Elevate your adventure and live life in the trees.
By promoting healthy outdoor activities and wellbeing, we aim to elevate our customers’ experience in nature by allowing them to interact with it in a completely new, fun and innovative way.
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TENTSILE MISSION:
We invented our Tree Tents and Giant Hammocks to inspire us all to help protect and conserve our remaining global forests.
OUR STORY:
Tentsile Ltd is an innovative outdoor equipment company that has redefined camping and outdoor experiences with its revolutionary Tree Tents and Giant Hammocks. Founded by Alex Shirley-Smith, the company introduced a groundbreaking concept that merges camping with conservation. Tentsile's tree tents are suspended between trees, minimizing environmental impact while providing an elevated and immersive camping experience.
Founded on the principles of sustainability and adventure, Tentsile's products have gained global recognition for their unique design and eco-friendly ethos. The company's commitment to responsible camping practices and conservation is evident in its collaborations with environmental organizations, supporting reforestation efforts and promoting Leave No Trace principles.
Tentsile's portfolio extends beyond tree tents, encompassing a range of outdoor gear designed to enhance the connection between humans and nature. From camping hammocks to weather-resistant accessories, Tentsile's offerings reflect a dedication to innovative design and functional utility.
With a passion for both nature and adventure, Tentsile Ltd continues to inspire outdoor enthusiasts to explore the world while minimizing their impact on delicate ecosystems. The company's fusion of creativity, sustainability, and exploration has reshaped the camping industry and encouraged a more mindful approach to outdoor living.
As we’ve grown, the team have maintained our drive for sustainability and the protection of trees. Since introducing their pledge to plant trees with every tent sold, we've planted 1,000,000 trees!
TENTSILE CORE VALUES:
"If we're all hanging out in trees, they can't chop them down!" - Alex Shirley-Smith, CEO
Repair, Recycle & Upcycle
We try to make sure that none of our products ever end up in landfill so we've introduced programmes to repair and upcycle all of our products as they reach the end of their usable life
Carbon Counting
It's important that our activities as a business have as little impact on us as possible and we have a number of initiatives to ensure this is the case. We and our supply chain are now single-use plastic free!
Ethical Production
All of our products are manufactured by our expert team in a purpose built facility. We're extremely proud to pay our production team fair wages and provide a safe and healthy workplace, within a comfortable and clean environment
Why We're Here
The first Tree Tent was designed with principles of ecological respect and improving the human experience in the Great Outdoors in mind. For every tent purchased we make a donation to plant 20 trees with our partners. So far, we have helped plant over 1,000,000 trees in projects located across Madagascar, India, Zambia, and the United States.
From the start of May 2023, we are very proud to announce our new tree planting partnership with veritree where we now have a Tentsile Tree Planting Portal that shows exactly where your trees are being planted.
WeForest are supporting 75 traditionally forest-dependent villages in the east and north of the Khasi Hills in India to restore their forests by establishing natural fire lines to protect the forest and restoring endangered flora.
Fruit trees have been given to those living the area and 52 fuel-efficient cooking stoves have been distributed to encourage a reduction in fuelwood consumption.
Up until May 2023, we have been proudly partnered with Eden Projects and WeForest and together, we have reached the incredible total of 1 million trees planted to date! Here is more about these partners.
In Zambia half of the nation’s forest has been decimated in the last 50 years. WeForest are working to reverse deforestation by supporting local farmers in Luanshya to be financially independent in return for protecting the Miombo woodlands, and adopting sustainable farming methods such as bee-keeping, egg-rearing and vegetable-growing.
Farmers are also receiving training and support to establish home-based nurseries to increase forest growth. WeForest also support farmers in gaining ownership of the land in order to secure sustainability and longevity of the conservation and livelihood outcomes.
We have been working with Eden Reforestation Projects since 2015 supporting projects across Madagascar where there is a rich biodiversity of more than 200,000 species of plants and animals that are unique to the island. Shockingly, 90% of Madagascar’s original forests have been destroyed.
Eden Projects work to restore the devastated mangrove estuaries and build local economies in impoverished communities.
In the Kijabe Forest in Mozambique, Eden Projects is replanting and protecting forest systems, and the conservationists who are surveying, planting and patrolling the area sleep amongst the trees in Tentsile Tree Tents!
Tentsile - 10 Years of Fun, Hard Work, Tree Tents, & More
