Tree Time! Free trees at Inverleith Park this weekend

Pick up your free garden tree this week at Inverleith Park!

We will be there from 12pm-3pm on Friday and 10am-2pm on Saturday giving away free trees for Edinburgh residents.

Just drop-in and get your free tree while stocks last!

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It’s Tree Time!

FREE TREES AT INCH NURSERY

Come along to our Free Tree giveaway to collect a free tree at Inch Nursery on February 24th & 25th!

We are giving Edinburgh residents free trees as part of the Edinburgh Million Tree City Initiative.

Find out more: https://tree-time.com/free-trees/

Woodland Trust Scotland calls for higher Native Tree Target

Free trees distributed to schools and community groups across country

Woodland Trust Scotland is calling on The Scottish Government to raise the proportion of native trees to at least 50% of overall planting targets – in the fightback against climate change – and the Trust is sending out nearly 70,000 free trees to schools and community groups across Scotland this month to start the ball rolling.

Between November 2 and 22 Woodland Trust will distribute 628,005 native trees to 3092 schools and community groups across the UK.

67,830 trees will go to Scotland where 281 schools and groups will benefit. These include:

North East Scotland College       SRUC       Sruc       Inverness College       Huntly Climate Action       Garthdee Field Allotment Association       Donside Village Community Scio       Milltown Community       Charleston Development       Neat (Newtonhill Environmental Action Team)       Community Cleanup       Udny Climate Action (Part of Put Community Scio   Scottish Charity Sc045547)       Mid Deeside Community Trust       Cultivate Aberdeen Scio       Gwens Garden       Bloomfield Blooms       Strichen Community Park       Milltown Community Day Workshop       New Deer New Homes Group       Strathdon Community Development Trust Paths Group       1st Hillside (5th Angus) Scout Group       Friends of Riverside Nature Park       Countryside Ranger Service       Downfield Golf Club Junior Section       Dighty Rangers       Kildonan Woodland       Cormonachan Woodlands Association       Deer Park Community Woodland Trust       South Islay Development       Kentallen & Duror Community Centre       Glebe Communal Garden       Netherthird Community Development Group       Aceswoodwynd       Gatehead Community Council       Skares..Skares Kinfolk and Residents Society       Galston Angling Club       Abbots Neighbourhood Action Group       Netherthird Community Action Training       Galston Community Trust       Dalleagles Neighbours       Kilmaurs Plant Community       48th Ayrshire (Dundonald) Scout Group       River Irvine District Bailiffs       19th Ayrshire Scouts       Centrestage Communities       Youth Church of Jesus Christ Of Latterday Saints       Hill Foots Bee Keeping/ Hill Foots Nature Walks       Gowan Lea Residents Association       Dollar Community Development Trust       Friends of Inchyra Park       The Lodge Arts Collective       Dumfries University Sustainability Team       Moffat Can       Moffat Community Woodlands       Glenkens Beavers       Moffat & District Community Nature Reserve.       Summerhill Community Centre       Moffat and District Wildlife Club       Cloverglen Support Services       Nith Valley Leaf Trust       White Loch Lane Association       Auchencairn Community Council       Mugdock Conservation Volunteers       Sustaining North Berwick       Goshen Owners Association       Musselburgh Shed Project       Friends of the Earth East Lothian       Gifford Community Land Company Ltd       Levenhall Family Rangers       North Berwick In Bloom       Friends of Ormiston Park       Dadswork       Garvald Wood       Beautiful Busby Village       Broom, Kirkhill and Mearnskirk Community Council       Siblings Reunited (Star)(Scio)       Dunnikier Park Golf Club       Ceres and District Community Trust       Crossgates Community Woodland       Kingseat Community Council       Whirlbut Street Allotments       Dunbog Community Park       Fife & Kinross Bat Group       Kinghorn Community Land Association       Square Start       12th East Neuk Scouts       Bat’s Wood, Growing Space & Bike Track (Scio)       Friends of Coves Community Nature Reserve       The Inverclyde Shed       Sleat Community Trust       Dunain Community Woods       Friends of Merkinch Local Nature Reserve,       Aigas Community Forest       Abriachan Forest Trust       Highland Wildlife Park       Aultnaskiach Dell Scio       Knockengorroch Community Interest Company       Growin4good       Palacerigg Field Archers       Friends of Douglas Park       Beecraigs       Falkirk Community Trust       Bonnie Blantyre       Darcy’s Equine Assisted Learning Centre Cic       Bluevale Shift Project       Friends of Strathaven Park       Cranhill Development Trust       Blackwood Estate Community Association       Friends of Knightswood Park       Friends of the Calder       3rd Blantyre Scout Group       Friends of Broomhill Avenue Greenspace       Dalziel Park Golf Club       Bellshill & Mossend Ymca       Walmer Crescent Association       Leech/Weir Residents Association.       