What we do
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Provide a forum for cross-sector working
TDAG meetings/seminars take place on most months on Zoom. This enables people to join from across the UK and overseas. Produce best practice guides TDAG uses its membership’s broad expertise and experience to develop guides offering evidence-based information, practical advice and case studies to inform decision-making on urban trees. Respond to consultations On policy documents as well as best practice standards and guidance that can have an impact on the urban forest. All members are invited to contribute, allowing a holistic and balanced response. We also liaise with other organisations to agree key points. All TDAG consultation responses can be found under Other downloads. Facilitate knowledge and research dissemination TDAG helps identify and promote available reports and research that can inform better decision making on urban trees. It also seeks to identify knowledge gaps and how they can be addressed. For more details visit our Research page. Seminars and workshops These are run online without charge. We sometimes run in-person workshops and there may be a charge for these to cover costs. We can also contribute to workshops or seminars organised by others. If you would like more information please contact [email protected] TDAG’s Ten Point Action Plan Drafted in 2010, this document captures how TDAG defined its top priorities for the years ahead. Available here. |
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Publication funding
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We raise funds through sponsorship on a project-by-project basis mainly for our online publications and information which can be accessed for free, enabling TDAG to assimilate ideas and knowledge independently of organisational hierarchy, profit or commercial interests.
Sponsorship is acknowledged in each publication. If you would like to sponsor TDAG online publications please contact [email protected] |
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Core supporters
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This is for more general tasks including:
Core funders are acknowledged on the TDAG website. If you would like to support TDAG as a core funder please contact [email protected] |
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Individual funding
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Individuals are invited to support TDAG on a one-off or regular basis via InvestMyCommunity here.
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Our governance
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Established in 2007 as a not-for-profit and apolitical collaborative forum, TDAG incorporated as a charitable trust in 2013. Our work is overseen by a Board of Trustees. For full details see the TDAG Trust’s Memorandum of Association.
Our Trustees Martin Kelly is a qualified Landscape Architect and Urban Designer and Fellow of the Landscape Institute, Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Jeremy Barrell is the Managing Director of Barrell Tree Consultancy providing tree management advice to the planning and legal sectors. Tony Hothersall was the founding Company Secretary of the Community Forest Trust and for 27 years he was the Director of Red Rose Forest and then oversaw its transformation to Manchester City of Trees. Keith Sacre, Director at Barcham Trees and Treeconomics. Keith led the development of the new British Standard BS 8545:2014 Trees: from nursery to independence in the landscape. Sue Illman, Managing Director at Illman-Young, Past President of the Landscape Institute, CIC Champion for Flood Mitigation and Resilience and co-author of the CIRIA Guidance on Construction and SuDS. Our Patron Tony Kirkham, MBE, has had a distinguished 43 year career as Head of the Arboretum, Gardens and Horticultural Services at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, responsible for the management and curation of over 14,000 trees. He was awarded the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour in 2019 and an MBE in 2019 for services to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Arboriculture and made an Honorary Lifetime fellow of the Arboricultural Association in 2015 and received the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. |
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Join TDAG
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Belonging to TDAG is free. Being on our contacts list enables you to keep up-to-date with our activities and events. If you would like to be part of TDAG and promote our aims please contact [email protected]
While every effort is made to ensure that the information we provide is obtained from reliable sources, the TDAG Trust is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of this information. TDAG guidance cannot replace professional advice. |