The Arsenal Forest

When we recycle Arsenal kit, we make sure a large consignment heads to Bore for the workers at the Arsenal Forest - and this season the Bore Lionesses were in for an extra-special surprise.

Our near 60,000-strong forest diversified recently with the introduction of guava – and now there’s another new crop on the block.

Thousands of neem seedlings are being propagated in the community nursery in readiness for the coming planting season – but that’s not all...

How the Arsenal Forest is managed to benefit the entire community in Bore, Kenya 

How Irene Ziro used money she made working at The Arsenal Forest to set up a business selling second-hand baby clothes – and she now has a shop full of brand new clothes and accessories

Well done to our two Arsenal Forest football teams – the Bore Lions and Bore Lionesses – who both triumphed at this year’s Neem Cup in Bore, Kenya

How we’re nurturing the new trees at our second Arsenal Forest – and getting local children involved, too

The holes are dug, the rains have come… it’s time to start planting at the second Arsenal Forest

The football teams we support in Kenya, the Bore Lions and Bore Lionesses, took part in the region’s annual Neem Cup competition last week – and came close to a double!

A very important delegation arrived for a tour of Emirates Stadium last week – visitors from the Arsenal Forest in Kenya and our partners in the project, CarbonLink. And no one came away empty-handed…

Weather conditions are presenting a challenge at the Arsenal Forest in Bore – but our workers will always find a way around (or over) the challenges

As part of our support for Bore, home of the Arsenal Forest, every season we send a huge consignment of Gunners kit out to Kenya – and the latest batch has arrived safe and sound.

The matchday programme will again offset all of the carbon produced in the production of the publication by planting trees, so here’s the latest from our ever-growing Arsenal Forest – including some new arrivals

More on our new arrivals 

Our increased focus on sustainability led the matchday programme to partner with a non-profit reforestation organisation, Carbon Link, to ensure the publication was carbon neutral - and the Arsenal Forest in Bore, Kenya was born. Here’s an update on our progress so far

The women at the Arsenal Forest are finding success on the pitch to go with their employment off it

As part of the partnership between Arsenal and the tree planting community of Bore in Kenya, we have supplied the local team, the Bore Lions FC, with some genuine Gunners kit

Work began in Bore this week in preparation for planting 12,500 neem seedlings, ready for when the ‘little rains’ come in the next couple of months