Barmulloch Tenant Managed Homes       Coulter Village Development Group       Baltic Street Adventure Playground       Cohooley Woodland       Friends of Hailes Quarry Park       Little France Allotments       Newhaven Heritage Community Gardens       Juniper Green and Baberton Mains Community Council       28th Braid Scout Troop       Elginhaugh Gardens Residents Association       Tramways Community Gardens       Forrester Park Residents Association       Reforesting the Glens       Friends of the Braid Hills       Grampian Housing Association       Gomde Trust Scotland       Moray Sports Foundation       5th Orkney Scouting       Quarry Road Residents       Kilmadock Climate Action       Cistern Green Community Wildlife Garden &   Orchard       Teen Ranch Scotland       Doune Community Woodland Group       Perth Station Garden Club       Serenity Garden At Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal   Church       Brig In Bloom       Greenhaven Ecology Centre Cic       Alyth Development Trust       Alyth Development Trust       Garth Residents       Errol Primary School Parent Council       Lochwinnoch Golf Club       Wegga       Applecross Community Company       Wester Ross Growing Communities Association       Evanton Community Wood       The Trot on Trust       Easter Weens Residents Association       Glenormiston Steading Owners Association       Friends of the Monteath Mausoleum       Garvald West Linton       Reston Community Company Ltd (Riverside Project)       Oxton and Channelkirk Community Council       Works +       Tweedbank Allotments Society       Croft 178       St Andrews Church, Dumbarton       Dalmuir Plots Association       Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust       Ellis Vale Community Group       Oatridge Rangers and Countryside Stewards Society       Binny Golf Club, Oatridge Golf Course.       Friends of Zetland Park       Kirkliston Community Garden       Kids Gone Wild       Polkemmet Beekeeping Association       Slamannan Angling Protective Association       Falkirk Wildlife Conservation Group       Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow       Broxburn United Sports Club       West Harris Trust       Benbecula Community Council       North Harris Trust       Lewis and Harris Horticultural       Frugaldom       Greenbrae Primary       Liff Primary School       Craighead Country Nursery School       Riverbank Nursery       Wick Childminding Group- Earth Club       Baljaffray Nursery       Renfrew Street Nursery School       Country Bumpkins Nursery       The Glasgow Academy       St. Angela’s Nursery Class       Kirktonholme @ Coatbridge       Woodhead Primary Nursery Class       Holy Family Nursery       Elmcroft Nursery       Stane Primary & Nursery       C & K Nursery       Glenmanor Primary School       Chatelherault Nursery School       Stramash Outdoor Nursery       Callander Primary School Nursery       Cowie Nursery       Letham Primary School       Kinder Croft       Lochcarron Nursery       Greenforest Nursery       Armadale Primary School       East Calder Nursery Class       Woodside Primary       Heathyrburn Primary       Fraserburgh South Park School       Brimmond Primary  School       St Pius Nursery Class       Maisondieu Primary School       Carmyllie Primary School       Glamis Primary School       Kingspark School       Borrowfield Primary School       Kilcreggan Primary School       Easdale Primary School       Hermitage Primary School       Keills Primary School & Pre Five       Rhu Primary School       Crosshouse Primary School & Communication Centre       Pennyburn Primary School       Blacklands Primary Scool       Borestone Primary School       Gargunnock Primary School       Auchencairn Primary       St. Cadoc’s Primary School       Carolside Primary School       Victoria Primary School       Aberdour Primary School       Carnegie Primary School       Kettle Primary School       Raigmore Primary       Bun Sgoil Ghaidhlig Phort Righ       Balmalloch Primary School       Greenhills Primary School       St. Stephen’s Primary       Blairdardie Primary       New Monkland Primary School       St. Brendan’s Primary School and Nursery       Ibrox Primary School & Nursery Class       Eastfield Primary School       Morningside Primary School       Law Primary School       Whiteinch Primary School       St Michael’s Nursery Class       Elmvale Ps       Harmeny School       Davidson’s Mains Primary School       East Craigs Primary       Duddingston Primary       Doune Primary School       Our Lady’s Primary School       Fossoway Primary School       Kinnoull Primary School       Deanston Primary School       Breadalbane Academy       Glencoats Primary School       Glencoats Primary School       St Clare’s Primary       Golspie Primary School       Ogilvie School Campus       California Primary School       Leverhulme Memorial School       Banchory Academy       Turriff Academy       Westhill Academy       Webster’s High School       Thurso High School       Moffat Academy       St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School       King’s Park Secondary School       Lesmahagow High School       Clyde Valley High School       Broughton High School       Nansen Highland       Sir Edward Scott School       The University of Edinburgh

