About Us
Fellowship of the Trees is a collaborative of committed people who have cocreated a vision from our hearts into care for the planet.
We are a fast growing grassroots movement, we have heard the call of the Earth and we are responding with love-in-action.
This call to take action to align with the trees and nature, to help climate and community is a powerful vision we share – a vision of fellowship with trees and all of nature.
We are a manifestation from weaving together indigenous wisdom, stewardship, environmental and sacred activism along with models of regenerative culture. We emulate nature’s patterns, structures and teachings to inspire as well as facilitate solutions locally and globally.
Our mission is to connect communities by combining purposeful intention with action to re-wild, regenerate, and restore land and culture, ensuring a thriving Earth for future generations.
We have created community events involving music, art, poetry, workshops, planting and fundraising. We have collaborated with other community projects in partnerships, bringing many people together in conscious sacred connection to the Earth and each other. We have a growing social media following, where we have created an online space for the sharing of resources and ideas.
Our values.
Future generations: we recognise action is required now to leave future generations a world which is healthy, nourished as well as regenerated and abundant.
Peaceful and sacred activism: we embrace a fusion of spiritual alongside indigenous knowledge, cultural as well as ancestral traditions, courage, love, compassion and gratitude, with conscious radical action in the world.
Compassionate and conscious: being of service to the Earth bridging systems of ecology, education and conservation/regeneration to ensure an interdependence of unity through love and integrity.
Co-creative: collaborative in nature offering a way of council for all to play their part, however big or small; providing space for individual gifts and contributions to be honoured.
Connectivity: connecting communities to wholeness and wilderness to restore a healthy relationship between people and the planet.
Diversity: appreciating that it takes people with different identities, ideas, strengths, interests, faiths and cultural backgrounds to make our fellowship whole, we encourage and respect differences of opinion and lifestyle to enrich the movement.
Inner Development: we recognise both inner and outer landscapes are our responsibility. Supportive, sacred spaces are offered within the fellowship to invite people to participate in self-care, personal development, and reflective practice.
Conscious and intersectional mobilisation: we inspire passion, enthusiasm, commitment and action for a healthier planet. We organise to reflect that those most affected by the ecological and climate crises should be at the forefront of action for environmental and social justice
Integrity: we are consistently open, honest, ethical and aligned with our hearts placing our natural world, including humanity, first.
Transparency: we are open in communication, responsibility, accountability.
Respect: ensuring that internal and external communications are sensitive, respectful, and considerate.
Our approach.
Unite
Create
Regenerate
Our way is to embrace spiritual and practical aspects of restoring, regenerating as well as protecting the natural world and ourselves, with the knowing that we are intrinsically connected. We aim to inspire as well as empower people to come together and reconnect with nature and to take responsibility on a conscious level to move into a new paradigm of interbeing.
We take inspiration from characteristics exemplified by forests: communication, networking, collaboration, mutual support, strength in togetherness, and interdependence.
Fellowship of the Trees is part of the movement that invites a lifestyle culture in which humanity can live in harmonious, symbiotic interrelationship with themselves, each other and this Earth that we call home. We believe that by creating space for individuals to be of service to the natural world, we can promote their well-being whilst also creating loving, inclusive communities of activists.
We recognise that indigenous communities hold the wisdom that is caring for much of the Earth’s biodiversity. And we understand that the loss of nature impacts most on people in the global South and at the same time that marginalised and minority communities in the UK suffer disproportionately from polluted and unhealthy environments. Environmental and social justice are woven into the fabric of our work as part of the transformation to a better world for present and future generations.
Photos from previous projects.
The wisdom of the trees.
Dreams were important to ancient societies and in many world cultures yet this has been replaced with the society of the spectacle in modern culture. Fellowship of the Trees believes it is time we reclaim the importance of dreams by bringing them into reality. There is a collective dream in today’s world, an urgent calling to which we are responding. We are dreaming into reality a network bridging the wisdom of indigenous and ancient dreaming, within modern day landscapes.
Trees and integrity are synonymous concepts: The integrity of tree’s structures, their dynamics and individual characters, as well as their family systems and communities are exemplary. It is something that the ancients respected and science is only beginning to glimpse and understand.
Trees have survived the millennia and supported the entire globe through their constant and intrinsically ever evolving fellowship. This is how they have stood the test of time, through their collaborative system of interdependence and communication. We choose now to learn from them and model a movement of tree-based philosophy and activism based upon this principle.
