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The ANT team are excited to share some news: we are close to purchasing our next piece of land to plant a new permanent forest! It is […]

ANT is extremely pleased to announce the arrival of our new Director, Dave Wood. Dave brings strong management, fundraising and media skills and is a passionate environmentalist. […]

Tommaso Jucker of Bristol University and Nikki Jones of ANT discuss tree planting in the context of carbon capture, biodiversity and climate. Have you heard about the benefits of tree […]

It’s taken three months of hard work, using small groups of local volunteers, but finally all trees and shrubs are in the ground at Hazeland. Many thanks […]

There’s only one way to find out for sure whether we have dormice at Hazeland, and that’s to install homes and monitor them. The Men’s Shed at […]

We are really pleased to announce that Sussex University Professor of Biology and author, Dave Goulson (A Sting in the Tail, A Buzz in the Meadow, among […]

Nikki Jones, Chair of Avon Needs Trees and writer/researcher on energy issues, will be giving an overview of what has changed under Covid and what still needs […]

Valentine’s Day is Sunday 14th of February – why not mark the occasion with a Valentine’s E-Card from Don’t Send Me A Card for your valentine that […]

Seend resident Jo McManus is definitely doing all she can to help us raise the funds we need to buy the 19 acres at Seend. On the […]

Thanks to the help of dozens of local volunteers we have almost 2,500 trees planted at Hazeland! Each tree planting day is now restricted to a group […]

Avon Needs Trees is always looking for ways to amplify the benefits of buying and owning land, and one way is to allow local universities access for […]

We still need to raise several tens of thousands of pounds for our next purchase at Seend, near Melksham! To help us on our way, volunteer Hannah Sackett […]

We have trees in the ground!! After an extraordinary year of hard work by Trustees, volunteers and supporters of all kinds, our Woodland Trust trees were delivered […]

Many thanks to Dorian Wainwright who will be leaving us as ANT administrator and interim Project Coordinator at the end of December. Dorian has worked with us […]

One supporter made an incredibly generous commitment on Black Friday – 100% of his sales would come to Avon Needs Trees. James Ellis Stevens Ltd, publisher of gift […]

We are delighted to welcome Susan Barker as Avon Needs Trees’s new project coordinator. Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, we are able to contract Susan […]

Fi Radford was an environmentalist, activist and generous supporter of Avon Needs Trees. She died, far too young, on the 22nd November after a short illness. Her energy, […]

If you feel that you would like to help us fundraise in a more active way, Bristol-based aerobics teacher Katherine Piper is running two online sessions on Wednesdays […]

Huge thanks to Chris Swinburn and the whole team at Monkey Business Design for their donation of £1200! Redcliffe Nursery paid this as an offsetting fee on the work Monkey […]

We recently put out a call through the Wiltshire Ornithological Society (WOS), asking for photographs that we could use on Don’t Send Me A Card. This is a […]

We need help to monitor the birdlife at Hazeland, and on Sunday 24th of January, we are running a ‘citizen scientist’ event that will allow amateur enthusiasts […]

Avon Needs Trees volunteer Fern Elias-Stagg has produced a beautiful 2021 calendar with foraging recipes for every month, to inspire you to get out into nature and to localise […]

Huge thanks to the 139 of you who donated £7,239 (plus an estimated £1,352.25 in gift aid!) to our Crowdfunder campaign that closed last Friday. We smashed through our initial goal […]

Many thanks to Richard Harris and Andy Grant from the Hawk and Owl Trust who came to survey and give us advice on the siting of owl […]

On a wet and blustery Sunday in November we held a series of site tours for representatives of ‘green’ groups from across the catchment. This was an […]

On a beautiful September day, we officially launched Avon Needs Trees and celebrated our first land purchase – Hazeland. Wildlife presenter Miranda Krestovnikoff was there, wonderfully enthusiastic […]

Our crowdfunder campaign to help us buy 19 acres of land at Seend near Melksham will run until 1pm on Friday 30th of October. We’ve hit our […]

If you have applied for the job of Project Co-ordinator and are waiting to hear from us please bear with us! We had a big response and […]