Free trees for CWA member planting projects
CWA has been contacted by Carbon Footprint, an environmental consultancy that offers tree planting opportunities to its clients as part of their sustainability programmes. This means that they are always looking for planting sites for these trees. The trees are paid for by their clients so there is no cost to the organisation carrying out the planting. They usually are 1 year old whips of UK native species and come with a cane and spiral guard if required.
Key points:
The planting project can be woodland creation, enrichment planting or restocking.
The trees are supplied by a large commercial nursery, who should be able to supply plants of appropriate provenance.
Currently the scheme supplies native broadleaves but we have asked about native Scots pine.
The minimum number of trees is 10 per species.
There is no set maximum number of trees that you can apply for, although the numbers that can be supplied will depend on Carbon Footprint's clients, so smaller projects, requiring hundreds or a couple of thousand trees, might stand a better chance than those needing tens of thousands (that shouldn't stop large projects applying though).
It's up to the clients which projects get supported, so there are no guarantees that you will receive trees if you apply.
In some cases the clients may offer some volunteer labour to help plant the trees (Realistically the more remote you are from major centres of population the less likely this is to be feasible, environmentally speaking).
The process:
Complete the very simple application form and send it to Alex Stores: alex.stores@carbonfootprint.com
If you have any queries about the operation of the scheme please contact Alex at the email above