Tree Planting Fortnight 2020

• During the fortnight, 21 standard trees and 250 hedgerow trees were planted by 10 school groups plus volunteers from the community.
   
• We were able to buy the 26 British native standard-sized trees thanks to a grant from The Tree Council.
   
• On Saturday, December 5th, the community tree, a whitebeam, and the remaining 4 school dedicated trees will be planted by families and friends of the schools, the Mayor, Cllr Hatley, and the ATU youth team -completing the planting of the arboretum.
   
• 10 schools came up over the fortnight out of the 26 that have signed up to take part. The other 16 schools will join us in the new year to add more whips to the hedge (supplied by The Woodland Trust) and to hang their own special labels on their arboretum trees, taking the total number of trees planted up to the yearly amount of 1000.
   
• Some schools have dedicated their arboretum tree to someone special - and all of the trees are dedicated to the lives affected by the pandemic. The planting of the community Whitebeam on the 5th symbolises a time to reflect on the year, the generosity and kindnesses of community, and the lives lost and lives changed.
   
• Early next year the arboretum will have a chalk scrape and wildflower meadow developed within it. Chalk wildflowers will be sowed in the centre of the looped walk, and the pond will be extended. 
   
• 3 of the schools each brought along and planted around 20 of their own trees that they had nurtured in their school nursery beds since they had been given to them by us last winter.
   
• In the middle of the fortnight, we held a fundraising quiz night! It was a lot of fun, a great way to spend the evening and we were pleased to welcome 80 attendees who together raised an outstanding £740! The most we've ever raised from our annual quiz night! THANK YOU! All money raised will go towards the new woodland cabin.
   

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. We are happy to arrange collection points for you to pick up your products. We will also be at the Andover high street market on Saturday 12th December. Please email eve.johnson@andovertrees.org.uk to make a purchase.
   
• 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. Donations can be enhanced by Gift Aid - and on Dec 1st, Giving Tuesday 2020, donations will also receive match-funding.
   

Funds raised will go towards the building of an eco-friendly woodland classroom and community space so that we can offer more opportunities to you, our community. Outdoor learning, community workshops, volunteering. Help us scale up, branch out, offer more and make a bigger, positive difference.
 

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.