Shifting Seasons: A Letter from our Exec Director

As we move into a new financial year, we’re taking stock and looking ahead. In this letter, our Executive Director Georgina shares where we are now, how we’re adapting, and what’s ahead — with a renewed focus on Nature connection and deeper impact.

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Dearest treesisters,

As I write to you with hopeful news about the future of TreeSisters, I want to begin by honouring you. In a world of rapid change and deep uncertainty, it is your continued presence - your belief and generosity - that has kept the heart of this movement beating.

At a time when many charities have had to close their doors, your commitment has ensured that TreeSisters still has a place in this world. When we called out for support, you answered. Your generosity carried us through appeals, matched campaigns, monthly gifts, and one-off donations. You’ve shown that this movement is defined not by numbers, but by courage, care, and shared commitment. We are deeply grateful and we stand together as part of something bigger than any of us individually.

Like many across the sector, we’ve faced profound challenges in recent years. As a grassroots organisation without institutional funding, we have had to make painful decisions - reducing our team size and scaling back our financial support to restoration projects as we adapt to uncertainty and a shifting landscape.

Yet, the need for our work has never been greater. We are witnessing the rise of intolerance, misogyny, overwhelm and harm, while women’s rights are eroded and the natural world faces relentless destruction and exploitation.

Still, thanks to this community, TreeSisters endures as a living commitment to compassion, respect, and harmony. Still rooted. Still reaching toward a vision where people and Nature live in reciprocity and balance.

TreeSisters has always been about more than planting trees.

At our core is a call to remember that we are Nature - and to reimagine our place in the world from that truth. This year, we’re deepening that focus. We’re expanding our work in Nature connection and advocacy - supporting people to stand united for our Earth and reclaim relationship, reverence, and belonging.

Through forest bathing, grounding practices, seasonal transitions, full moon gatherings, book club, advocating for Nature’s rights, as well as new offerings on the horizon, we’re inviting even more people into deeper reciprocity with the living world.

In our commitment to ethical, community-led reforestation, we’re evolving how we show up in the restoration space.

We’ve already shifted away from large-scale projects and are continuing to diversify — focusing on smaller, grassroots-led initiatives where care, collaboration and long-term impact can truly take root.

This move is a conscious step towards more meaningful, lasting change, with the added benefit of allowing us to be more agile in the face of global economic instability. While the number of projects we support may be fewer during this transition, with your continued support, we’re laying strong foundations for new commitments in 2025/6 and beyond — rooted in integrity, justice and care for the Earth.

Nature, women, community and ethics remain central to our purpose. We stand in solidarity - shoulder to shoulder with others who walk this path. From our restoration partners, to women’s groups and global allies rising in defence of life, to Indigenous leaders and the Mother Earth Delegation, TreeSisters is part of a growing movement of remembrance and restoration. Together, we are amplifying the call to return to Earth, to community, and to a way of being rooted in care, connection, and collective action.

This moment is not about doing less. It is about doing what matters - with greater clarity and intention.

Your support remains as powerful and vital as ever. Your gifts are shaping a future rooted in care and possibility. Together, we are working toward a bold and beautiful vision: a world in which Nature is cherished, communities are empowered, and restoration is a way of life.

Mother Earth needs us more than ever. Now is the time to rise with fierce love and deep purpose - for the forests, for each other, and for the generations yet to come.

With love and deep gratitude,

Georgina Georgina Gorman  

Executive Director

TreeSisters

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