By working with multiple organisations across the sector it was intended that, The National Tree Improvement Strategy (NTIS) launched in 2017 could help leverage funding for research from sources that individual parties could not access alone. The aim was to develop a high-level partnership between parties interested in identifying the challenges faced by tree genetics in the UK.

Future Trees Trust CONFOR and Forest Research combined forces to create the independent organisation known as The National Tree Improvement Strategy (NTIS)

NTIS launch

May 2017: Key contributors to the new National Tree Improvement Strategy document at the organisation’s inauguration as part of the Future Trees Trust supporters day in Cirencester

From left to right:Graham Taylor (Pryor & Rickett Silviculture); Jo Clark (Future Trees Trust);Steve Lee (NTIS Chair); Roger Coppock (Forestry Commission); Tim Rowland (Future Trees Trust);Andrew Heald (Confor); Geraint Richards (Duchy of Cornwall)