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Find out how creating woodland can benefit your business, and how you can diversify your income, offset emissions, and benefit your land, crops, and livestock.

A calendar of online and face-to-face Forestry Commission events, and details of shows and exhibitions we are attending.

Find out how tree planting and woodland creation can benefit your land. Learn about the financial support, grants and expert advice available.

This guidance sets out the UK governments' approach to sustainable forestry, including standards and requirements, regulations and monitoring, and reporting.

A calendar of online and face-to-face Forestry Commission events, and details of shows and exhibitions we are attending.

You must read and agree to the terms and conditions set out in this document to apply for the tree health pilot scheme: tree health advice package

Apply for the tree health advice package.

Complete the relevant expression of interest (EOI) form if you want to take part in the Forestry Commission’s tree health pilot scheme.

You must read and agree to the terms and conditions set out in this document to apply for the tree health pilot scheme.

Spruce tree planting prohibited in parts of East Anglia and South East England

Find out how to apply for an authorisation to fell, stack, transport or process spruce trees within the Ips typographus demarcated area.

Information about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, including how to report sightings.

Use this guidance and forms to apply for funding to create woodland under the England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO).

The eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is a serious pest of spruce. There are exemptions and restrictions for planting spruce in the demarcated area.

Find out what's involved in creating a plan, giving you a structured way to organise the management of woodland.

A calendar of online and face-to-face Forestry Commission events, and details of shows and exhibitions we are attending.

This guidance sets out the UK governments' approach to sustainable forestry, including standards and requirements, regulations and monitoring, and reporting.

View the monthly list of Forestry Commission spending (above £500) on the GPC – for transactions made in 2024.

Read the case studies of various career paths within the Forestry Commission.

A collection of Forestry Commission blogs on careers in forestry.

As part of the government’s commitment to improve transparency, the Forestry Commission publishes all its expenditure invoices over £25,000.

Sign up to the plant health newsletter to receive up-to-date forestry trade news.

Policy on increasing open habitats so we have more diverse landscapes, making species better able to accommodate flexibly to a shifting climate.

A compendium of statistics about woodland, forestry and primary wood processing.

A summary of statistics about woodland, forestry and primary wood processing.

Complete the relevant expression of interest (EOI) form if you want to take part in the Forestry Commission’s tree health pilot scheme.

Read the case studies of various career paths within the Forestry Commission.

Read the agenda, meeting papers and minutes of the Executive Board meeting on 17 April 2024.