We could be seeing a lot more lovely trees popping up all over the country thanks to a new campaign from the government that pledges to plant one million trees across England in the next four years.

The Big Tree Plant is the first Government tree planting campaign since the 1970s. It sees a new partnership between The Tree Council, Woodland Trust, Trees for Cities, England’s Community Forests, Defra and the Forestry Commission and is supported by grant funding of £1 million per year for the next four years.

Not only do trees cut pollution and cool hot streets they also improve air quality and harbour wildlife. The new trees will be planted in urban areas that need them the most and the Government hopes the campaign will get more people in local communities planting and caring for trees and that it will help make neighbourhoods more attractive, healthy places to live.

And the best news is, if your school or community wants to get involved, you can! Just check out thebigtreeplant.direct.gov.uk.

Don’t forget to tell us if you’re going to be planting trees in your area. Email us all the details at newsdesk@firstnews.co.uk.