Tree Planting 2020

• We still have 1000 trees to get in the ground, including 25 'mature' trees that will form a new arboretum area in the wood. 1 mature British native tree will be dedicated to each participating school, and the arboretum will commemorate lives lost and lives changed by the pandemic.

• We still have school groups booked in to plant trees in the woods during planting fortnight ( 16th - 27th Nov).
• We have several failed trees from previous years that need to be replaced and a new hedgerow that needs to be planted
• We do not have the usual ~1000 children to plant their trees this year - so now we need YOU.

• Volunteer to help run School's Tree Planting Fortnight (Mon-Fri between Nov 16th - 27th)
• Plant trees during our Saturday workdays (starting Nov 14th, see poster below)
• Plant trees during our Monday workdays (every Monday 10am - 1pm)
• If you have a child attending a local school, bring them up to the woods on a weekend workday so that they do not miss this important opportunity to add their own tree to the woods (please let us know which school you can represent).

Fundraising for the Woodland Classroom

• Purchase some of the wonderful green craft products that our volunteer team have been busy creating over the past few months. Including willow bird feeders, ash twig pencils, lavender bags, personalised wooden discs and willow wreaths (see photo below). We are happy to arrange collection points for you to pick up your products. - Please email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk to make a purchase.
   
• Attend our upcoming quiz night and/or enter the raffle! - 21st November, time tbc, via Zoom. £5 entry per person, free for under 16s. Raffle numbers are £1 per strip.
  Teams of 6 will be formed (but don't worry, you can book for as many or as little places as you like). All money will be paid via BACS - please email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk to book your place.
   
• Support ATU Youth Team member Dmitrijs Meiksan's fundraiser 'Walk Walk Walk' - he's walking 10 laps of Harmony Woods every day for 2 weeks, starting on Nov 2nd, and totalling an amazing 175km! You can watch the story unfold on his Instagram account here.

• Select ATU as your charitable organisation on Amazon Smile - and donate to ATU every time you shop through smile.amazon.co.uk. 
   
• Make a cash donation via Global Giving when the new 'cabin' project page goes live in December. Donations can be enhanced by Gift Aid - and on Dec 1st, Giving Tuesday 2020, donations will also receive match-funding.
   

Co-op Community Fund

How the Fund Works

Co-op Members can select to support our project between now and 23 October 2021. 

You can join the Co-op membership online at coop.co.uk/membership or by downloading the Co-op app. Where you will be asked to select your local cause.

Thank you!
 

About the Andover's Ash project

'Andover’s Ash’ builds on ‘One Ash’ and ‘Ash Tree Stream’ and will connect the Andover community to the Ash trees and chalk streams from which the town takes its name.

Timber from one Ash will be used by many; stories and accounts of contact with local Ash Trees will be mapped, documented and shared; locally collected songs and folklore will tell tales of living by the stream, further referencing the origins of the town’s name
 
Contributing to Voices Unveiled, which culminates in a festival in 2022, we will celebrate the final tree planting of, and all work created during, the 10-year ‘Harmony Woods’ project. Every aspect of creativity will be documented and shared in exhibitions and performances in the town.