{"slug":"borders-forest-trust","name":"Borders Forest Trust","tagline":"Restoring native woodland and wild habitats across the Southern Uplands of Scotland since 1996","description":"Borders Forest Trust (BFT) is a Scottish charity based at Monteviot Nurseries, Ancrum, near Jedburgh, set up in January 1996 to restore native woodland to Southern Scotland, the part of mainland Scotland with the least native woodland. Its flagship is the Wild Heart of Southern Scotland: Carrifran Wildwood (bought in 2000 with donations from around 600 supporters, where over 750,000 trees and shrubs have been planted), Corehead and the Devil's Beef Tub (2009) and the 1,800 ha Talla and Gameshope estate (2013), together over 3,000 hectares of connected habitat restoration including peatland. Volunteers and contractors plant tens of thousands of native trees and montane plants each winter, and BFT also runs community woodland, orchard and education projects across the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway.","website_url":"https://www.bordersforesttrust.org","logo_url":null,"founded_year":1996,"org_type":"nonprofit","scope":"regional","headquarters":{"city":"Ancrum","region":"Scottish Borders","country":"GB","lat":55.5125,"lng":-2.5917},"volunteer_url":null,"donation_url":"https://justgiving.com/bft","events_url":"https://www.bordersforesttrust.org/events","featured":false,"trees_on_record":750000,"primary_activity":"reforestation","activities":[{"slug":"reforestation","name":"Reforestation","primary":true},{"slug":"education-advocacy","name":"Education & advocacy","primary":false},{"slug":"research-monitoring","name":"Research & monitoring","primary":false}],"updated_at":"2026-11-08T00:02:16.194Z","url":"https://treerm.org/org/borders-forest-trust","markdown_url":"https://treerm.org/org/borders-forest-trust.md","api_url":"https://treerm.org/api/v1/organizations/borders-forest-trust","data_note":"Borders Forest Trust's website is a JavaScript app that does not expose its text to crawlers, and its 2024-25 accounts give no planting totals, so planting figures here come from third parties: the Guardian (via Wikipedia) for 750,000+ trees and shrubs at Carrifran by 2024, a local news report for about 23,000 trees in the 2023-24 season, and a 2026 Scottish Land & Estates awards nomination for 10,500 trees in 2025 and 220 ha of woodland plus 80 ha of peatland at Talla and Gameshope. Other sources give Carrifran's total as about 700,000.","derived":{"annual_trees":[{"year":2024,"value":23000}],"latest_annual":{"year":2024,"value":23000},"yoy":null,"cagr":null,"dollars_raised_per_tree":null,"cost_per_tree":null,"trees_per_volunteer":null,"survival":null,"hectares":{"value":300,"year":2026,"cumulative":true},"transparency":{"score":70,"label":"Well documented","points":[{"key":"annual","label":"Publishes annual tree figures","earned":5,"max":20,"why":"1 year of annual figures on record (5 points each, up to 4 years)"},{"key":"recent","label":"Figures are recent","earned":15,"max":15,"why":"Latest annual figure is for 2024"},{"key":"sourced","label":"Every figure has a public source","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"5 of 5 figures link to a source"},{"key":"money","label":"Publishes financials or cost per tree","earned":15,"max":15,"why":"Revenue or cost-per-tree figure on record"},{"key":"survival","label":"Reports survival or monitoring","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No survival or monitoring figure"},{"key":"verified","label":"Independently verified figure","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"At least one figure confirmed by a third party"},{"key":"programs","label":"Breaks figures down by program","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"Figures attached to named programs"},{"key":"people","label":"Reports volunteers or events","earned":5,"max":5,"why":"Public events listed"}]},"methodology":"https://treerm.org/methodology"},"countries":["GB"],"social_links":{"instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/bordersforesttrust/"},"programs":[{"slug":"carrifran-wildwood","name":"Carrifran Wildwood","activity":"reforestation","description":"Restoration of a 1,500-acre glen in the Moffat Hills to native woodland; planting began on 1 January 2000 and volunteers still plant several thousand trees a year on the upper rim.","url":"https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/rewilding/rewilding-projects/carrifran-wildwood","started_year":2000,"ended_year":null},{"slug":"talla-gameshope","name":"Talla and Gameshope","activity":"reforestation","description":"1,800 ha upland estate bought in 2013 where native woodland and montane scrub are being created and degraded peatland restored.","url":"https://www.scottishlandandestates.co.uk/node/5089","started_year":2013,"ended_year":null},{"slug":"corehead","name":"Corehead and the Devil's Beef Tub","activity":"reforestation","description":"640 ha farm acquired in 2009 near Moffat, planted with native trees and montane plants by volunteers and contractors.","url":"https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/rewilding/rewilding-projects/carrifran-wildwood","started_year":2009,"ended_year":null}],"metrics":[{"metric_type":"funds_raised_usd","year":2025,"value":1335000,"is_cumulative":false,"program":null,"source_url":"https://opencharities.uk/sc/SC024358/files/2025-06-30-accounts.html","source_note":"Trustees' annual report and accounts for year ended 30 June 2025 (filed with OSCR, charity SC024358): 'income of GBP 998,205 in the year'; expenditure GBP 815,082. Converted at 1 GBP = 1.3374 USD (open.er-api.com, 7 Nov 2026).","confidence":"estimated"},{"metric_type":"trees_planted","year":2024,"value":23000,"is_cumulative":false,"program":null,"source_url":"https://dng24.co.uk/tree-tastic-efforts-boost-rewilding","source_note":"DnG24 (Moffat), 17 May 2024: '23,000 trees being planted in the hills surrounding the town since autumn' (2023-24 season) across Talla and Gameshope, Carrifran and Corehead; site breakdown in the article sums to about 25,000 trees and montane plants.","confidence":"verified"},{"metric_type":"trees_planted","year":2024,"value":750000,"is_cumulative":true,"program":"carrifran-wildwood","source_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrifran_Wildwood","source_note":"Wikipedia, citing Ben Martynoga, The Guardian, 20 March 2024: 'Over 750,000 trees and shrubs were strategically planted' in the first 24 years at Carrifran.","confidence":"verified"},{"metric_type":"hectares_restored","year":2026,"value":300,"is_cumulative":true,"program":"talla-gameshope","source_url":"https://www.scottishlandandestates.co.uk/node/5089","source_note":"Same nomination: Talla & Gameshope has '220 hectares of native woodland and montane scrub habitat' created and '80 hectares of degraded peatland' restored; 220 + 80 = 300 ha. 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