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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 […]

We’ve just launched a new gift card featuring pictures taken at the land at Seend by our fantastic volunteer photographer Kevan Wind. Every £2.50 buys us another square metre […]

Many thanks to Boona Boona Coffee Roasters for choosing ANT to benefit from their sales. For each kilogram sold, Avon Needs Trees will receive a donation, giving us very […]

Avon Needs Trees is looking to hire a freelance project co-ordinator to work 21 hours per week to help us continue our conservation work across the Bristol-Avon […]

We have reached an agreement for our second land purchase – 19 acres of land at Seend near Melksham! This new piece of land is just seven […]

Last weekend we had our first official volunteer work days at Hazeland. Around twenty volunteers joined us over the two days. The weather was gorgeous, loads of work got done and […]

Fantastic news! We are thrilled to announce that Bristol Energy has chosen to support Avon Needs Trees through their Additionality Fund, raised by their customers across 2019/20. All renewable […]

Earlier this year we planned to bring author and economist Chris Goodall to Bristol and Chippenham to speak about his new book What We Need To Do […]

It has been many weeks since we updated you on our purchase of Hazeland, the 34 acres near Calne where we will be replanting and rewilding to […]

In November 2019 we submitted a bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund asking for a very significant sum of money to help us buy Hazeland. We […]

Huge thanks to everyone who voted for us in the Community Matters scheme at Waitrose in Clifton, Bristol. We got confirmation at the end of March that […]