ANNUAL REVIEW 2011

Our flagship Diamond Wood

In 2011 we launched our Jubilee Woods project, which will celebrate Queen Elizabeths Diamond Jubilee by enabling six million trees to be planted across the UK. We couldnt have done it without you. Find out what we achieved together last year inside this all-new Annual Review.

Heres where our money came from in 2011

Welcome to our Annual Review, where we look back over 2011 and talk about whats 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.

Income
1| 2| 3| 4 | 5| 6| 7| 8| 9| Legacies Membership Public donations Companies,trusts and landfill tax Grants Woodland management income Merchandise and lotteries Investments and bank interest Other income

000s 7,823 6,536 3,798 3,387 2,451 1,314 1,051 615 22

Total income

26,997

Grants
A 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.
WTPL/Andrew Butler

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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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Companies, trusts & landfill tax

In 2011, our top four corporate funders Sainsburys, IKEA, Ibuyeco and TK Maxx enabled the planting of 630,000 trees, funded 2,000 childrens 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 Queens Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Were 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 Canadas Blue Water Project, increasing awareness of the role trees play in water quality and flood management.
WTPL/Paul Glendell

Legacies
We 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.

WTPL/Colin Varndell

Membership
Our 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.
Isobel Cameron WTPL/Laurence Griffiths

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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.

Public donations & appeals

We 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.

Heres how we spent it

On these pages youll find out how we used the funds you helped us raise to further our charitable aims in 2011.

Helping partners create woods

Our 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.

Expenditure
1 | To help create more native woods and places rich in trees 2 | To protect native woods, trees and their wildlife for the future 3 | To inspire everyone to enjoy and value woods and trees Conservation expenditure 4| 5| 6| 7| Fundraising Membership Governance Investment management

000s 7,404 4,819 7,094 19,317 2,898 3,714 211 21

Protecting our wooded heritage

Oaken Wood in Kent is the largest ancient woodland case the Trust fought last year, and were 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 HS2s impact upon the environment is minimised and that no ancient woodland is damaged. The governments proposed changes to English planning legislation saw 11,000 Trust supporters campaign to ensure protection of ancient woodland is included in new planning policy. Its a great start, but the draft document undermines protection through the presumption for development, so theres more to be done in the coming months.

Total expenditure* Income less expenditure

* Includes 563,000 spent on land acquisition

26,161 836

Charlie Hedley

Helping communities and landowners plant trees

We 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.

Jubilee Woods
To celebrate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeths Diamond Jubilee, the Jubilee Woods project aims to create hundreds of Jubilee Woods and 60 special Diamond Woods across the UK. This includes the Trusts 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.

Helping the government create the right future for trees and woods
The short-lived consultation on the future of Englands 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.

WTPL/Nick Spurling

The Ancient Tree Hunt

After 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.

WTPL/Steven Highfield

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WTPL/Laurence Griffiths

Fundraising
Fundraising 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 were 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.

WTPL/Pete Holmes

Welcoming visitors to our woods

Hackfall 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 Trusts name more effectively.

Helping people enjoy woods

Our VisitWoods project aims to inspire everybody to discover woods and the joy they have to offer, particularly those who wouldnt ordinarily visit. As the UKs 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. Natures 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 theyve 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.

Expenditure
1 | To help create more native woods and places rich in trees 2 | To protect native woods, trees and their wildlife for the future 3 | To inspire everyone to enjoy and value woods and trees Conservation expenditure 4| 5| 6| 7| Fundraising Membership Governance Investment management

000s 7,404 4,819 7,094 19,317 2,898 3,714 211 21

About our aims

1 | Create
The long-held notion that were a green and pleasant land has been proved a myth in recent times were 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. Thats why weve pledged to double native woodland cover for people and wildlife in the UK.

2 | Protect
Ancient 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.

Total expenditure* Income less expenditure

* Includes 563,000 spent on land acquisition

26,161 836

3 | Inspire
Woods are wonderful places to discover and explore, and have been proved to aid recovery from both physical and mental illness. Thats 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 todays youngsters form their own we hope to create custodians of the future for our precious woods and trees.

Inspiring children
The 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. Were 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.

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

Second Sight Video

2011 in England
Its been an exciting year for the Woodland Trust in England and were 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 Trusts 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. Were delighted to have won a RE:LEAF Award for Joydens Wood in Kent, which came first in the trees and learning category for projects that engage and involve children. As part of site improvements weve 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. Robsons 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.

istock; WTPL/Laurence Griffiths; Copyright Dean Mitchell, Used under licence from Shutterstock.com

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 Queens 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 Newtownabbeys 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 hills 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/Richard Becker; WTPL/Margaret Barton; WTPL/Laurence Griffiths.

