Building resilient communities

Building Resilient Communities focuses on repurposing spaces and places that help people and nature thrive. Together with our two charity partners, The Tree Council and Habitat for Humanity, we focus on repurposing and retrofitting spaces to provide essential needs for communities to have secure and sustainable futures. This includes greening urban areas and planting trees to support biodiverse habitats in our local communities.

Reflecting on Our Impact

In partnership with The Tree Council, we’ve spent the last four years closing the nature gap, bringing nature into over 1,030 school communities across the UK.

Through the Young Tree Champions programme, more than 380,000 students and teachers have taken part in tree planting, nature workshops, and environmental education.

Over 56,000 trees have been planted in schools, and curriculum-linked resources have been made freely available to inspire a lifelong connection with the natural world.

Visit the Young Tree Champions website

Ideas into Action: Growing Together

Now, we’re building on this foundation with a transformative new phase of our partnership focused on restoring biodiversity and empowering communities through locally grown trees.

There is a national goal to increase tree cover from 13% to 16.5% in England by 2050, which equates to around 1 billion trees; Scotland also aims to increase its woodland cover from 18% to 21% by 2032.

This programme aims to support community-based tree nurseries across the UK to supply resilient and locally adapted trees nurtured by local people through hands-on environmental action.

Empty Spaces to Homes

Across Europe, around 1.3 million people face homelessness, driven by housing shortages and social barriers. Over the past five years, we’ve partnered with Habitat for Humanity to explore how empty buildings can be converted into homes for vulnerable people, identifying over 7,000 commercial properties owned by local authorities in England, Scotland, and Wales that could be repurposed to meet housing needs.

In 2021, we also launched the Empty Spaces Coalition, bringing together housing sector stakeholders to share expertise and develop solutions. The coalition created a practical toolkit to guide local governments and communities in converting unused spaces into homes.

Ideas into action

We’ve turned the gaps identified by our research into reality with demonstrator projects in cities like London and Warsaw. These projects show how repurposed spaces can meet both social and environmental needs. Over five years, we’ve delivered 108 repurposed spaces, creating homes in Poland, Germany, Ireland, and the UK.

In the next stage of our partnership we are applying lessons learned to scale our impact. Together, we are exploring the environmental benefits of repurposing buildings to support more resilient and sustainable communities. We’re researching environmental impacts of repurposing emptying homes and identifying a sustainable funding model to support long-term housing outcomes.

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