Avon Needs Trees
Photo: Daisy Brasington
About Avon Needs Trees
Avon Needs Trees is a registered charity creating new, permanent woodland throughout the Bristol-Avon catchment to fight the climate and nature emergencies.
Why more woodland?
Over recent centuries the Bristol-Avon catchment area has lost most of its woodland and is now one of the most deforested parts of the UK.
This leaves us vulnerable to the climate crisis, increased flooding, and a sharp decline in our local biodiversity.
Planting new woodlands is essential to tackle the climate and nature emergencies. Woodlands take many years to deliver these benefits, and there are increasing worries about whether new woodlands planted will still be here in the decades to come.
With any tree planting project, it is important to ask if there will be long-term maintenance to ensure the woodland will thrive, and if the trees will be maintained when land changes hands. The best way to guarantee the permanence of new woodlands is to purchase or legally secure the land on which they are created.
We are tackling the climate emergency by fundraising to buy land or partner with landowners to plant new, permanent woodlands of well cared-for trees that will store up carbon over time. New woodlands help natural flood management as well as helping local nature to bounce back.
Become a Woodland Hero!
Join our growing community of regular donors, where your monthly donation will restore habitats, establish woodlands to absorb carbon and alleviate floods, and make a lasting impact! Together, we can create a better future.
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Katherine's Aerobics | £75
Donation from Katherine's Aerobics attendees. Merry Christmas!
Eleanor Braney | £20
Catherine Dixon | £10.61
Thanks so much for a great talk tonight
Anonymous
Happy Christmas
Joanna | £1,412
This is the first instalment of funds raised to remember Fi Radford.
Alison Leaf | £10.61
Ewan
Chrissy Holmes | £36.57
Thank you for all you do! So happy to be able to donate some money!
Madeleine | £21.01
Every small step counts
Diana | £30
Anonymous
Transform Training | £104.08
I’m so pleased to donate to this fund and appreciate what this organisation is achieving. We need trees, they are our lungs, we breathe with them.
Alison | £52.16
Doing a FutureLearn course on climate change has reminded me how important it is that do our bit locally to improve forest cover and carbon sinks - well done!
Monkey Business Design Ltd | £1,246.34
Project Offset fees from Monkey Business Design
Chris | £46.97
In lieu of Christmas Cards. Plant trees, don’t cut them down.
Matthew | £160
A present for my parents & sister
Penny England | £72.93
For our grandchildren and our future to enjoy
Adam Chart | £100
Keep it up, hope do be down to help soon.
Lizzie Jones | £75
From the Children's Hearing Centre at St Michael's Hospital. We ran a fundraiser this summer to encourage us to get out in nature, improve our well being and every time we did, to pledge some money to Avon Needs Trees. Thank you for all the work you do. xxx
ANNETTE SLOLY | £21.01
Congratulations Genevieve and Matthew Green September 2020
Fritjof Koerber | £104.08
Having seen your work at Hazeland first hand, we simply must support your efforts for further purchases. This is urgent intervention for the region and our world
Ewan Gimson
Peter | £104.08
Keep going ANTs, we need far more of this
Bill | £100
Keep it up. Amazing that in 12 months the ants have success and are now moving to their next anthill
Ailie | £10.62
Such an inspiring cause.
Grant Mercer | £100.48
Thank you, Nikki, Dorian, and everyone else involved.
Grant Mercer | £33.50
Thanks to sewingjessbs3 who made bags we could sell to raise money for ANTs.
Tim Mason | £519.46
We have visited the site at Hazeland and found it well situated with a fishing stream at the bottom, a posh B&B and a good pub at the top of the hill. Well chosen! Looking forward to participating in some planting
Norman Abbott | £21.02
Thomas | £30
Keep up the good work!