How to Reduce Your Food Miles & Help the Planet
If you’re a tree planter, we love and applaud you for helping to remove CO2 and other pollutants from the atmosphere. There are lots of other ways you can prevent putting quite so much CO2 in the atmosphere in the first place. Taking a look at what you eat is a great place to start. A […]
A Tremendous 21 Months – Thanks To You!
A Whopping Great #GivingTuesday You folks are truly amazing, so many of you stepped up to the plate on #GivingTuesday and together we raised a stupendous £7,385. This will get almost 3,000 trees planted which will absorb 738½ tonnes of CO2 in a handful of years, and build more than 70% of a new classroom, and that’s before doubling by PayPal! Asante […]
Water: one of the challenges for women in rural Kenya
Our CEO Tracey West, talks to the Boré Green Umbrella Co-operative’s Chairman, Theophrastus Kithunga, about some of the practicalities of acquiring water when you live in the African bush. Experience this emotional snapshot, as Tracey attempts to do what thousands of Kenyan women do every day, as they collect water and transport it back to […]
The Wood Wide Web – no, seriously!
Every now and again, we spot articles and videos on the Internet that do a great job of helping people understand how completely amazing trees are. Today, was one of those days! When you have a moment, hop onto this link to view a fabulous short video on the BBC News website. You’re going to […]
A Gift that Leaves a Legacy: what that actually means
We often say that when you donate funds to our charity, you are helping to create a legacy. It isn’t spin and it is rather a bold statement. If we try to emphasise the point in a short Facebook or Twitter post, there simply aren’t enough characters to adequately explain what we mean, so here […]
Our 100% Organic Cotton Range: the ethical facts
Our Sapling Collection of 100% super-soft organic cotton clothing, has a very special place in our heart for so many reasons. Firstly, for every single garment purchased, we will plant a tree in our Word Forest in Kenya. Secondly, you can put them on the minute you rip them out of their packaging because they’re […]
Launching Our Exclusive Range of Organic Clothes: planting a tree for every purchase!
We are absolutely delighted to launch the first of our gorgeous summer range of 100% organic cotton clothes. Take a peek at first two items, a super-cute babygrow and a mens/unisex T-shirt, both with eye-catching designs that show our passion for the planet and when they’re worn, they’ll express your love for it too. It’ll be […]
The Word Forest Organisation is a Charity!
Our CEO and Board of Trustees are quite simply bursting with joy – we have just been granted official charitable status! Our application went into the Charity Commission on the 8th December 2016 and following much correspondence between them and us as we thrashed out the all important wording, here we finally are. Our mission to […]
Spilling the Beans on #DroughtKe
The catastrophic drought currently holding Kenya in a terrifying grip, has pushed the country into a critical state. Countless crops have failed, coffee yields have decreased, the land is drying up and outlying communities who are entirely dependent upon their fields producing good harvests to keep themselves fed, are turning to one of the most self-destructive methods […]
