Useful organisations.
If you are looking for further information about orchards, the best place to start is with your local orchard group. You will find some here, and some in our list of partners. The following organisations are also very orchard-friendly. And of course you are welcome to contact Orchards East .
- Ancient Tree Forum - looking after our ancient trees
- The Abundance Network – harvesting fruit trees up and down the country
- Community Land Advisory Service – offer free advice and useful training to orchard groups about land access, leases and finding a site
- The Conservation Volunteers - help hundreds of thousands of people each year to reclaim local green places
- English Heritage - gardens and landscape conservation
- Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group - helping farmers with trusted, independent environmental advice
- The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens - supports, represents and promotes community-managed farms and gardens across the UK
- Fruitful Schools – planting fruit trees in schools across the UK
- The Gardens Trust – dedicated to the research and conservation of designed landscapes
- The National Allotment Society – promotes and preserves allotments for all
- The Orchard Project - bringing community orchards to cities and towns
- National Trust
- Royal Horticultural Society - provides advice and inspiration on all aspects of gardening
- Sustain - the alliance for better food and farming
- Transition Network - A movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world
- The Wildlife Trust – caring for more than 2000 nature reserves including notable old orchards
- The Woodland Trust - the UK's largest woodland conservation charity