Description.
We are a not-for-profit group of eight individuals who meet informally about six or seven times a year on a Friday afternoon. In between meetings we discuss and plan over email.
Our Mission Statement.
Alleviating climate change
Increasing biodiversity
Enhancing the local environment
What we have planted;
Over 3600 hedgerow plants on 6 sites around and within Lambourn by permission of the landowners.
Hundreds of 3 metre blossom and fruit trees on 5 of those sites and within the village.
Thousands of spring flowering bulbs all around the village on verges and green spaces.
How we do it.
Planting usually takes place between late November and February. Almost everything we plant and use is procured for free from carbon offset providers, wildlife trusts and West Berkshire Council. Planting a hedgerow plant is quicker and easier than you might think, following the Woodland Trust’s guidance and slit planting method.
We are in close contact with the Trees and Hedgerows Department at West Berks Council. They have given us approval to only plant deep-rooted larger trees on designated sites in the village which they have indicated to us, and which have no services underneath.
We are under the umbrella of and receive insurance cover from The Lambourn Junction Community Interest Committee.
We receive funding from LJCIC, and sometimes from Lambourn Carnival. This has paid for large trees which our suppliers no longer fund and some equipment we had to source ourselves.
We maintain a large mailing list of local volunteer planters. For larger projects (420 – 670 hedgerow plants) we organise specific planting mornings, usually on a Saturday. Lambourn School Year 5 pupils have helped us plant nearly 100 plants on each of our hedgerow planting projects. If you’d like to help please reply to the contact information below.
Contact information.
Please reply to trees@lambourn.org
