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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 […]

We are now registered with Recyle 4 Charity. You can now recycle your used inkjet printer ink cartridges, or get a big box and recycle at work, […]

We’ve received a generous donation of £2000 from Achieve Breakthrough, a corporate personnel development company. To find out more about what they do visit their website. Huge […]

Bristol band Indigo Club launched their second Album Reaching for Deliverance at Cafe Kino in Bristol on the 1st of February and as part of the event […]

Avon Needs Trees is delighted to be hosting two events with economist and author Chris Goodall. The first will be in Bristol at the Wills Memorial Building […]

Cheques have started coming in from the various Waitrose supermarkets that have been supporting Avon Needs Trees through their Community Matters scheme. Waitrose Chippenham have raised £160 […]

We are delighted to formally announce that Water and Environmental Management lecturer at Bristol University Dr Claire Gronow and Bristol-based land-owner and experienced tree planter Gavin Spittlehouse […]

We were delighted to hear the children of St Stephen’s Primary School in Bath were having a mufti day in support of Avon Needs Trees! Everybody paid […]

We’ve had so much fun this year hosting guided nature walks in Bristol and the surrounding area for our supporters. In December we had our fourth walk […]

We have another local business supporting us! Mad Max Tours do small group day tours of places such as Glastonbury, Cheddar Gorge and Stone Henge and they’ve […]

Like many of us businessman Richard Watkins was considering buying land of his own to plant trees. But, again like many of us, he realised the long […]

Recently we were approached by Sarah Thorp who owns the art gallery Room 212 and the café/bar Alchemy 198 on Gloucester Road. She told us her customers […]

Avon Needs Trees is one of the chosen charities being supported by local Waitrose super markets! Right now if you shop in Waitrose Chippenham you can cast […]

We know many people are excited to actually plant some trees and those people are in luck. On Saturday November 30th the Woodland Trust are hosting The […]

Fantastic news! A family trust is granting Avon Needs Trees £150,000 to help us buy Hazeland! We’re truly grateful and thrilled that so many generous individuals see […]

The wonderful people of Aardvark Arts and Crafts have given £1000 to Avon Needs Trees to offset some of their carbon emissions. This is the first time […]

The Bristol Post and others are reporting serious flooding in many parts of the city as several big rivers burst their banks. This is ‘tidal lock’ – […]

We were thrilled to have Jon Attwood from The Woodland Trust visit Hazeland recently. He has given us lots of ideas on how to plan for forest […]

Local bat specialists tell us that we have the opportunity to seriously improve habitat for several endangered species. Greater and Lesser Horseshoe bats, and also Barbastelles, have […]