National Tree Week is the Tree Council's festival to mark the start of the tree planting season, and a nationwide celebration of trees and woods.

Christian Aid Week (this year 13-19 May), Britain’s longest running door-to-door fundraising week, turns 50. To mark its golden jubilee it is going green by encouraging people of all ages to plant trees in support of its overseas work on climate change projects.

Giving the gift of trees helps communities to help themselves. Trees provide food and shelter. They are also a source of fruit and nuts, leaves and pods for fodder, bark for medicines and resins for chemicals. Click here to vist the Oxfam Unwrapped Gift Collection