A leading housebuilder is marking its 50th anniversary by donating 1,550 trees to The Queen’s Green Canopy, helping to celebrate and honour the life of Queen Elizabeth II.
This represents a donation of 50 trees for each of our operating companies – including four regional businesses based in the South West – and head office, demonstrating the housebuilder’s commitment to enhancing the biodiversity of its sites across Britain.
Fran Leedham, Group Sustainability Director, says: “I’m proud that in our 50th year we’re able to honour and celebrate the remarkable life of Queen...
There’s just over a month left to apply for free trees from Devon County Council.
Devon County Council is offering free packs of trees to landowners and communities within Devon, thanks to the Emergency Tree Fund granted by The Woodland Trust.
Each pack will contain 45 trees, comprising three types of native broadleaved tree commonly found throughout the county.
A total of 3,150 trees were planted by landowners across Devon who took part in the scheme last year, which also supported The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative as part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee...
Two-time Premiership Rugby winners the Exeter Chiefs, are lending their support to Otter Brewery’s #PintsMeanTrees scheme – an environmental initiative which sees the Devon based producer of quality cask ales and lager plant a tree for every brewer’s barrel they sell in 2022.
On Thursday 24th March, Otter Brewery Managing Director Patrick McCaig joined Tony Rowe OBE, Chairman and Chief Executive of The Exeter Chiefs, plus England international Henry Slade and Club Captain, Jack Yeandle to plant the first of 50 trees at the Chiefs’ home ground of Sandy Park.
Taylor Wimpey Exeter recently helped pupils at St Martin’s Primary School in Cranbrook plant 10 new trees to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The donation from Taylor Wimpey was to support the school’s involvement in The Queen’s Green Canopy campaign, a unique tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee this year which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”.
Pupils worked together to plant the trees with the help of a Taylor Wimpey Sales Executive from the Cranbrook development.
As part of their mission to ‘Turn Bluegrass Green’ Exeter based IT support business Bluegrass Group are delighted to announce that they will be planting 25 trees for every new client that signs up for support.
Joint Managing Director David Thomas comments ‘As a business we want to become more aware of our impact on the planet and we’re keen to take measures to offset our business footprint. This is one of the first steps we will take in order to become a more sustainable business.
It’s critical that every individual and every business takes action against the climate crisis...
Trees have been planted at County Hall in Exeter as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative to celebrate the forthcoming Platinum Jubilee.
The commemorative planting by Devon County Council supports the call for everyone to ‘Plant A Tree for the Jubilee’.
Vice Lord Lieutenant Lady Arran, who, with four Deputy Lieutenants, is helping the Lord Lieutenant with the Queen’s Green Canopy, was joined by Deputy Lieutenant, Philip Jenkinson, Devon County Council Chairman, Jeff Trail BEM, and County Council Leader, John Hart.
For the second year running, people are being asked to take a picture of their favourite tree in Exeter as part of a photographic competition.
The person who takes the best image will win a Haynes tree manual, a tree trail field guide and a framed photograph of the picture, with the runner-up receiving a field guide. There is also an under-16 category for budding junior photographers, with the same prizes for the winner and runner-up.
The competition is being run by Exeter City Council in the run up to National Tree Week – 27 November to 5 December, with the prizes...
Urgent action is being taken to remove almost 1,500 Ash dieback infected trees from alongside Devon's major road network this summer in order to protect public safety on the county's roads.
Devon County Council has already started an essential programme of work, with almost 150 infected trees alongside the A388 at Holsworthy currently being felled. From Monday (12 July) work will start on the A399 at Brayford to remove 220 trees with Ash dieback that are within falling distance of the highway.
Detailed inspections have been undertaken on the trees by an independent...
Road verges cover 1.2% of land in Great Britain – an area the size of Dorset – and could be managed to help wildlife, new research shows .
University of Exeter researchers used Google Earth and Google Street View to estimate that verges account for 2,579 km2 (almost 1,000 square miles) of land.
About 27% of these verges are frequently mown, 41% is wilder grassland, 19% is woodland and the rest is scrub.
There are "significant opportunities" to improve verges by reducing mowing and planting trees, the researchers say.
Leading independent software company RapidReg Ltd. located in Exeter is on a quest to plant 1 billion trees as part of an aspiring initiative to save the planet by offsetting the carbon footprint generated by businesses, whilst helping them to attract a new wave of green-minded consumers all for just 15p per tree.
Studies suggest between 75%-90% of the total global carbon emissions are produced by businesses and not individuals. Proactive tech entrepreneur Chris Collins co-founder of ‘The Billion Trees Project’, a non-profit arm of his RapidReg brand said: “These are scary...
