Recycle Your Christmas Tree and Help Longfield Hospice
Recycle Your Christmas Tree and Help Longfield Hospice – Booking Open Now
Pic caption: Volunteer Pete Barker-Mills helping unload a van last year
Pic caption: Volunteers including Chloe Turner from Stroud District Council helping unload trees at Fromebridge Mill last year
Now is the chance to sign up to dispose of your Christmas Tree in the most eco-friendly way possible and raise money for Longfield Community Hospice.
In return for a voluntary donation, Longfield Hospice’s team of volunteers will collect your trees from your home at the end of the festive season and take them to be chipped for chippings to be reused locally, making this the most eco-friendly way to dispose of your tree.
Hoping to collect and recycle more trees than ever this year, Longfield in partnership with Just Helping, is aiming to raise more than £85,000, which could help fund over 1,000 hours of Hospice at Home care, or support free wellbeing, bereavement and counselling services for those in Gloucestershire. This is a huge operation for Longfield and last year an army of 180 volunteers collected more than 4000 trees over four days from households throughout Gloucestershire.
The scheme is endorsed by Stroud District Council and Gloucester City Council (working with Ubico) is also supporting the scheme.
To arrange collection of your tree, simply visit www.just-helping.org.uk/register-tree and enter your postcode, where you can make a voluntary donation to your local community hospice. Bookings can be made from 14 November until 6th January 2025
After costs, money raised helps to fund the hospice’s vital work supporting patients, families and carers across Gloucestershire.
The fundraising team are also looking for volunteers, vans to collect Christmas trees, and tree chippers from Saturday 10th to Tuesday 13 January 2025. To volunteer either with your time or if you have a van or chipper, then please contact the team on 01483 886868 or email christmas.trees@longfield.org.uk.
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