CCF towards 18 million trees leaflet

Clyde Climate Forest 2026

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18 million trees

Our mission is to plant trees and encourage others to plant trees, in line with our vision to create new woodlands across Glasgow City Region. We are a small team with big ambitions, and since 2021 there have been over 4 million trees planted in the region, meeting our aims of providing shade, mitigating flooding, extending woodland habitat, and sequestering carbon.

This is a fantastic achievement by all our partners and has been done with heartfelt thanks to those supporting the CCF initiative.

Chris Stark, Director of CCF

Launched in 2021 with support from all eight regional Council Leaders. Scotland’s first Climate Forest

More than 4 million trees planted

Over 800 volunteers engaged (including schoolkids, communities and corporate volunteers)

Key awards

RSPB Nature of Scotland Awards 2024 – Highly Commended

Scotland’s Finest Woods Urban Forestry Award 2025 – Highly Commended

Key ‘bookend’ events

First plantings ahead of COP 26 in 2021

Celebrating Glasgow’s 850th birthday with 850 trees in the ground at the start of the 2025/26 planting season

Snapshot of activity

Planting for community benefit

The CCF Executive Team have worked tirelessly toward our specific objectives for the Clyde Climate Forest to benefit nature, climate and people. And, with millions of trees now in the ground, our new Tree Wardens are out and about looking after our emerging climate forest.

Planting to create woodland nature networks

For National Tree Week, which marked the start of the 2025/26 planting season, the CCF team were in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, extending an area of woodland to provide shade near a play park. Trees planted in our Target Neighbourhoods provide an array of benefits to local communities vulnerable to climate change.

We have identified over 200 locations across our region where broadleaved woodland creation could link existing habitat – helping woodland wildlife survive and adapt as the climate changes. Our projects linking Cocksburn and Bellsfield in South Lanarkshire serve as critical connectivity strengthening ecological networks.

Protecting and maintaining woodlands with our Tree Wardens

We now have a team of almost 50 volunteer Tree Wardens helping to look after the more than 10,000 urban trees planted to date across Glasgow City Region.

“I have always been interested in the natural world and the environment but having worked full-time in offices all my life I have never really got as involved as I would have liked. Being retired now, I can dedicate some of my time to this sort of activity. It is nice to be able to contribute something positive to the environment”

Funders & Supporters:

“In the six months I have been a Tree Warden I have been involved in a variety of activities including new tree planting and surveying and maintenance of existing trees. I have also received training to develop my Tree Warden skills including tree identification, tree pests & diseases and fruit tree pruning & grafting.”