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22 January 2025

As we start a new year, it is the perfect time to look back at everything we achieved…

10 December 2024

More Trees is passionate about growing, planting and caring for trees. Since 2008, we’ve planted over 16,000 trees…

4 December 2024

Since 2008, More Trees have planted 16,000 trees around Bath and North East Somerset, transforming our local landscapes…

29 November 2024

BRITAIN IN BLOOM UK FINALS 2024 Bath has once again been crowned champions in the 60th anniversary year…

MORE TREES are Growing! Local Bath charity MORE TREES is thrilled to announce the grand opening of its…

27 February 2024

As we come to the end of this season’s tree planting, More Trees has some whips available to…

10 January 2024

We are thrilled to share some exciting news with our More Trees community. In our first year participating…

We are thrilled to share our first newsletter of 2024! Read on to see our highlights of 2023…

We are delighted to announce we have been chosen for Bath Building Society’s annual Charity Awards programme for…

Saturday 30 September How to be extraordinary – a day for Bath residents, visitor and families to see…

Our seed collecting season starts this September. We will be collecting from local woodland every Tuesday, and on…

Jackie joined us at our Seed Collecting training session last September and has been a regular volunteer since.…

We planted around 800 trees on two Curo owned sites at Whiteway Green and Axbridge Road over 3 days in…

30 January 2023

Faris Attia is usually seen at Thursday sessions at the Hub helping other volunteers processing seeds and ensuring…

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This week we visited Peasedown St John Primary sch

This week we visited Peasedown St John Primary school to plant some hedging and trees in their school field 🌿🌳.

The planting was funded by BANES council through the support of the local councillor Gavin Heathcote who came and helped with the planting. Thank you to Headteacher, Ruth Noall, for her support in helping make this happen 💚

We were joined by pupils Faith, Emily, Sophie, Harvey, Albie and their Pastoral Support Mentor and nurture team leader, Sarah. The children took to it in no time. Definitely budding green fingers in there! What an amazing job they all did! 👏💚

We planted around 160 shrubs and trees including
alder, crab apple, dogwood, elder, hawthorn, hornbeam, oak, rowan, silver birch, spindle, whitebeam, wild cherry, wild privet and wych elm. A huge mix! 🍃

And a big thanks to Charlotte and Jo from our schools team who supported us 🫶💚

It was a lovely way to spend a sunny morning ☀️🌿🌳💚

Last week we were at the Oval in Bath planting a m

Last week we were at the Oval in Bath planting a mini woodland in the Miyawaki method. This involves dense mixed planting of native trees to stimulate growth and tree cover quickly in small spaces. We’re excited to see what happens! 🌳

The planting will soon have a small fence around it to protect the young trees and a gate for visitors to walk through the paths and watch then grow 🌿

We were joined by volunteers from the @cannedwinecompany @bath.mind @curo_group as well as locals, regular tree planting volunteers and some of our dedicated central nursery volunteers.

It was a lovely couple of sunny days☀️and so nice to chat to many people walking in the park about the planting and sharing our excitement about what it will bring 🌸🫐🐝🐛🦋🐦‍⬛🍃🍂

A BIG thank you to all of you! 🫶 A lot of trees planted and mulched in a small area. Great teamwork everyone! 💪

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Happy International Women’s Day! Here’s to al

Happy International Women’s Day!

Here’s to all the amazing women who have been a part of More Trees and here’s to all the other women out there.

Keep empowering each other! 💫 ⭐️

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Last week we enjoyed two days of tree planting, on

Last week we enjoyed two days of tree planting, one sunny and one less so, in Weston, Bath ☀️ 🌧️ 🌳

We planted a small woodland of shrubs and native trees on Holcombe Green which will bring a mix of flowers, berries and nuts 🫐🍒🌸🌺

Thank you to everyone who joined us: Curo, Bath in Bloom, Wild about Weston, students from the V-Trees team, regular volunteers and tree planters and a number of local residents 🙏

The trees planted were grown from seed collected from local woodland and grown on at our community and school tree nurseries, including trees grown by pupils at local school WASPS. So great to see them planted around the corner! 💚

Day 2 we planted a long hedge either side of the entrance to the local allotments. This will provide a wonderful habitat for wildlife and produce berries and flowers.

It was a fun and busy couple of days and fantastic to see so many different people come together to improve green spaces for nature and locals.

