Tag: volunteering

Cheshire Tree Alliance Conference 2025

Deanne (Dee) Brettle, Chair, and Charlotte (Charley) McDermott, Communications, represented Birmingham TreePeople as Cheshire Tree Alliance’s 2025 Conference Keynote Speakers last weekend. Sunday 6th April, BTP were invited to give a presentation at Sandbach Town Hall, hosted by Cheshire Tree Alliance and Sandbach Town Council, Birmingham TreePeople: Zero to Hero, telling the story of how […]

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 […]

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 […]

BCU Volunteer Network Tree Planting

On 3rd December, Birmingham City University’s (BCU) Volunteer Network students joined us to celebrate one of their Honorary Doctorates, Benjamin Zephaniah, by planting several of The Zephaniah Forest’s trees with us in Burbury Park. Benjamin Zephaniah was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from BCU, so it was wonderful to plant trees with the student volunteer network. […]

Pests and Diseases Training

Free monthly urban forest volunteer training covered pests and diseases this month, in Handsworth Park with Tonia Clark. This wonderful morning session in the park, Saturday 16th November, saw the volunteers learning the risks to trees that come with illness and creepy crawlies, just like us humans. Fungi is ever-present, but what is that pattern […]

Vandalism in Gravelly Hill

We hate to be the bearers of bad news, but we have found some rather malicious vandalism during our street tree survey in Gravelly Hill, on 28th August. Several of our newly planted trees have been intentionally attacked. Three of this year’s plantings have been sawn off at the base. They’re planted adjacent to each […]

Thank You!

Birmingham TreePeople would like to kindly thank Mark Johnston for sending us a complimentary copy of his new autobiography – Planting ideas in the urban forest – with such a wonderful note left for us on the inside. 🌿 Mark Johnston recently spoke alongside The Woodland Trust, Katy Hawkins, and Wild in the City for […]

National Lottery Community Funding

We are elated to share that we’ve received #NationalLottery funding from The National Lottery Community Fund for our Trees for Health project! This means that our charity can continue with its employees, big-dreaming projects, and expand into a new era. Thank you to National Lottery players for helping #MakeAmazingHappen.

Street Trees Nechells

A record-worthy effort by the Street Tree surveyors yesterday, Saturday 29th June in Nechells, with a total of 61 trees surveyed! Thank you to Nina, Julianne, Mario, Tanim, Charley, Alex, Jeevan, Lawrence, and Kathy for wonderful morning and afternoon sessions tree surveying! LOTS of pruning, as well as stake and tie removals; the most we’ve […]