2011 in Scotland
Woodland Trust Scotland had a great year in 2011 thanks to your support. Heres 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. Were 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 Peoples 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 SNPs 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 were delighted with this, we anticipate even greater things in 2012.
WTPL/Brian Aldrich; WTPL/Niall Benvie; WTPL/Andy Fairbairn.

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. Weve 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.

THANK YOU
CHARITABLE TRUSTS 1,000 and over Ashford Trust Banister Charitable Trust Behrens Foundation Calleva Foundation Chapman Charitable Trust Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Clark Bradbury Charitable Trust Coda Wildlife Trust Colles Trust David Killick Trust David Solomons Charitable Trust Donald Forrester Trust Ericson Trust Four Winds Trust G D Herbert Charitable Trust Galanthus Trust Glasgow Tree Lovers Society Golden Bottle Trust Gunter Charitable Trust Hadrian Trust Henry C Hoare Charitable Trust Hon M L Astors Charitable Trust Ian and Elizabeth Church Charitable Trust Ingram Trust J & J R Wilson Trust John Horseman Trust John Jarrold Trust Ltd Johnson Wax Limited Charitable Trust Josephine Ewbank Trust JVAN Trust Langdale Trust Leche Trust Leggett Trust Linda and Gordon Bonnyman Charitable Trust Lord Faringdon Charitable Trust

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

Mark Leonard Trust Martin Connell Charitable Trust Mary Lady Fuller Charitable Trust Michael Marks Charitable Trust Michael Shanly Charitable Trust Mr T H N Allen Charitable Trust Norman Family Charitable Trust Ormsby Charitable Trust Pamela Matthews Charitable Trust Paul Bassham Charitable Trust Pauline Meredith Charitable Trust Peacock Charitable Trust Peter Courtauld Charitable Trust Ptarmigan Trust Revere Charitable Trust Richard Radcliffe Charitable Trust Ronald Miller Foundation Rothschild Foundation Rufford Foundation Scouloudi Foundation ShareGift Shears Foundation Sir James Knott Trust South Square Trust Spear Charitable Trust Stephen Clark 1965 Charitable Trust Stuart & Margaret Miller Charitable Trust Sunrise (Sidmouth) Trust Sylvia Aitken Charitable Trust Tanner Trust Thames Wharf Charity Tory Family Foundation United Spiritualists

CORPORATE SUPPORTERS ALD Automotive Barclaycard Calor Gas Ltd Carrylift CFH Total Document Management Limited Classic Cottages Delta-Simons Dorothy Perkins Dorset Cereals DoubleTree by Hilton Environmental Business Products Ltd Eurocamp Golden Charter Hammonds Furniture Ltd Honda UK Hoval H&M ibuyeco IKEA UK Ltd Indigo Furniture Ltd iSpy Books Jo Malone Kernow Coatings Lakeland Marks & Spencer plc Mars Petcare Medici Miele NBC International Network Rail ONI Plc Pearson Plc Penguin Books Ltd Premier Paper Group Ronseal Ltd RWE npower Sainsburys Shanly Homes ShP Ltd Simons Group

SRK Consulting Tesco Freetime Ltd The Camping and Caravanning Club The Co-operative Bank plc The Disney Store Limited TJX Europe Total Refrigeration Waitrose WHSmith Retail Ltd The Wren Press Yellow Pages GRANTS 5,000 and over Big Lottery Fund Countryside Council for Wales Defra Department of Agriculture and Rural Development European Structural Funds Fife Environment Trust Forestry Commission England Forestry Commission Scotland Forestry Commission Wales Forest Service Northern Ireland Heritage Lottery Fund High Weald AONB Kent Downs AONB Natural England Northern Ireland Environment Agency Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust Rural Payments Agency Scottish Government Scottish Natural Heritage The Tubney Charitable Trust Welsh Assembly Government Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust

LANDFILL COMMUNITIES FUND 5,000 and over Biffaward County Durham Environmental Trust Cory Environmental Trust Cumbria Waste Management Environment Trust GrantScape Lancashire Environmental Fund SITA Trust Veolia Environmental Trust WREN Yorventure LOCAL AUTHORITIES 5,000 and over Carmarthenshire County Council Carrickfergus Borough Council East Sussex County Council Greater London Authority Herefordshire Council Kings Lynn and West Norfolk District Council South Hams District Council LEGACIES 5,000 and over Mr D J Abbott Miss E A W Anderson Mrs E Ashbee Mrs E L Ashmole Miss H M Atkinson Mrs F M Austin Mr I V Balfour Paul Mrs M Barnes Mr R Barnett Mr J H Bescoby Miss D Beveridge Mrs J J Boon Mrs G C Brammer Mr S R Breading Mrs E Brunton

