HOW IT WORKS
We help businesses hit their sustainability and social value goals by curating a range of high quality, local impact urban greening sponsorship opportunities, in partnership with Local Authorities.
A SIMPLE, 3-STEP APPROACH
1. BROWSE
Select local trees or projects according to where you'd like to direct your local impact. Add them to your cart to see the combined impact you will be delivering across the next calendar year.
2. SPONSOR
Once you have reached your desired combined impact for the next calendar year, simply go through the checkout process to confirm your financial sponsorship. You can attribute a name to the trees you have chosen.
3. REPORT
Once your financial contribution is confirmed, you can immediately claim the impact you have helped to deliver for one calendar year, and download your certificate from your account area.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES PARTNERSHIP
Our team works in close partnership with landowners and Local Authorities, to quantify the impact and social value of their existing tree estates management activities. We then calculate an average cost, associated social impact, and Social Value ROI (“SROI”) per tree.
When sponsoring a tree for one year, you will be able to claim the social impact associated to that tree immediately.
You will also be able to attrivute a name to your tree for the duration of the sponsorship.
Carbon Heroes collects your payment on behalf of the Local Authority, manages the open registry and impact reporting, and delivers impact certificates on behalf of the landowners and Local Authorities.
FORWARD FUNDING
MODEL
When your sponsor a tree, the cost and associated impact are calculated according to the activities completed by the Local Authority in the past year. This value is refreshed every year, and agreed with the teams of each Local Authority, in accordance with their tree estates datasets, greening strategies and priorities.
Your financial contribution will therefore cover the future finance for your chosen trees for the next year. It will essentially augment the Local Authority's greening budget for the year ahead.
At any point, your account area will provide a status of your sponsorship, and confirmation that your chosen trees have effectively been taken care of.
FUNDING LARGER
PROJECTS
Beyond individual tree sponsorship, we also offer a range of larger projects such as urban forests, in partnership with Earthwatch.
Those projects typically require larger, bespoke funding amounts, and involve hundreds of hours of volunteering, or maintenance commitments for 1-2 years after planting. Browse the list in our Projects section, or contact us to find out more.
VOLUNTEERING
OPPORTUNITIES
Each tree or project sponsorship opportunity comes with optional volunteering time, for businesses wanting to include volunteering as part of their social value strategy.
Volunteering is entirely optional - you can still sponsor a tree without committing any volunteering time.
THE CARBON HEROES PROMISE
Trustworthy ✅
Our searchable map enables you to deliver highly targeted local impact, where it matters most for you, by Local Authority, down to the individual tree level. We handle all impact calculations in accordance to established standards, tools and methodologies that are trusted by the urban forestry community – and fund our additional research whenever needed.
Geotargeted 📍
Flexible 📈
We want to make local impact highly accessible for any business or individual. Your financial support can start from one individual tree, to hundreds of trees or larger urban forests projects, anywhere in the UK.