By planting a tree in Celebration Wood, you’ll not only be helping to restore and expand this special habitat, you’ll also be adding to Wild Haweswater’s store of memories. Whether marking a special occasion or in memory of a life, every tree planted in Celebration Wood has a story.
To find out more, contact the RSPB’s Celebration Wood Officer for Wild Haweswater, Bea Normington, by calling 07719 078962 or emailing bea.normington@rspb.org.uk. Bea will help you find the tree you would like, and discuss the tree-planting arrangements with you, including details of your ceramic markers.
Planting a tree in our Celebration Wood is a wonderful way to remember the life of a loved one or mark a special occasion. Your tree will be a living, lasting tribute which will help us expand and enhance Wild Haweswater’s rare rainforest.
Your kind donation – our suggested amount is £495 for a tree or £795 if you are also interring ashes – will cover the cost of growing and caring for the tree as well as the creation and maintenance of Celebration Wood. It will also support wider work around Wild Haweswater and throughout the RSPB.
You are welcome to return to the wood as often as you wish, as your tree grows and becomes part of a rich and diverse habitat for nature to thrive.
You can now make your tree donation online. Our Celebration Wood Officer will be in touch after your donation to discuss your requirements.
Wild Haweswater's Celebration Wood neighbours the mossy, temperate rainforest of Naddle Forest, home to Red Squirrels, Badgers, Pied Flycatchers, Tree Lungwort Lichen and a host of other wonderful woodland wildlife. This corner of the eastern Lake District National Park is a beautiful, peaceful place for quiet reflection and connection with nature.
Our collection of beautiful, native trees include Sessile Oak, Alder, Willow, Rowan, Downy Birch, Aspen, Hawthorn, Crab Apple and Bird Cherry.*
They are grown from seed collected at Wild Haweswater, by our staff and volunteers in our on-site nursery – the largest native tree and plant nursery in the Lake District.
We'll help you choose the tree that's right for you, and suited to your preferred planting location.
You'll also be able to select a pair of personalised ceramic tree markers, beautifully hand-crafted in the Lake District. One to hang on your tree, another to keep.
*Please contact our Celebration Wood Officer to check which native tree species are currently available.
Wild Haweswater is a ground-breaking landscape recovery partnership between the RSPB and the landowner United Utilities. Since 2011, our pioneering restoration work, led by an expert team of RSPB conservationists, has been enhancing this beautiful landscape for the future, to benefit wildlife, water and people.
The site encompasses 30 km2 of rainforest, woodland, moorland, farmland, rivers, meadows and bogs, all set within the dramatic, mountainous backdrop of the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park, that encircles the mighty Haweswater reservoir.
We will do all we can to make your planting day as special as possible. You are welcome to attend the planting and watch in the tranquillity of the wood, or be involved in the planting itself.
If you're unable to attend the planting, our team can plant your chosen tree on your behalf, email you a picture and post the second ceramic marker to you. You can then come to visit your tree at another time if you wish.
Our other memorial woodland sites are: Dove Stone in the Peak District, and Lake Vyrnwy in Wales
As well as planting a tree, you can also leave a message and share memories and photos of happy times at Haweswater on our dedication page.