Miss J E E Buck Mrs A R E Burfoot Mrs P L Cain Mr N A Callow Miss P M Chamberlen Miss M Chandler Mrs D Chappelow Miss J D Clayton Miss C P L Cooke Miss D R A Cooper Mr J M S Cowan Mrs J Crane Mr J Crewe Mrs D I Crisfield Miss J E Croft Ms F E Crowsley Mr M J Dare Miss J Davidson Mrs S Desmond Mr P S E M Dickens Ms B Dirkin Mrs H M Dodworth Mr J A Driscoll Mrs M H Drummond Ms J M Drury Miss P E Dubois Mr D A Eason Mr F Edwards Mr A K M Elliott Miss H J Ellis Miss P M Ellston Ms M E Field Ms M A Fisher Mrs W M Fox Miss P M French Mrs D E Fulcher Mr P Gilbert Ms J M A Gooch Mr K A Gourlay Ms P A Griffith Mr A J Grimes Miss K G M Haddock Miss E G Hanmer Mr G W Hatfield Miss J M Haywood Professor R Hill Miss D L Hobbs Miss B I Hockmuth

Mrs M A Holden Mr G C Hollands Mrs P K Hollands Mrs E M Houlston Mrs E M Howard Mrs V Innes Miss B A Jones Mr L E Jones Ms S N Jones Mrs J G Kenner Miss B M Kirby Mrs N M Kirienko Miss B C Langley Miss M Large Mr D T W Leatham Mr M Lowe Mr A T Ludlow Mrs M M F M Lynn Miss H R Mackaness Ms R M Martin Mrs H J Mathers Mrs L P Milner Miss P J Moeller Miss M E Moody Miss M U Morris Miss P A Myers Mrs A M Nankivell Professor K I B S Needham Mr P R Newman Miss A C Nowill Mr D J Odd Mrs M W Page Mr J B G Parker Ms J M R Parsons Mr R W Partridge Mr P G Pearce Miss D Penny Mrs M A Perrin Mrs J Piskor Mr R F Potter Mrs D E Pozniak Dr A B Rawson Miss G R Rees Thomas Mr A E S A Reynolds Miss W L Roberts Mr D F Roberts Mrs E R Roberts Ms J A Roberts

Mrs J Ross-Collins Mr R C Scott Mrs M Scott Mrs M A Seeley Miss E M Sharpe Ms J Shewring Miss D J Shorey Miss E E Smith Mr D L Smith Mr F W Smith Miss J C Smyth Mr W Spoors Ms V N Stacey Miss J V Stanley Mrs P M Stevens Mrs B M B Stevenson Miss M D Stone Miss M I Stone Miss B B Strickland Mr A Stringer Mrs B O Stroud Ms D J Sutton Ms R H Syfret Mrs E M Thompson Miss N D Tucker Mrs B N Turner Mrs D M Turner Mr D J Viveash Mr H E Waters Mrs I E Waters Mr J M Webber Mr K E Webster Ms R C Webster Mrs H West Mrs G M Wilkes Dr A J Williams Mrs J M Windwood Ms G Wittering Mr E F Woodward Mrs J Wrigley Miss E C G Wynne Mrs E E Youell Mr J A Young

Legacies

2011 in England
Its been an exciting year for the Woodland Trust in England and were 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 Trusts 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. Were also delighted to have won a RE:LEAF Award for Joydens Wood in Kent, which came first in the trees and learning category for projects that engage and involve children. As part of site improvements weve 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. Robsons 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.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2011

We 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.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2011

Membership
Our 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.

Public donations & appeals

We 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 Woods project, which will raised flagship Diamond Wood site In 2011 we launched our Jubilee Jubilee by enabling six 450,000 from members and supporters, Queen Elizabeths Diamond able to meaning we should soon be celebrate across the UK. purchase the site. million trees to be planted

Our flagship Diamond Wood

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

woodlandtrust.org.uk/review
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Our flagship Diamond Wood

In 2011 we launched our Jubilee Woods project, which will celebrate Queen Elizabeths Diamond Jubilee by enabling six million trees to be planted across the UK. We couldnt have done it without you. Find out what we achieved together last year inside this all-new Annual Review.

you. Find out what we Our final appeal launched in December We couldnt have done it without 2011 and helped raise funds for woodland inside this all-new Annual Review. achieved together last year management, helping us improve biodiversity
and protect our woods nationwide.

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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 Coopers 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 Trusts head office in Grantham. The annual accounts have been submitted to the Charity Commission, the Office of the Scottish Charity regulator, and Companies House.