Climate & Environment

Trust hopes money grows on trees as it targets €7m funding

Not-for-profit Nature Trust is on a mission to plant new open-access woodlands and restore natural habitats at scale across Ireland

John Beckett, co-founder and chief executive of ecommerce firm ChannelSight and founder of the Nature Trust. Picture: Fergal Phillips

The Nature Trust, a not-for-profit joint venture established by tech entrepreneur John Beckett and Coillte, the state-owned commercial forestry business, is seeking to raise €7 million in a new funding round.

The venture, which has raised €10 million over two oversubscribed rounds to date, is on a mission to plant new open-access woodlands and restore natural habitats at scale across Ireland. Deloitte is managing the new fundraise on behalf of the Nature Trust.

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