Please find below a few Tree related items.. widely varied and from a range of contributors. Please also add your own articles / links, or send them to Kate

This page is growing... and just a beginning, so please also keep coming back... Please also see the HiT Alliance pages for more tree information...

Click here for a copy of the recent Hereford Civic Society Newsletter, guest editted by Mike Townsend of the Woodland Trust and Mo Burns of the Hereford Tree Forum.

Click here for the Woodland Trust's website

And this Woodlland Trust webpage gives you some tools to lobby local councillors for more trees in your area: take a photo of your street - and then see how it would look with addedd trees!

Project 100 aims to plant 100 trees in our community in 2012 and has been developed to redress the balance resulting from Amey’s carbon footprint.

An article in Hereford Civic Society stated Amey had 170 vehicles producing carbon and we decided as a business to do something about it.

The benefits of planting trees are well documented with communal, environmental, social and economic advantages evident. It is generally well known that trees can help to moderate climate, improve air quality, conserve water and harbour wildlife.

Studies into the social benefits of trees have even shown that hospital patients recover from surgery more quickly when their hospital room has a view of trees!

We hope neighbours, communities and schools will come together to plant trees in their playgrounds and community spaces. Schools and community groups are welcome to apply for free trees. Staff from Amey will also be available to assist with planting and advice where needed.

If a community group or school you are involved with would like to benefit from being involved in Project 100 please fill in the attached application form and return to Amey by 29th February 2012. Amey will provide a maximum of five trees per application and applications will be accepted on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. Trees can be planted up until the end of March 2012 or from November 2012.

Sign up for excellent NCVO Funding updates from: http://www.fundingcentral.org.uk

Click here for a recent edition of Tree Times

The Woodland Carbon Code is a new voluntary standard for woodland creation projects in the UK which will make claims about the carbon dioxide they sequester. Independent certification to this standard provides assurance and clarity about the carbon savings of these sustainably managed woodlands.

For more information, click here

Please find attached below (or click on the links)

1. Allotment Forestry Article - Small Woods Association Magazine article, an inspirational child-friendly project (you will have to click on this to view it.. don't be put off when it first loads!)
2. Sidney Nolan Trust Big Lottery Fund (Wildlife scheme closed now) successful application for woodland community education scheme.
3. Treebog Information