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.
Our donors
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Tim Mason
donated
£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
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Norman Abbott
donated
£21.02
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Thomas
donated
£30
Keep up the good work!
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Katharine
Donation dedicated to my Dad, for Father's Day
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Andy Chester
donated
£26.21
Happy fathers day to Chris Noble
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Anonymous
donated
£5
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Paul
donated
£72.94
What a fantastic, positive project. More power to you. Paul and Sally
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Colin Taylor
donated
£10.63
So pleased to hear the news about Hazeland and look forward to helping out hopefully. Also donated £10 in March via My Giving Account Charities Trust.
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John
Lucy asked for this for her birthday
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Harriet
donated
£20
So NEEDED. The project is moving along well. I admire you.This donation is from a friend.
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Laura
Happy 60th Birthday to Andy!
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Marjory Combe
donated
£52.17
A birthday gift for Ewan Combe
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Stephen
donated
£50
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Teresa
donated
£10.62
I`m delighted that the area will get more trees. Great news. So pleased "Avon Needs Trees" has been established.
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Heather
donated
£52.16
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Fritjof
donated
£104.08
Briiliant project! Hope it happens soon and there will be many more to come
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Prina
donated
£74.86
Profit from our charity pop up cafe at Bristol University.
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Joanna Poulton
donated
£550
Thank you for all that you are doing to safeguard this planet for future generations.
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angela
donated
£31.39
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Annemieke and Tim Waite
donated
£519.45
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Adam
donated
£100
A great idea, something I am trying to do myself.
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Aarti
donated
£30
Thank you to Frome MC for hosting an excellent conference on how GPs can be greener and suggesting a donation to you.
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Jack Spruill
donated
£200
This is a great organization. Not only am I pleased to be able to donate, but I hope to volunteer as a tree planter once the land is acquired.
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Libby Watts
donated
£10
Off setting of short haul flights
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Ewan Gimson
donated
£300
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Anonymous
donated
£74.47
This donation was the profit from a bar ran by Climate Friendly Bradford-on-Avon at Bradford-on-Avon Town Council's St Margaret's Hall at the Green Homes event in January.
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Emily Gilbert
donated
£10
Happy 1st birthday Coral-Joy Trees are the future and so are you!
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Harriet
donated
£10.62
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Barney Maunder-Taylor
donated
£200
Once a month I travel from Bournemouth to London and back on a Sunday; there are no trains when I need to go and I can't always take the coach. Avon Needs Trees is the perfect local(ish) way for me to offset the carbon emissions for the occasions when I end up going by car. My wife and I also LOVE the whole idea of the project and are very excited to see how it progresses!
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David Martin
donated
£20