It is through the innate structure of trees and their cohesion that our global ecosystem is made possible. We hold it as self-evident that if we take the principles demonstrated by trees as guidance we will naturally work in fellowship with them.
In so doing, we will be allowing nature’s powers of healing and restoration of balance to take their course ensuring success. The trunk or central spine of our ethos is that heart and mind meet and collaborate in conception and in harmony branch out into multi-faceted implementation of systems and channels to apply to every situation as needed. This is in order to protect, restore, regenerate and educate and support the individual and the collective to live in fellowship with each other, living in accordance with nature’s teachings and ways.
This is a movement of urgency motivated by love with a unified vision that an abundant and healthy world be restored and mapping assured for future generations.
Meet the team
Marguerite Leathley
Director
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Nancy Joyce Hunter
Director
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Andy Egan
Director
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Hilary Campbell
Growing Diversity Project Co-ordinator
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John Hardy
CTNC Events & Network Coordinator
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Join us to grow and restore forests and communities for future generations.
John Hardy
I am from Ireland and have been living in Edinburgh for almost 8 years. As a keen hillwalker I have enjoyed making the most of living close to the Highlands, though their beauty is tinged with a sadness at the loss of the temperate rainforests that once stood there. Since moving to Scotland, I worked as the Campaigns Officer for the Scottish green party helping to bring about a change in attitudes to nature at all levels of government.
I have also been deeply involved in community and environmental activism, from setting up a community supported agriculture scheme and local community groups to divestment campaigning and non-violent direct action. I am also fortunate to have a small piece of land in Ireland where I have been planting native trees for the past four years and allowing the land to form a more natural, wild state.
I believe that the decisions we make as humans in the next few years will determine the future of all life on this planet. Planting and caring for trees is one of the most important things we can do to rebalance our world. As Wendell Berry said, “The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility”.
Hilary Campbell
Hello, I am a Human Ecologist with a passion for trees! I have many years experience of supporting and enabling people to improve their wellbeing through community and Nature based projects. In the past, I have worked as a Land Advisor in the Highlands of Scotland supporting community groups to purchase land for sustainable projects, I have co-ordinated volunteers for charities and managed projects for local government in Southern England.
I live in West Dorset and am an enthusiastic walker and garden rewilder. I am a competent networker and community developer, I aim to share this to my full potential within my work for Fellowship of the Trees.
Andy Egan
Marguerite Leathley
I am committed to being of service within my life, having worked both within the UK and internationally supporting vulnerable people and children. I have enjoyed engaging in peaceful activism and am passionate about human rights, equality and the environment. My own journey of self-healing has led me on my path as a healer which later developed into a practise of Shamanism and a calling to honour the sacred within all.
I have a loving communication with nature, the trees, and other plant and animal spirit allies, who have guided me to become a servant of Gaia, our mother Earth. One of my greatest joys in this work, has been to create spaces where people can gather to pray for the Earth and our future generations. I believe in the power of this, and in the power and responsibility of humanity to choose a future where the Earth is restored, abundant and thriving.
Though there is a sense of urgency for us to act, there is also love, community, healing and beauty available to us all in this work. This is my experience and vision for the Fellowship of the Trees and I pray it brings happiness and harmony in every way possible.
Nancy Joyce Hunter
Hi, I am Nancy Joyce Hunter, it is an honour to be here and I am grateful for this opportunity. Since a young age, mother earth has been close to my heart, she is forgiving and tender – always providing, devoid of ties. For that reason, I and all of us have an innate responsibility to ensure her restoration and maintenance. I have played and worked on various earth projects – also being one of the team members who helped create and manifest Fellowship Of The Trees – curating projects, ideas and fundraising to bring people together in loving community, supporting awareness of the trees and the re-wilding process and encouraging people to honour the trees, their home and the earth that we all share.
As an intuitive coach, working from a heart space; my joy lies in supporting you to explore, open and embody the Wildly Joyful You! The main models I work with are Solution Based, I am Imagination, The Laws of Assumption, Projection, Attraction, and Identical Harvest which explore how our individual vibration and focus consciously manifest our desires into reality. I look forward to supporting you to fully bring your dreams and desires into reality. Are you ready to live the life you dream?