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Helping us deliver nature-based solutions to climate change across the UK.

Aviva are helping us to improve watercourses and sequester carbon at Snaizeholme in the Yorkshire Dales.

Credit: Jill Jennings / WTML

We’re proud to be working with Aviva to deliver nature-based solutions to climate change across the UK.

Aviva is donating £10m over five years to support our Woodland Carbon scheme - enabling approximately 330,000 tonnes of carbon to be stored over 100 years. This will contribute to the mitigation of residual emissions associated with Aviva's carbon footprint, and forms part of Aviva’s roadmap to Net Zero by 2040.

Both Aviva and the Woodland Trust are focused on a better future for our planet, people and biodiversity. Climate change and biodiversity loss are interdependent issues and crucial to the long-term sustainability of our planet. That is why we are delighted to partner with the Woodland Trust on this project, helping make the UK the most climate-ready economy.

Claudine Blamey
Aviva Group Sustainability Director

Credit: Joel Goodman / WTML

Putting nature to work

Carbon will be sequestered in new woodland created at Snaizeholme in the Yorkshire Dales. This project will also improve ecological connectivity, support the local population of red squirrels and improve water quality across the landscape’s watercourses, slowing the flow of water in periods of flooding.

Restoration work at Smithills, on the edge of Bolton, will rewet the peat bogs that lie across the highest points of the estate. This will sequester further carbon, registered under the Peatland Carbon Code, but also crucially help prevent the spread of wildfires - an increasing risk as a result of climate change. We still remember the devastating impact on wildlife after the serious fire across Smithills in 2018 (above).

Credit: Matthew Roberts / WTML

Community spirit

Aviva colleagues will be mucking in to help create new woodland for wildlife and people to enjoy. And what better location than our new acquisition in Norfolk: Green Farm. This 119-hectare site (above) will be transformed into a mosaic of broadleaved woodland, wood pasture, grassland and hedgerows in the heart of the county where Aviva began in the 1700s.

This is not the start of our journey with Aviva. In 2019, the Aviva Foundation generously donated £90,000 to our natural flood management work in Cumbria. The funding helped support 10 landowners to create and restore 5.5km of hedgerows and plant over 1,000 trees in strategic locations upstream.

Let's talk

Partner with us and your business can bring the benefits of trees to people, wildlife and the planet.

Call us on 0330 333 5306 or email partners@woodlandtrust.org.uk to found out how we can work together.