About Forest Fund

• We help protect the world’s remaining natural Forests, one of the ways we do this is by farming trees and encouraging other businesses to do the same.   
• We talk to businesses about their environmental impact and educate around the circular bioeconomy. 
• We explain how this can be profitable and tax efficient.

The Legal purpose and status of Forest Fund:

• We are acting solely as an introducer or representative agent for Climate Positive Organisations, institutions and initiatives for which we are remunerated, we then uses some of this money in reforestation projects.
• We are not a collective investment scheme, and therefore are not regulated by the FCA.
• Forest Fund is formed as sole trader under Jamie A Cowan
• We are not an unregulated collective investment scheme, and therefore not managed by an authorised alternative fund management company which is regulated.

This is an interesting topic and one that cannot be answered in full in the small space here.

At a high level this falls in two categories

Protection of the forests. 

• Trees are great and we need more of them to help reduce atmospheric carbon. 
• Natural forests have so far been reduced by about 50% due to human activities.
• We need to protect our remaining natural forests.
• In order to protect the remaining forests we need to plant trees specifically with the intention to harvest for timber. This will reduce our dependence on the remaining forests.

Timber as a substitute for concrete and steel 

• We need to be using more wood, not less. 
• Timber is renewable and recyclable. (If worked responsibly)
  Growing Timber and using it as a building material has a net positive impact on the environment.
  Concrete and steel have a negative impact.
  We need to substitute timber for concrete and steel.

Please read David Robarts article

Watch the David Attenborough documentary HERE.

We connect businesses with environmentally beneficial projects. Some are designed to make money for the business, some designed as passive or easy ways to help the environment and some as philanthropic activities, all however with the purpose of protecting the remaining forests we have.

Our goal is to protect the remaining natural forests, we do this by educating business about the circular bioeconomy and encourage them to farm trees which helps alleviate the pressure on our limited resources. We explain the simple thing companies can do like switching search engines, and planting trees for their staff members. 

This depends on what your company’s goals are. We work with a number of organisations ranging from planting deciduous trees in the UK, to highly efficient carbon sequestration trees like Teak which grows in the tropical zone around the equator. Depending on what your company’s objectives are we can help find the right trees.

This depends on what your company’s goals are. Some companies work with us on the basis that they wish to give back to the planet, they feel the business activities they conduct have a negative impact on the environment, they work with us to find projects that have a genuine positive impact on the environment and atmospheric carbon. 

We encourage organisations to advertise to their customers what they are doing, adding sections to there website and marketing material about the positive activities they are conducting.

The international Accountancy community (IAS) and the British government’s treatment and application under GAPP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) are now addressing biological assets of which trees are one, the world is changing and the accountancy has moved with it.

The information on this website is not intended as advice. A company or individuals tax affairs depend on circumstance. Please speak with a qualified Accountant regarding you or your organisation’s position.   

We would recommend discussing with your accountant

• IAS 23 Borrowing costs 
• IAS 41 Biological assets 
• FRS 102

Our solutions are very scalable therefore typically we would like to work with companies that are comfortable discussing hundred of thousands.

However this depends on your company’s goals.

We work with a number of organisations ranging from planting deciduous trees in the UK, to highly efficient carbon sequestration trees like Teak which grows in the tropical zone around the equator.  Depending on what your company’s objectives are we can help find the right tree.

We work with companies that can help you plant your own trees, sources from UK seed stock for as little as £15 all the way to companies farming trees with a minimum of £5k.  

The building you are currently in and the buildings around the world account for 40% of global carbon emissions (Source) By addressing how we build we can make a huge difference to the ongoing effects of climate change and carbon emissions. If you need information on why our current carbon emissions are harmful are go here (source) 

Growing trees and specifically farming trees are currently the only way to reduce atmospheric carbon at scale. Technology is doing its best to find innovative ways, however trees remain our cheapest option at present. 

Depending on your companies goal, you may feel a philithotopc desire to donate to the tree cover of the world, or we have projects that aim to make a profits on the sale of the timber. 

However, here we need to be careful how we answer: 

Trees are a biological entity and as such their growth is dictated by numerous factors.  The value of the timber thereafter is also dependent on many things.

What we can say is that we can help you find projects that have a proven history of being profitable for their clients growing specific timber that has had a long history of impressive financial value. 

For years Royal families, the church, university endowment funds have trusted timber trees and forests with their capital. (Source) we wish to educate the business world that trees can be beneficial from an environmental standpoint as well as the bottom line.

Depending on where your interests and goals lie we can introduce t you to various trees in different locations across the world. From fast growing carbon sequestering trees in tropical zones that can take 10-12 years to be at a harvestable state to slow growing Oak in the UK countryside that typically grow for hundreds of years.

If your goal is to farm trees for potential profit and you work with a organisation that helps you achieve this then we need you to know upfront that trees are very illiquid. 

You will need to be sure that your objectives are on a timescale that suits the growing of trees. There is currently no established market for for selling a tree farming business.

So we need to direct you to our Friend David and the VOX article he wrote last year. Here it explains why using concrete and steel is harmful to the environment, why 40% of Co2 in the atmosphere is from the buildings we live and work in. 

Please read David Robarts article

We need to be growing the right tree in the right place. When we do they have a positive impact on the environment.  

Trees are a biological entity and as such are susceptible to many factors: disease, fire ect more to add…

For centuries the Church, The Royal family and University endowment funds have known about the benefits of placing their capital in growing timber. 

More arroud:

Recession proof 

Inflation proof 

Pandemic proof 

Always growing 

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Trees are great, they’re currently the only way to reduce atmospheric carbon at scale… we have high hopes for technology but we need to plant now for two reasons. 

1. For growing timber as a substitute for concrete and steel
2. For the beneficial properties of reducing atmospheric carbon.

More more more to come