This year marks a very special milestone for us as we celebrate our 60th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we are holding a mass public tree planting event in Camden, funded by the Mayor of London’s Greener City Fund, where everyone is invited to join in to help plant 3,500 new trees – it’s all free and lunch is provided! Where and when? Westcroft Close, West Hampstead, NW2 3RUSaturday 23rd November 2019 – 11am to 2pm Register your place to help plant trees Reaching 1 million trees! These trees will go toward our mission to plant more than 1 million trees in the UK by the end of this year’s tree-planting season, thanks to TCV’s partnership with OVO Energy. The event also marks the beginning of National Tree Week, which runs from 23rd November – 1st December. Darren York, TCV Chief Executive, said: ‘I Dig Trees’ is a remarkable, award-winning programme. …

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The Green Gym at Skelton Grange started life as a piloted project with local Clinical Commission Group (CCG) funding. With strong positive feedback – from both participants and the TCV team – funding from The National Lottery was applied for to allow the Green Gym to continue after the CCG funding ran out. Without the £9,996 grant from The National Lottery Awards for All, the Skelton Grange Green Gym would not have been able to continue. This funding has allowed the team at Skelton Grange to run at least one session per week over the year, including staffing, resources, travel expenses and training for Volunteer Officers. I don’t get out to do much exercise if I’m not at Skelton Grange.…

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The TCV 60th Anniversary Hero Awards are a celebration of the people who go above and beyond to support the work of TCV in communities across the UK.…

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Today is British Apple Day. Common Ground, a Dorset-based charity focused on community conservation and environmental education in England, launched Apple Day with the intention for it to be both a celebration and a demonstration of the variety we are in danger of losing. The first British Apple Day was held on this day in 1990, in the old Apple Market in London’s Covent Garden, bringing fruit to the market after a 16-year absence. At TCV, we want to celebrate the day by telling you about the Community Orchard in Longcroft Park, Worthing. The Community Orchard is part of our Growing Communities project in Adur & Worthing, supported by other local community groups and Adur & Worthing Councils’ Parks department. The orchard comprises of 12 trees, covering 6 Sussex varieties of apples: BossomAlfristonDr.…

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The Growing Communities project is a localised offshoot of TCV and is a partnership with Adur & Worthing councils, funded by The National Lottery’s Community Fund. The aim of the project is to radically transform the health and happiness of individuals living in the areas of Eastbrook in the Adur District and Northbrook in the Worthing Borough. Growing Communities is a community-led project which aims at improving the health and wellbeing of local people using green spaces as a canvas John Haigh, Operations Leader Activities are decided by the public, to enable them to get the most out of their local green spaces and ensure that they are being used in a way that fits the needs of the community. Since its inception, the Growing Communities project has provided the communities of Eastbrook and Northbrook with activities such as Green Gyms, gardening groups, community walks, a Community Orchard and holiday Fun Clubs, which have helped participants to learn practical skills from project planning and marketing, to conservation skills including woodland maintenance and seasonal planting. The Growing Communities team also deliver their own podcasts and produce their own community magazine. Improving green spaces makes the local communities feel like these spaces are being looked after, and they’re more accessible.…

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I Dig Trees has won the Corporate Social Responsibility Project of the Year at the 20th annual Charity Times Awards – celebrating best practice in the UK charity and not-for-profit sector. I Dig Trees encourages thousands of volunteers and community groups to make a difference to climate, to wildlife and to communities – by planting native trees in local green spaces across the UK. Watch this space for year five and another year of tree planting with TCV and OVO Energy for the treemendous programme, I Dig Trees. We have been working in partnership with OVO Energy since 2015 and the I Dig Trees programme is now entering its fifth year.…

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