The van packing after day 2 was a good sign of how much energy had been expended! 😂

Thank you again to everyone involved! 🙏🫶🌿🌳🌸💚

Our volunteers enjoyed a fantastic fruit tree graf

Our volunteers enjoyed a fantastic fruit tree grafting workshop at Barrow Mead run by the wonderful @mattmccabe63 🍏💚

Each volunteer was able to graft onto 3 rootstock from scion cut from the various apple trees in Matt’s orchard 🍎🍏

It was a lovely way to spend a sunny Saturday morning ☀️

Thank you Matt! 💚

We’re planting on Holcombe Green in Weston! 🌳

We’re planting on Holcombe Green in Weston! 🌳

More Trees and Curo are coming together to plant
trees and a hedgerow to enrich the green space
for wildlife and the community.

We’ll be there from 10am to 3pm on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th and would love you to come and join us 💚

We bring everything you need. You just need to wear appropriate clothing and bring some lunch if you want to stay for the day. The tea, coffee and biscuits are on us!

To come along, please email us on:
volunteers@moretrees.earth

We hope to see some of you there ☺️🌿🌳💚

😍 Say it with Trees! 😍 Show the one you love

😍 Say it with Trees! 😍 Show the one you love how much you ❤️ them and the planet by giving them a gift certificate to support our work. They come in £10, £20, £50 and any higher value. Make a donation via https://localgiving.org/charity/moretreesbanes, and message us with your details, who it’s for and any personal message. We can post a printed copy on your behalf (UK only), or to save resources, a PDF copy for you to print out / send on yourself. 🥰

Lots going on at our Central Tree Nursery! The I

Lots going on at our Central Tree Nursery!

The IBCs for harvesting rainwater have arrived, we’re building new cages to protect root trainers full of newly sown tree seeds and we started planting a new hedge with trees donated by a neighbour.

As you’ll see it wasn’t an easy move but hopefully they’ll settle into their new home 🌳

And all under some crazy weather! 🌦️🌈

Great work everyone 💚

Our first update of 2025 is now on our website 🌱

Read about our 2024 highlights and what we have coming up for the start of 2025 🌿

Please head to the news page on our website or click on the link in our bio 🌳

We look forward to seeing you in 2025! 💚

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It’s that time of year 🌳 and here are the 3 big planting projects we have coming up.

All days start at 10am and will finish by 3pm. Join us for the morning through to lunch (1pm) or bring some lunch and join us through to the end of the day. We’ll bring everything else needed including gloves and tea, coffee and plenty of biscuits!

- Tuesday 28th/Wednesday 29th January at Green Heart Farm in Almondsbury (Bristol). We are planting around 1000 trees replacing some felled ash trees and creating new woodland. A pizza 🍕 lunch will be provided here!

- ⁠Tuesday 25th/Wednesday 26th February at Holcombe Green, Weston. We are planting 750 trees into woodland and a hedge.

- ⁠Tuesday 4th/Wednesday 5th March at The Oval. We are planting 700 trees into a Miyawaki style forest (which will also be fenced in).

If anyone would like to join us at any of the above, please do email us on: volunteers@moretrees.earth

We can offer x4 lifts to Almondsbury.

Exciting times!

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Tree lifting has begun! 🌿🌳 Brilliant work b

Tree lifting has begun! 🌿🌳

Brilliant work by everyone last weekend at Dry Arch and today at Walnut Springs. Teamwork 🤝🫶

Over 1000 trees lifted so far! 💪🌳

Check out tomorrow’s post for news of where our trees are being planted in their forever home 💚

More Trees is looking for two new Trustees to join

More Trees is looking for two new Trustees to join its Board!

We are a charity passionate about growing, planting and caring for trees. Since 2008, we’ve planted over 16,000 trees and now grow our own saplings from
seeds collected locally. We operate 17 community tree nurseries, in various settings including schools. We have three amazing employees, a great board of four trustees and a fantastic team of committed volunteers.

We hope one of our new trustees will become Treasurer so would like to see applications from candidates with previous treasurer or financial management experience. We would also encourage
applications from those who may be interested in growing into the role of chair of trustees in the future and have previous board and/or chair experience. Applications from those with no finance or board experience would also be welcome and we encourage applications from our existing volunteer base.

Finally, we are also keen to hear from individuals:
• Based in the local area, around our central Hub in Twerton
• With experience of woodland creation, tree nursery production, or local politics

Our trustees play a vital role in ensuring More Trees achieves its vision. We want enthusiastic contributors who share our values and have a strong interest in what we do.

If you have the passion and commitment to join us then we want to hear from you.

Please see the linktree in our bio for more information 🌿💚

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