Volunteers replanting forests with the Native Woodland Trust connect 2018 • 17 With The Ireland Funds support of €25,000 the Native Woodland Trust attracted matching funding as well as a media partner and distributed over 20,000 trees to schools all over Ireland. With The Ireland Funds support of €100,000 land in the Wicklow Mountains was purchased and is now being transformed into an upland forest. With The Ireland Funds support of €100,000 an additional €65,000 was raised locally to enable the purchase of the rare ancient floodplain forest of Camcor in the Slieve Bloom mountains. With The Ireland Funds support of €500,000 the Native Woodland Trust has been funded for 3 years—including employing 2 full time staff, setting up an office and running 150 free-to-attend events for local communities all around Ireland.