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Avon Needs Trees (ANT) Bristol based Avon Needs Trees is a registered charity (1184386) that is buying land throughout the Bristol-Avon catchment area to reforest it. Planting trees will sequester carbon from the air, enhance biodiversity and provide natural flood management, as well as water and air quality improvement, and more public amenity space. |
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead - American cultural anthropologist 1901-1978
3rd March 2021: Bad News about Seend...
Back in October your donation helped us raise over £7000 to get our campaign to buy 19 acres at Seend off the ground. Since then we've worked incredibly hard to raise the rest of the money and I'm proud to say our fundraising over the past four months has been extremely successful.
Unfortunately, a routine archaeological survey of the land has found evidence of potentially significant "magnetic anomalies" on the site we were planning to buy. These could indicate buried heritage - possibly Roman or Medieval - and if we bought the land now we would have to pay a minimum of £25,000 for investigatory archaeological work to find out more. If that returned even more results we would open up the charity to potentially enormous obligations. The only alternative would be to limit our planting to two hectares of trees - less than a quarter of what we had planned - which represents poor value for our funders and supporters. As such, having consulted with a very wide range of experts and professionals in the field, the trustees have made the painful decision not to go ahead with the purchase.
We're going to be looking for other pieces of land we can buy and we would love to hear from anyone who knows of local plots coming onto the market. We hope that donors will be patient and allow us to transfer funds to another purchase, but we completely understand if donations were made specifically for this 19 acres. If so, please email me via dorian.wainwright@avonneedstrees.org.uk and we will make sure money is returned.
On behalf of everyone involved with ANT I want to say thank you for all your support and we hope you'll continue to back us as we continue in our mission to create new, permanent woodland across our catchment area.
Many thanks
Dorian Wainwright
Avon Needs Trees
Back in October your donation helped us raise over £7000 to get our campaign to buy 19 acres at Seend off the ground. Since then we've worked incredibly hard to raise the rest of the money and I'm proud to say our fundraising over the past four months has been extremely successful.
Unfortunately, a routine archaeological survey of the land has found evidence of potentially significant "magnetic anomalies" on the site we were planning to buy. These could indicate buried heritage - possibly Roman or Medieval - and if we bought the land now we would have to pay a minimum of £25,000 for investigatory archaeological work to find out more. If that returned even more results we would open up the charity to potentially enormous obligations. The only alternative would be to limit our planting to two hectares of trees - less than a quarter of what we had planned - which represents poor value for our funders and supporters. As such, having consulted with a very wide range of experts and professionals in the field, the trustees have made the painful decision not to go ahead with the purchase.
We're going to be looking for other pieces of land we can buy and we would love to hear from anyone who knows of local plots coming onto the market. We hope that donors will be patient and allow us to transfer funds to another purchase, but we completely understand if donations were made specifically for this 19 acres. If so, please email me via dorian.wainwright@avonneedstrees.org.uk and we will make sure money is returned.
On behalf of everyone involved with ANT I want to say thank you for all your support and we hope you'll continue to back us as we continue in our mission to create new, permanent woodland across our catchment area.
Many thanks
Dorian Wainwright
Avon Needs Trees
Press Release 26th November 2020
Volunteers needed to work on new local orchard - see below
Volunteers needed to work on new local orchard - see below
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Note: planting dates delayed
We are now looking for volunteers from tier 2 areas for both Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th of December Contact them to find out if you can join the team... | ||
Links to news articles and other sources on what
Avon Needs Trees is doing...
Why not contribute to the SEEND latest purchase project at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/avonneedstrees
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2020/10/19
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A collaborative Zoom meeting organised by both the Friends of the Marden Valley, and Avon Needs Trees on the history of the Marden Valley; the River, the Canal, and the Railway Line.
The three speakers are Alan Lank, from the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust, Sue Boddington, the Curator of Calne Heritage Centre and Tim Havenith, historian and author of an upcoming book on the Marden Valley. Each talk with take around 20 minutes, with Q and As after if possible.
Topic: History of the Marden Valley; the River, the Canal, and the Railway Line
Time: Oct 29, 2020 18:00 London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83113529639?pwd=UDQvZ3MyTE9uUTVxUGNtY1RHZkFIdz09
Meeting ID: 831 1352 9639
Passcode: 143511
ANT Site Tours
ANT are offering site tours of their land at Hazeland on Sunday November 1st. Attendees should allow 1.5 - 2 hours and each tour will be in a group of no more than six, staggered throughout the day. Anyone who would like to attend should email Dorian, the ANT administrator, on dorian.wainwright@avonneedstrees.org.uk indicating whether they would like a morning or afternoon visit. They will allocate times as far in advance as possible.
More Good News from ANT - Seend land purchase Crowd funding gathering pace - do read here and share
2020/10/05 Update on Launch, news and lots more information
https://mailchi.mp/d65c088b2989/more-biodiversity-news-fundraisers-and-pub-quizzes-4028697?e=cd823e0c49
https://mailchi.mp/d65c088b2989/more-biodiversity-news-fundraisers-and-pub-quizzes-4028697?e=cd823e0c49
2020/09/14: The purchase of Hazeland near Calne was completed in August 2020 and launched this month. Avon Needs Trees are now raising the funds for another 19 acres at Seend, near Melksham. ANT sees this as a long-term project, 20 years minimum, buying land to replant and rewild, to create new permanent woodland.
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2020/09/13 Avon Needs Trees PRESS RELEASE 13th September 2020 New Woodland for Calne (Hazeland official launch)
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2020/09/13 Radio Wiltshire Podcast 13th Sept 2020 New Woodland for Calne (Hazeland official launch day interview)
https://we.tl/t-m8DzFS6dmg
https://we.tl/t-m8DzFS6dmg
2020/09/12 Gazette & Herald 12th September 2020 New Woodland for Calne (Hazeland)
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/18716638.new-woodland-calne-avon-needs-trees
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/18716638.new-woodland-calne-avon-needs-trees
2020/09/12 Wiltshire Times 12th September 2020 New Woodland for Calne (Hazeland)
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/18716639.new-woodland-calne-avon-needs-trees/
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/18716639.new-woodland-calne-avon-needs-trees/
A few images of biodiversity taken at Hazeland Calne
