Credit buyer · England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Forest Carbon (woodland and peatland carbon)
Develops woodland and peatland carbon projects with landowners, certifies them under the UK codes and finds buyers or sponsors to fund planting and restoration.
- From
- Forest Carbon Ltd
- Who can apply
- Landowners, tenants or their agents anywhere in the UK; smaller sites may be funded by sponsorship instead of certification.
- Buys
- woodland carbon, peatland carbon
What you’ll need
- Land you own (or landlord consent) that can become permanent woodland
- Land that is not legally required to be woodland already (additionality)
- Usually a felling/creation plan and EWCO or other grant checks
- Registration with the Woodland Carbon Code before planting starts
How to apply
- Use the contact form on forestcarbon.co.uk (land managers)
- Agree whether to certify and sell carbon or take sponsorship
- Register, plant/restore and validate
- Forest Carbon markets the units
Payment terms, fees and minimum size are not published; ask how much of the carbon value you keep. Woodland Carbon Code planting is a permanent change of land use to woodland that binds you and later owners, with monitoring and verification for the project life (often 100 years). Units are usually only part-paid at validation (Pending Issuance Units are a promise, not a finished credit) and the rest on verification years later. Converting farmland to woodland can lower its farmland value and change inheritance tax relief: APR covers land in environmental agreements with government or approved bodies, but private carbon deals may not count, and APR/BPR has been capped since April 2026. Get independent land-agent, legal and tax advice before signing. The government Woodland Carbon Guarantee closed in October 2024.
Similar schemes
- Woodland Carbon (buys your woodland carbon) OpenWoodland TrustThe Woodland Trust covers planting costs and buys the carbon units from new native woodland you plant, paying in stages.
- Woodland Carbon Code (selling woodland carbon units) OpenForestry Commission (UK standard)Register new woodland so you can sell carbon units to buyers on the open market.
- Bidwells LLP (Woodland Carbon Code project developer) Open all yearBidwells LLPListed by the Woodland Carbon Code as a project developer covering England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, offering registration, validation and verification, sale of carbon units and woodland creation design.
- Brown & Co LLP (Woodland Carbon Code project developer) Open all yearBrown & Co LLPListed by the Woodland Carbon Code as a project developer covering England, offering registration, validation and verification, sale of carbon units and woodland creation design.
- CarbonStore (Tilhill) woodland and peatland carbon Open all yearCarbonStore, part of Tilhill ForestryDesigns, plants and manages new carbon woodland and peatland restoration for landowners, registers it under the codes and buys or sells the carbon units.
- Climate Impact Partners (buys/sells UK woodland carbon) Open all yearClimate Impact PartnersCarbon retailer listed by the WCC as a project developer and aggregator that sells woodland carbon units to corporate buyers, so it can buy or market units from your validated project.
Checked against the official pages on 29 October 2026. Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Always read the official page before you apply.