored planting on your high street to a national anchor partnership. The right ask depends on you, your team, and your year.

What happens when

Our roadmap, with your decision points alongside.

  1. We publish the Corporate Partner Pack — opportunity menu, HQ-planting toolkit, indicative pricing, ESG measurement.
  2. You take it to your CFO, sustainability board, or comms director.
  3. Together we confirm anchor and regional sponsors; pro-bono partnerships kicked off.
  4. Office Easter Tree planted, team planting day on a date that suits, trees-for-schools delivered, photography rights.

Some ways to get involved

Sponsor at any scale

  • Anchor partner. Name at the top of the campaign, foreground in all media, year-round co-branding. Two or three slots for Year One.
  • Region or vision sponsor. Anchor a city, county, or specific vision — churchyard rings, school orchards, hedgerow gaps.
  • Blossom Corridor sponsor. Fund every tree along a high street, towpath, railway embankment, or school gate run.
  • Local planting sponsor. Back a single Easter Sunday planting in your area — perfect for a small business with a local presence.

Activate your team

  • Office Easter Tree. A symbolic blossom tree at your HQ, planted on Easter Sunday weekend.
  • Team planting day. Paid time off, an organised planting at a community site, photography included.
  • Per-employee Easter Tree kits. Every colleague takes one home to plant with their family — a perk that lasts a generation.

Give trees through us

  • Trees for schools. Fund a free Easter Tree for every child at a chosen primary or for every school in your area.
  • Trees for families. Underwrite a no-cost option for households who’d otherwise miss out.
  • Sponsor a community vision. A hospice garden, a memorial orchard, a churchyard ring — named, hosted, planted.

Lend your skills

  • Branding agency — visuals, asset library, brand system.
  • PR firm — press for spring 2027.
  • Photographer / film-maker — documenting Year One.
  • Legal, tech, data — pro-bono support for the CIC.
For councils & authorities

Residents-led. Council-light. Spring story.

Easter Trees is delivered by households, not the council. We bring the campaign, the stock pipeline, and the public map. You signpost residents and (optionally) open underused council land. It fits cleanly alongside your Biodiversity Net Gain work without adding to your delivery load.

10% Biodiversity Net Gain duty on every council since February 2024. Easter Trees gives residents a way to contribute that doesn’t add to your delivery load.

What happens when

Our roadmap, with your decision points alongside.

  1. We publish a council pack — a draft cabinet paragraph, an MOU template, the safeguarding and insurance position.
  2. Your cabinet briefing window, with verified demand for your area.
  3. You put it to cabinet; we name an officer contact for residents.
  4. Together for the spring residents’ comms cycle — planting any day across Easter weekend or the week after.

Together we’d…

  • Mention it in your spring residents’ comms.
  • (Optional) Open a small piece of council-managed land for one Easter planting.
  • Name an officer contact for households needing access advice.

What we’d give back

  • A council pack — cabinet-paragraph draft, MOU template, safeguarding and insurance position.
  • Demand data for your area, anonymised — useful evidence for cabinet.
  • A spring press story your comms team can pick up.

For parish councils — this is much lighter. A 5-line agenda item to note and signpost; we’ll send a short paragraph for your noticeboard or newsletter.

For volunteers

Easter Trees grows because real people put their hands up.

We need ambassadors who tell their network. Organisers who help one local planting happen. Social helpers who reshare. Regional contacts who put their hand up. None of it is a full-time ask — an hour here and there, on your own clock, around the season.

One small thing If every signed-up household tells one neighbour and one local group, the campaign reaches every postcode in Britain by spring 2027 without a single paid advert.

What happens when

Our roadmap, with your decision points alongside.

  1. You sign up via the homepage form — tick “Volunteer”.
  2. We run a regional volunteer push and match you to a role and a region.
  3. You activate as day-of-event organisers, ambassadors, and photo coordinators.

You could…

  • Be a regional ambassador — the friendly face for your area.
  • Help one local landowner host their first planting.
  • Reshare and post in spring 2027. The cheapest, most powerful reach we have.

What you’d get

  • A clear role with a known time commitment.
  • A small community of fellow volunteers and a named contact.
  • A real story to tell — you helped start a tradition.

Want to talk?

Fifteen minutes on the phone is the best first conversation. Book a slot directly — or email Tara if you’d rather start in writing. We’d rather build the right partnerships now than chase logos in March.