Our tree packs have been generously funded by lead partners Sainsbury’s, players of People’s Postcode Lottery, Lloyds Bank, OVO Energy, Joules, Bank of Scotland and Sofology

The Trust is currently taking new applications for trees to be delivered in March 2021. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/schools-and-communities/

Woodland Trust Scotland Director Carol Evans said: “Sign our petition at https://campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/67180/petition/1. We are calling on Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Roseanna Cunningham to include an ambitious native woodland creation target in the Climate Change Plan update. We are calling for that target to be at least 50% of new woods created.”

The Climate Change Plan update will soon be in its final stages of scrutiny by the Scottish Parliament.

As part of its Big Climate Fightback<https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-trees-and-woods/campaign-with-us/big-climate-fightback/> supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, Woodland Trust is asking people across the UK to take three actions: plant a tree, demand action of Government or make a donation.

The more ambitious native woodland target is Woodland Trust Scotland’s specific “ask” of the Scottish Government.

Woodland Trust Scotland Public Affairs Manager Arina Russell said: “A young wood, with mixed native species can lock up more than 400 tonnes of carbon per hectare, in its trees, roots and soil.

The Just Transition Commission’s <https://www.gov.scot/publications/transition-commission-advice-green-recovery/> advice on green recovery calls for diversified tree planting because native trees are more effective in capturing carbon.

“Currently around 40% of new planting in Scotland is with native trees. We would like to see this increased to at least 50% because native trees are more effective at capturing carbon when planted at scale and over a long period.”

Existing native woodland covers only 4% of Scotland’s land area and is highly fragmented.

Our native tree species include Scots pine, birch, alder, willow, oak, rowan, hazel, wild cherry, aspen, holly, juniper, elder and hawthorn. Over the last century commercial foresters have tended to plant non-native trees such as Sitka spruce. But native trees can be commercial crops too, while giving maximum support to biodiversity and locking up carbon.

Woodland Trust has pledged to plant 50 million trees across the UK by 2025 to help tackle climate change.

Talk to Us About Trees

Woodland Trust Scotland is seeking to work directly with more land managers to increase native woodland cover.

Senior Outreach Manager James McDougall said: “Land managers, farmers, crofters, fisheries boards – please talk to us about trees. Our advice is free and we can guide you through the Government grant process and in some cases offer financial support ourselves. Our highly-qualified advisors can help you through the entire process, from plan to planting.”

Woodland Trust’s MORE woods scheme covers 75% of the cost of trees, tubes and stakes for planting 0.5Ha – 3Ha. All the work beforehand is done by the Trust. All land managers need to do is plant the trees.

For larger areas applications can be eligible for up to 100% of materials costs.

For more information contact 

Scotland@woodlandtrust.org.uk

mailto:Scotland@woodlandtrust.org.uk>