The Festival Wood

2012-04-30
Add to this grove

The Festival Wood is wild forest regeneration initiative from A Greener Festival. The Festival Woods is an opportunity for the live industry, artists and fans to give something back to the great outdoors that we love to enjoy. A festival legacy that will grow and grow. Furthermore, based on calculations from the Woodland Trust, 1tonne of carbon could be sequestered for every 4 trees planted – so let’s get planting!

A Greener Festival chose to team with Trees for Life to create the Festival Wood, due to their proven and outstanding commitment to restoring, protecting and nurturing the wild forests in the Scottish Highlands.

“Trees for Life’s vision is to restore a wild forest, which is there for its own sake, as a home for wildlife and to fulfill the ecological functions necessary for the wellbeing of the land itself.”

Trees are planted in natural distribution patterns at sites that offer maximum benefits for biodiversity. Trees for Life’s focus is on native species grown from locally collected seed, including Scots pine, willow, rowan, birch, hazel, alder, holly, aspen and bird cherry. The Festival Woods are beginning in Dundreggan, an area of 10,000 acres of wild land near Loch Ness.

We invite festivals, festival-goers, artists, suppliers and the whole festival community to get involved and donate trees, at £6 each, to this lasting positive restoration. We hope to one day see the Festival Woods flourish to become a diverse Festival Forest, rich with biodiversity and protected wilderness.

The first 300 trees are donated by our friends and coach travelers with Big Green Coach, the team at A Greener Festival and a wonderful 100 tree donation in loving memory of Aidan ‘Tig’ Challis.

Visit and Volunteer

Dundreggan has a visitor area so if you wish to see the Festival Wood you can! There is also opportunity to volunteer to go and plant trees with Trees for Life’s Conservation Holidays. There are also educational walks and opportunities to observe the areas wildlife.

If you are a festival and want to get involved with the Festival Woods project contact agreenerfestival@aol.com

Trees for Life’s project area for forest restoration

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Dundreggan tree planting and conservation project sites

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The following festivals and suppliers have contributed to Festival Wood:

Al Green Productions, Association of Festival Organisers, Barley Arts – Italy, Belladrum (Tartan Heart 2012) Festival, Bestival, The Cambridge Folk Festival, Charge and Store, Deer Shed Festival, Electric Hotel, End of the Road Festival, Et Voila Events (January 2013), Et Voila Events (June 2013), festivalmag.com, Glastonbury Festival, HADRA Trance Festival, ID&C Ltd (2013), Kendal Calling, Live Experience, Stack Cup, Peppermint Bars, Rockstar Services

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Donations

45 trees
This donation is made to celebrate all of the certified events, festivals and arenas under the AGF Framework in 2023
Donated by A Greener Future
29/03/2024
£3210
2022 festival donations
Donated by End of the Road Festival
23/05/2023
42 trees
Congratulations to all of our AGF certified festivals, events and arenas in 2022. A tree has been donated to this rewilding haven in your honour :)
Donated by A Greener Future
19/05/2023
53 trees
We are delighted to support Festival Wood and are donating to give back to the natural world in recognition of the carbon emissions that we directly produced operating the Folk Festival
Donated by Cambridge Folk Festival
17/01/2023
30 trees
Happy to support Festival woods and We are trying to balance our carbon footprint for our 2022 season.
Donated by Lalita's
02/12/2022
18 trees
Thank you to the audience of GEI 14 for their kind donations.
Donated by Green Events & Innovations (GEI 14)
16/05/2022
£6
Topping up the clean air... ? On Valentine's Day!
Donated by Rockstar Services
14/02/2022
24 trees
Topping up the clean air... ? On Valentine's Day!
Donated by Rockstar Services
14/02/2022
£4
The first and not the last... x
Donated by La Familia Appleton
14/02/2022
1 tree
The first and not the last... x
Donated by La Familia Appleton
14/02/2022
£11060
Donated by End of the Road Festival
04/02/2022
20 trees
We are trying to balance our carbon footprint for our 2021 season.
Donated by Lalita's
20/12/2021
20 trees
Topping up this beautiful grove... thank you.
Donated by Rockstar Services
13/09/2021
10 trees
Thank you for all you do with this beautiful woodland, in addition to my GEI/ILMC donations over this past year and physical trees planted in Sussex, I'd like to contribute to the wood to help cover my living, breathing costs. Looking forward to watching this beautiful wood grow over the years.
Donated by Rockstar Services
22/03/2021
£50
Thank you for all that you are doing
Donated by Topping up the beautiful Festival Wood...
24/09/2020
25 trees
Thank you for all that you are doing
Donated by Topping up the beautiful Festival Wood...
24/09/2020
£7795
2019 Festival donation
Donated by End of the Road Festival
25/11/2019
£8865
2018 festival donation
Donated by End of the Road Festival
25/11/2019
41 trees
We are delighted to once again support Festival Wood and are donating to give back to the natural world in recognition of the carbon emissions that we directly produced operating the Folk Festival.
Donated by Cambridge Folk Festival
18/11/2019
10 trees
Helping to balance some of my recent travel, eating, clothing and breathing! I hope to come do more planting this year :)
Donated by Claire O'Neill
02/10/2019
30 trees
Topping up!
Donated by Rockstar Services
30/09/2019
20 trees
Topping up!
Donated by Rockstar Services
30/09/2019
3 trees
31/08/2019
24 trees
I'm lucky enough to work in the music industry,
but it's a business where sometimes air travel is unavoidable.
Therefore I'm delighted to participate in this great initiative by AGF & Trees For Life.
Donated by Tristan Hunt
23/04/2019
4 trees
To offset my return flight to Spain
Donated by Alice Favre
01/03/2019
40 trees
Cambridge Folk Festival
Donated by Cambridge Folk Festival
25/09/2018
2 trees
Donated by Delyth Morgan
01/08/2018
52 trees
15 trees from our conference delegates at GEI10 and 37 trees from our A Greener Festival Awards
19/04/2018
53 trees
We are delighted to support Festival Wood and are donating to give back to the natural world in recognition of the carbon emissions that we directly produced operating the Folk Festival
Donated by Cambridge Folk Festival
19/09/2017
9 trees
Donated by Aymeric
14/02/2017
55 trees
Cambridge Folk Festival
Donated by Cambridge Folk Festival
22/11/2016
25 trees
Donated by Festival Wood
07/10/2016
200 trees
Donated by the visitors to ILMC 28
Donated by International Live Music Conference - ILMC28
26/08/2016
50 trees
For out climate neutral 2015 business
Donated by Stichting Stimular
22/04/2016
Donated by Donna O'Neill
16/10/2015
20 trees
Good luck with the project! Music Industry Yorkshire (Higher Rhythm)
Donated by Steven Mundin
22/07/2015
Good luck with the project; more power to you! Music Industry Yorkshire (Higher Rhythm) .
Donated by Steven Mundin
21/07/2015
More power to you! Music Industry Yorkshire (Higher Rhythm)
Donated by Steve Mundin
20/07/2015
Such a huge return for such a small donation. More power to you!
Donated by Steve Mundin
20/07/2015
26/05/2015
50 trees
Donated by Stimular Foundation
20/05/2015
13/05/2015
1 tree
I love you Treeees!
Donated by Lolo Vato
03/03/2015
1 tree
Keep up the good work! Really good new website...
Donated by Lily-Rose King
05/02/2015
1823 trees
Donated by The Festival Wood
30/04/2012