Transition Town has been offered a grant of £500 by The Tree Council via their ‘Branching Out’ programme.
This has been matched by a similar grant from Dorchester Town Council.
With these two grants, plus the 420 trees which the Woodland Trust will be giving them in November, Transition Town will have 1200+ young trees to plant around the town before the end of 2020. This, added to the 900+ trees planted by Transition Town volunteers earlier this year, will bring the total number of trees planted in 2020 to over 2000!
Transition Town hope to get a good number of the trees planted during National Tree Week by working alongside a number of community groups, schools and colleges. The following have already offered their help:
• Dorchester Youth and Community Centre
• Dorchester Beavers
• Damers First School
• The Thomas Hardye School
• Kingston Maurward College
• Weymouth College
There is still plenty of planting time available in National Tree Week if other community groups or schools would like to get involved – as they say, many hands make light work! They would love to hear from any other group that might want to help plant the trees.
Transition Town are currently working with Dorchester Town Council and the Duchy of Cornwall to finalise where the trees will be planted this winter.
