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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 […]

Woodland trust conservationist Jeremy Evans came by Hazeland and through his eyes we saw a wonderful range of habitats that we hadn’t clocked – tree fungi, wet […]

On Monday 19th August university lecturer and neuroscientist Rui Costa completed a 4 day, 90 mile kayak challenge from Reading to Bristol while raising awareness of deforestation […]

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