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Training

Delivered 256 courses to 2,789 learners around the UK and Ireland.

Recruited 5 new trainers.

Introduced 4 new courses.

Public facing

Sent out 15,000 tree watering tags and 130 boxes of arb resources in 2023/24.

Recruited more than 40 Arb Ambassadors.

Created the What is Arb video, viewed by more than 43k people.

Research Funding

Awarded £10,000 in grant money to four arboricultural projects: researching a national database of tree data (2022), risk management (2022), trees and pollinators (2023) and ash dieback (2024).

Webinars

Delivered 34 free Wednesday Webinars live to more than 18,000 people in 125 countries.

Events

Held three Annual Conferences in Warwick University, with 79 speakers presenting to a total of 983 delegates.

Held two ARB Shows at Westonbirt (2023 and 2024), with more than 10,500 attendees in total.

Helped deliver more than 46 Branch events across the UK and Ireland.

Partnerships

Worked with a wide range of professional organisations covering areas including arboriculture, horticulture, the environmental sector and forestry.

Represented on cross-sector groups such as the Access All Areas equality, diversity and inclusion strategy for horticulture.

Supported charities such as Perennial to help people working in horticulture and arboriculture.

Registered Consultants

Increased Registered Consultantnumbers to 45.

Took 23 Registered Consultants through the Quality Assurance process to ensure standards are maintained.

Technical

Put 41 practical and 22 consulting candidates through VETcert examinations.

Submitted responses to a wide-ranging number of professional consultations.

Publications

Sold 19,686 publications (including eBooks).

Developed and launched a new eBook platform in 2023.

Marketing

Averaged 2m website views per year.

Attracted more than 30m views of the ARB Show 2024 knot tying video.

Increased social media following from 70k to more than 100k

Climbing competitions

Facilitated 5 tree climbing competitions.

Facilitated 5 tree climbing competitions including the UK & Ireland Championships and ARB Show Open, attracting more than 250 competitors.

Entered successful UK & Ireland Climbing teams to the International (ITCC) and European (ETCC) Tree Climbing Competitions.

Approved Contractors

Increased Amenity Approved Contractor numbers by 5%.

Increased Utility Approved Contractor numbers by 50%.

Produced a new Scheme Handbook and Standards.

Recruited 7 new Assessors.

International
Co-operation

Promoted UK arboriculture through attendance at international events and participation in working groups and meetings.

UK & Ireland representatives to the International Society of Arboriculture and the European Arboricultural Council.

Membership

Overall membership growth of 5.4% between 2022-24.

Chartered Environmentalist numbers increased by 19% in 2024.

Achieved the milestone of more than 3000 paying members.

ARB Journal

Published 71 articles.

More than 350,000 article downloads.

More than 120 citations.

Succession

Launched Succession in Arboriculture project to help secure the future of arboriculture.

Created an Arb Educator Working Group to bring educators and trainers together.

Promoted arboriculture at school and prison career days, and with Jobcentres through the Department for Work & Pensions.

Political Activity

Members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gardening and Horticulture and the Environmental Horticulture Group.

Successfully lobbied for a change to primary legislation relating to red diesel regulations in 2023.

Developed strong relationships with government departments such as Defra and the DWP.

Governance

Updated and adopted the Articles of Association.

Approved a new Governance Policy and Trustee Code of Conduct.

Undertaken training for all Trustees.