Free Trees Offered To Schools & Community Groups

Free trees are being offered to schools and communities across the Hfm Region to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next year.

The Woodland Trust has opened up applications for the second phase of the project, after over 7,000 were sent to 73 organisations in Leicestershire and over 5,000 to 68 groups in Northants, when it launched earlier this year.

Applications are accepted on a first come, first served basis and the first million trees will be despatched in November during the planting season.

The Trust welcomes applications from all types of community groups and people do not have to be part of a formal long-standing group, they just need to have a group name decided before they apply.

Senior project lead for the Woodland Trust Vicki Baddeley said:  “We’re always amazed by the appetite schools and communities have for tree planting. It is such a wonderful thing to do. It is a positive, life-affirming and life-changing action that people can take to mark momentous occasions like The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, to help tackle the climate and nature crises, or to make their local areas a bit greener. We find that once people have planted one tree, they usually want to do more.

“All the trees planted have a host of different benefits working hard to lock up carbon, improve soils and water, reduce the flow of flooding, provide shade and shelter, create havens for wildlife and a places to enjoy.”

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