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So I’m Katrina Kelly and I'm a
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forester and one of the co-founders of Co-forest.
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so Co-forest is a community tree planting project,
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but specifically around the business community.
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So we bring company owners together
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and they fund parts of the forest,
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and then we buy
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the land,
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plant the forest,
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and try to make sure it is as biodiverse
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and as native as possible.
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So my husband runs a company called Storm
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Storm’s a tech company.
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They build websites, they handle data,
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they've got a team based in Bath
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and they've been there for about 13 years now.
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And for their 10th anniversary,
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they wanted to do something
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that would leave an impact and a legacy.
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So we talked about lots of options
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and one of those was to plant trees.
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When we started talking to Storm’s
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clients, they all wanted to join in.
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All of the volunteers who come get taught about
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how we’re constructing the woodland
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and why we're using different species,
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what that does in terms
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of pollinators and biodiversity more generally,
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and what that does in terms of the resilience
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of the woodland for future pests and diseases as well.
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I think the biggest impact
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this project's had for
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the companies
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involved is around their understanding of the crisis
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we have in this country around biodiversity
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and the role that they can play in addressing that.
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So organisations
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nearly always approach us talking about carbon
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when they want to get involved in Co-forest.
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We try to talk to them
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about other ways of cutting their carbon
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rather than offset it,
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and we talk to them a lot about the need
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for more biodiversity in Britain
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and access
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to green space for people,
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and that's what Co-forest
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helps them give to the community.
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So they start talking about carbon
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and they usually leave talking
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about what they're doing for biodiversity
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and for people in the local area.
