The History of Tree Life

Tree Life was established in 1997 under the guidance of Dave Dowson who has worked in the industry for 28 years. Formally he worked in further education, the majority time as a lecturer in Arboriculture at Brooksby College. During recent years has passed the AA Technicians Certificate at credit level and the RFS Diploma in Arboriculture, become a Fellow of the Arboricultural Association (AA), following that success become a Chartered Member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters and a UK registered and qualified expert witness.

Tree Life Training focuses on providing specialist training for those candidates who are studying towards sitting for the ABC/AA Technician's Certificate and the Royal Forestry Society's Professional Diploma in Arboriculture.

In 2004 Andy Summerley joined the company from lecturing at Moulton College, previous to that Andy spent many years at Kettering Borough Council  managing contract operations. Andy also holds the AA Technicians Certificate and the RFS Diploma in Arboriculture.

Both are qualified teachers having spent 16 years between them teaching practical and management level arboriculture.

In between lecturing across the country Tree Life operates a consultancy service carrying out work for clients in relation to development sites, mortgage reports, subsidence investigations, safety inspections and tree surveys etc. The consultancy lends the credibility to the teaching provision, in that we can do and teach it!