Corporate Tree Gifts for Clients and Employees

Trees make one of the most memorable and low-friction corporate gifts available — they carry a clear ESG message, scale to any list size, and arrive with zero shipping, clutter or waste. They won't suit every recipient or occasion, so pair them with a personal note and be honest that a gift of trees is a genuine environmental contribution, not a substitute for cutting your own emissions.

Why trees work as a corporate gift

• Memorable — a living, geolocated gift stands out far more than another branded mug or bottle of wine that ends up in a drawer.
• On-brand for ESG — tree gifts tie directly to your sustainability story and give recipients something concrete to associate with your company.
• Scalable — one order covers five clients or five thousand employees, with no per-item packing or postage.
• No logistics or clutter — nothing to warehouse, ship or dispose of; the gift lives outdoors, not on a shelf.
• Affordable at volume — you can gift from £1.5 per tree, so budgets stretch across large recipient lists.
• Compliance-friendly — a modest tree gift avoids the gift-policy awkwardness that alcohol, hampers and expensive items create in regulated industries and public-sector accounts.

Where corporate tree gifts fit

The most common use cases are client thank-yous, employee milestones and onboarding welcome gifts, event and conference giveaways, and end-of-year holiday gifting. A tree planted for a new hire on day one, or for a client after a signed contract, turns a routine gesture into a small story people actually remember and share. Our corporate gifting case studies show how teams use the same batch of trees across several of these moments through the year.

Budgeting: what to spend per person

The instinct is to divide the budget by the list and gift one tree each. Resist it — a single tree per recipient reads as tokenistic, and the marginal cost of five is trivial. Rough guidance that works in practice:

• Event or conference giveaway: 1–3 trees per attendee, with the certificate as the takeaway rather than another tote bag.
• Employee milestone or onboarding: 5–10 trees, ideally one per year of service for anniversaries.
• Client thank-you after a deal: 10–25 trees, scaled loosely to the relationship rather than the invoice.
• Key account or year-end gift: 50+, presented as a named grove for that client.

Even at the top of that range, the per-recipient cost sits below most physical corporate gifts — and nothing goes in a landfill.

Getting the execution right

1. Name every certificate individually. One company-wide "we planted 500 trees" announcement is a CSR line item. Five hundred named certificates is a gift.
2. Send it away from December. A tree gift in a January or a mid-year inbox gets read; the same gift on 20 December competes with everything else.
3. Write one human sentence. Recipients forgive a small gift; they do not forgive an obviously templated one.
4. Give the location, not just the number. The GPS pin is the part people click and forward to a colleague.
5. Pair it for VIPs. For a handful of top accounts, a small physical item alongside the certificate covers the people who like to unwrap something.

How bulk gifting works on Evertreen

You order the number of trees you need and we generate a branded landing page plus personalised, downloadable gift certificates for each recipient — so every client or employee receives something that looks like it came from your company, not a generic third party. Each tree is geolocated with a GPS pin and progress photos, so recipients can see exactly where their tree stands and watch it grow rather than trusting an abstract promise. For high-volume or automated gifting — loyalty rewards, per-order thank-yous, HR milestones — our API and Shopify integration let you trigger tree gifts programmatically at scale.

Supporting ESG and engagement without greenwashing

Traceable, GPS-located trees give you something defensible for ESG reporting and employee-engagement programmes, because every gift maps to a real, verifiable planting rather than a vague pledge. Evertreen has been featured in 300+ media outlets, which helps when you want a partner your stakeholders can check. Keep the framing honest: present tree gifting as a positive contribution alongside your own reduction efforts, and let recipients browse the trees you can plant so the impact stays transparent.

Two framing rules that keep you safe. First, gifted trees are a contribution, not a carbon claim — do not describe a gifting programme as making anything carbon neutral. Second, if you need audited tonnes for reporting, that is a separate purchase: certified Verra and Gold Standard credits are available on request. The distinction is explained in tree planting vs carbon offsets.

Frequently asked questions

How much do corporate tree gifts cost? Trees start from £1.5 each, and bulk orders scale from a handful of clients to thousands of employees without added shipping or handling fees.

Can I add my company branding to the gift? Yes — each order comes with a branded landing page and personalised gift certificates, so recipients see your company name rather than a generic sender.

Can we automate tree gifts for orders or milestones? Yes. Our API and Shopify integration let you trigger tree gifts automatically for events like completed purchases, new hires or loyalty rewards.

How many trees should we gift per person? More than one. Five to ten per recipient reads as a real gesture for employees and clients, while one tree each tends to feel tokenistic.

Do tree gifts count towards our carbon reporting? Treat them as a contribution rather than a carbon claim. For audited tonnes in a report, use certified credits alongside the gifting programme.

Can we gift to recipients in multiple countries? Yes. Delivery is digital, so there is no shipping, customs or address problem — one of the main reasons distributed teams choose it.

What if a recipient doesn't care about sustainability? Keep the note personal and short, and pair the certificate with a small physical item for those relationships. The gift works on permanence and thoughtfulness, not only on environmental values.