About Avon Needs Trees
Avon Needs Trees (ANT) is a registered charity creating new, permanent woodland throughout the Bristol-Avon catchment to fight the climate and ecological emergencies.
We fundraise to buy land to create woodlands that will remain for generations, locking up carbon, boosting local biodiversity, and providing natural flood management as well as publicly accessible green space where appropriate.
ANT was founded in 2019 by environmentalist Nikki Jones and a small band of volunteers. They were concerned by how deforested our area had become and that no charity existed to buy land in our catchment to guarantee the permanence of new woodlands.
Since our formation in 2019, we have had two incredibly successful projects in Wiltshire, purchasing two sites of 47 acres, planting and caring for 22,000 native trees with the help of hundreds of volunteers from local and surrounding communities.
In 2023 we started planting Great Avon Wood; a ground-breaking partnership with the Forest of Avon Trust. With over 100 acres of land and 40,000 trees to plant and care for, it was our most ambitious project to date. We have also planted Ed Woods, our first Land Partnership venture, which means we are working with the site landowners to create permanent woodland.
We have just completed the purchase of 420 acre Wick Farm to create Lower Chew Forest, the biggest new woodland in the South West in a generation. We are also leading a Landscape Recovery Project across a wide area of the Chew Valley.
Our Values
Ambitious: Our people are nimble and take opportunities, take urgent action to tackle the climate and nature emergencies, are bold in our ambition and scale
Reasoned: We are thoughtful, ethical and reasoned in how we deliver our ambitions
Positive: We are optimistic about the future and our ability to shape it, meeting our mission and challenges with positivity
Working With Us
- Flexible working with an employer with a proven record of sensitivity to range of personal circumstances and needs
- Hybrid working, based on a 35-hour (full time) working week
- 26 days leave per annum, plus bank holidays (all pro rata for part-time staff)
- Wellbeing and resilience focussed employer
- Paid leave for emergencies
- 24/7 free, impartial and confidential support service
- 24/7 free helpline with health professionals
- Pension scheme, with a 3% employer contribution
- Real Living Wage employer, as a minimum
