Thank you for coming to our Urban Tree Festival 2025 event, The Zephaniah Forest Tree Walk! Hosted by Charley as her final event with us at Birmingham TreePeople for the Urban Tree Festival 2025, we celebrated urban trees by walking through the legacy, magic, and species of the forest dedicated to Benjamin Zephaniah in Burbury […]
Category: Treevents
Washwood Heath Academy Planting
As part of our community co-produced planting programme in Alum Rock, we were delighted to form a partnership with The Washwood Heath Academy Sixth Form working with them to plant up new street trees in Alum Rock and also on their school grounds. We were initially connected to Miss Khan, head of sixth form, getting […]
GOAL Planting
A beautiful day was had on 27th March supporting Go-Woman! Alliance (GOAL) and Count Me In Forum in planting a Ginkgo Tree, Sweet Gum Tree, and Peanut Tree on Phillimore Road, Alum Rock. A huge thanks to Katy and Lawrence, as well as Birmingham City Council’s Woodland Team, for their incredible support and putting this […]
Sparkbrook Trees
Last Wednesday 19th March, a keen group of Sparkbrook residents, helped by Councillor Izzy Knowles, planted 5 trees supplied by Birmingham TreePeople to improve their local environment. A Magnolia Galaxy went in next to the bus-stop, and a Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glypto ’Goldeush’) was given a more generous planting location in which to flourish and […]
Alum Rock Planting
We had a beautiful tree planting celebration event in Alum Rock, Thursday 27th March, the result of a partnership between Birmingham TreePeople and St John’s House, who we first met with over a year ago to explore establishing new trees in the area. Working with Women of Worth, who we’ve gotten to know over the […]
The Final Zephaniah Forest Planting
The Zephaniah Forest has been completed in a final planting session. In Burbury Park, Newtown, there are now 65 new trees signifying each year of a life well-lived and respected, dedicated to Benjamin Zephaniah. In a final celebratory planting session, the legacy forest dedicated to Benjamin was completed by returning community members and volunteers from […]
Refugee & Migrant Centre Zephaniah Tree Planting
We were joined by friends from the Refugee and Migrant Centre, on 6th February 2025, to help plant nine more trees in The Zephaniah Forest. Together we spent the morning digging holes and carefully unwrapping the trees, ready for their new home in Burbury Park. Millicent Springer, sister of Benjamin and member of the Benjamin […]
Go Green Week with BCU
We teamed up with Birmingham City University students for Go Green Week on Friday 30th January. The keen squad joined Matt and Charley – with support from Birmingham City Council Woodlands Team’s Leon and Nick – to fulfill some of our targets towards the Urban Forest Masterplan for Birmingham. We had a wonderful few hours […]
Zephaniah Forest Tree Planting
We’ve been planting in The Zephaniah Forest with Benjamin Zephaniah Family Legacy Group and the community again! On 23rd January we planted more trees with Millicent, Benjamin’s sister, as well as returning volunteer Ebony, and several other amazing local people in Burbury Park for The Zephaniah Forest! Millicent bought a marker to write her family’s […]
Mossy Bank Treemembrance
The Mossy Bank Treemembrance Planting on 16th January saw Angela Poultney remembering her parents, Patricia Ann and John Bryan Bower, with the ceremonial planting of a Copper Beech. The Friends of Mossy Bank’s Chair was present, Shiela, Keatley, who was a wonderful help throughout. The grandchildren blessed the tree by planting bulbs at the base, […]
Handsworth Treemembrance
On 9th January 2025 in Handsworth Park, our first tree planting of the year took place, which was a wonderful commemorative occasion for the Treemembrance Programme. We were terrifically lucky with the weather; it was sunny and bright all day whilst planting in memory of Natasha Wade, who sadly passed away last February. The day […]
Minworth Orchard
A new orchard was planted last weekend in Minworth, alongside Minworth Action Projects and Friends of Stephens Pond & Berryfields Orchard. The crisp January morning consisted of the community coming together to plant 22 new fruit trees, opposite The Boat Inn on Old Kingsbury Road, for everyone to care for and enjoy for the foreseeable […]
Family Legacy Tree Planting
The time finally came for David Springer to plant a tree in memory of his brother, Benjamin Zephaniah, with his family from the Benjamin Zephaniah Family Legacy Group. David originally contacted us from the Family Legacy Group wanting to plant a tree in memory of Benjamin. We decided it wasn’t enough, and thus The Zephaniah […]
Enchanted Orchard Tree Planting
Celebrating Benjamin Zephaniah and his love of fruit trees! 19th December we planted The Zephaniah Forest’s Orchard in Burbury Park. The Zephaniah Forest saw a momentous planting day take place on 19th December, where we teamed up with not only the Benjamin Zephaniah Family Legacy Group, but also Burbury Park Community Forum, Birmingham Empowerment Forum, […]
Daisy Farm Park Tree Planting
We had the pleasure of planting trees with pupils from Highters Heath Community School once again this year (they are becoming quite the enthusiastic tree-planting squad), after we had arranged with the Friends of Daisy Farm Park to have six new elms planted, replacing the old lost street colonnade. Steve (President of FDFP) and Mac […]