Hedgerow Heroes Project
Get involved this project season
We’re excited to launch our fourth project season and are looking for volunteers, supporters and landowners to help us make an even greater impact across Gloucestershire this autumn and winter.
Together, we’re working towards our ambitious goal of planting and restoring 2km of hedgerow by April 2027.
Whether you’d like to get hands-on at a volunteering session, provide land for hedgerow planting, support the project through sponsorship, or learn valuable conservation skills, there’s a place for you as a Hedgerow Hero.
Explore the opportunities below and discover how you can help restore and enhance Gloucestershire’s hedgerows for wildlife, communities and the countryside.
Hedgerows are the lifelines of our countryside. They provide food and shelter for wildlife, capture carbon, help reduce flooding and weave together habitats across the landscape. But these vital green corridors are disappearing. Since 1950, around half of the UK’s hedgerows have been lost, leaving nature fragmented and our countryside less resilient to the challenges of climate change.
That’s why we launched our Hedgerow Heroes Project in 2023.
Bringing together volunteers, landowners, schools, businesses, community groups and local partners, we’re working to restore, create and protect hedgerows across Gloucestershire.
Every hedge planted and restored helps reconnect habitats, support biodiversity and strengthen the natural environment for future generations. But Hedgerow Heroes is about more than planting hedges. It’s about empowering people to take positive action for nature, learn new conservation skills and play a part in creating a greener, healthier and more resilient county.
Together, we’re rebuilding Gloucestershire’s hedgerow network, one hedge at a time.
Previous project seasons
Our work across Gloucestershire since 2023
SEASON 1: 2023-4
1.5km of hedgerow planted and restored!
SEASON 2: 2024-5
2.4km of hedgerow planted and restored!
SEASON 3: 2025-6
Over 2km of hedgerow planted and restored!
CPRE has championed hedgerows for a century, first warning against their “indiscriminate destruction” in our 1926 founding manifesto. Today, CPRE groups across England are continuing that mission through the Hedgerow Heroes initiative, restoring and protecting hedgerows for wildlife, climate and future generations. CPRE Gloucestershire joined the movement in 2023, and by becoming a Hedgerow Hero, you’ll be helping to continue this vital work right here in our county.
PROJECT SPONSORS
Our project sponsors play a vital role in helping us plant, restore and project Gloucestershire’s hedgerows.
Could you or your organisation give a hedge a helping hand this season?
Join our growing community of project sponsors and help us make a real difference.
Discover how you an support our work as a Gold, Silver or Bronze Sponsor and partner with a local environmental charity below!
