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Trees for Cities @TreesforCities
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Trees for Cities@TreesforCities
10 Jan 2025
Love trees? 💚 Follow us @treesforcities on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn & WeAre8 for fun, inspiring and educational green content all about urban trees and the benefits they bring! 🌳🌳🌳
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Can birds thrive well in cities? Yes! 🏡 Urban green spaces can provide good nesting habitats for birds due to reduced danger from predators and from having favourable homes for shrub nesters like sparrows and robins 🐦
Myth: Birds living in urban spaces are more sickly Fact: Birds in green urban areas can be just as healthy as their rural counterparts

ALT Myth: Birds living in urban spaces are more sickly Fact: Birds in green urban areas can be just as healthy as their rural counterparts

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How do trees help birds thrive? 🐦 Birds rely on trees to find food and shelter for themselves and their young. 🌳 Planting and maintaining a healthy abundance of trees is crucial for sustaining vibrant and thriving bird populations.
A Goldcrest bird sitting on a plant stem with leaves.

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🎆 New year means new resolutions so… what’s your wish for trees in 2025? 🌳 Trees provide us with endless benefits all year round. Let’s work together to keep planting and protecting trees now and in the future!
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Happy New Year 💚 Let’s plant more trees together 🌱
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🔊 Catch our CEO Kate Sheldon on Radio @bbc5live for a fantastic phone-in, celebrating urban trees and featuring people's treasured tree stories. 🌳 Kate discusses how Trees for Cities gets people to care about trees and more, from 1 hour 45 mins in: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00269f… Listen to the whole show for excellent insights from @QasaAlom, Tony Kirkham and Vicky Allan on the healing nature of trees, the challenges they face, and some of the nation's favourites.

BBC Radio 5 Live - Nicky Campbell, Qasa Alom sits in

Qasa Alom sits in, taking your calls on the day's talking points.

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🎄 Looking for a fun story to tell at Christmas dinner? Here's one for you about mistletoe! Did you know that mistletoe is actually a parasitic plant that can often spell bad news for its host tree? 👉 Find out more: treesforcities.org/stories/g…
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We're honoured to have been recognised and invited to the Mercy4Mankind Awards Reception, hosted by @UKMuslimYouth at the House of Commons. 💚 We were thrilled to receive a Recognition Award for 'Outstanding Services to Community' - thank you! treesforcities.org/stories/r…
Trees for Cities receive a Recognition Award at the Mercy4Mankind Awards Reception 2024

ALT Trees for Cities receive a Recognition Award at the Mercy4Mankind Awards Reception 2024

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We were thrilled to speak on Rare Earth about our Trees in School project at @ElthorneHighSch 🌳 🏫 Students from the school's eco-team had the opportunity to share their experiences greening their school! Hear what they had to say from 37:56 – 44:23 below 👇
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A mildly festive celebration of the trees we live with all year round - with @paulpowlesland @TreeCouncil @TreesforCities bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002622…
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Today, we had an incredible opportunity to speak on @BBCRadio4's Rare Earth! The programme was about celebrating and preserving urban trees, where we were featured talking about our Trees in School project at @ElthorneHighSch. Listen from 37:56 – 44:23: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00262…

Rare Earth - Christmas Trees - BBC Sounds

Helen Czerski and Tom Heap celebrate the urban trees of Britain.

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We'll be speaking shortly live on Rare Earth! 🎄Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:b…

Trees for Cities@TreesforCities
20 Dec 2024
We're going to be live on @BBCRadio4's Rare Earth feature at 12pm TODAY! 🌳The programme will be about urban trees where you'll hear from our Senior Engagement Manager, Louise as well as staff and students from @ElthorneHighSch's incredible eco-team. Don't miss out ‼️
Trees for Cities Senior Engagement Manager with a staff member and two students from Elthorne Park High School's eco-team in front of a standard tree.

ALT Trees for Cities Senior Engagement Manager with a staff member and two students from Elthorne Park High School's eco-team in front of a standard tree.
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We're going to be live on @BBCRadio4's Rare Earth feature at 12pm TODAY! 🌳The programme will be about urban trees where you'll hear from our Senior Engagement Manager, Louise as well as staff and students from @ElthorneHighSch's incredible eco-team. Don't miss out ‼️
Trees for Cities Senior Engagement Manager with a staff member and two students from Elthorne Park High School's eco-team in front of a standard tree.

ALT Trees for Cities Senior Engagement Manager with a staff member and two students from Elthorne Park High School's eco-team in front of a standard tree.
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From rounding off our 30th anniversary celebrations with a mass community planting day 🌳 to our biggest fundraising campaign to date - we've had a busy few weeks! Find out what we got up to: treesforcities.org/stories/n… (photos from our planting day at Ashburton Playing Fields 😉)
Two Trees for Cities volunteers pose with a photo prop at a planting event

ALT Two Trees for Cities volunteers pose with a photo prop at a planting event

A group of Trees for Cities volunteers (and a dog) pose with their arms in their air at a planting event

ALT A group of Trees for Cities volunteers (and a dog) pose with their arms in their air at a planting event

Trees for Cities volunteers pose with the Roaming Trees at a planting event

ALT Trees for Cities volunteers pose with the Roaming Trees at a planting event

People looking at a visual timeline of Trees for Cities history at a planting event (with a branded flag on the left)

ALT People looking at a visual timeline of Trees for Cities history at a planting event (with a branded flag on the left)
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🌳 This planting season, we have been contributing towards the London Tree Ring, a vision for driving the creation of more woodland around our capital. Many thanks to our partners @BupaUK who support this project, alongside @RedbridgeLive and @DoMoreRed. youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0Lwr_R…

Contributing towards the London Tree Ring at Hainault Recreation...

This 2024-25 tree planting season, Trees for Cities has been contri...

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🌱Hainault Recreation Ground was identified as a key planting opportunity to contribute towards the London Tree Ring. We planted over 2500 tree whips on November 16th, adding to the trees we planted in the same area over five years ago! Find out more: treesforcities.org/stories/l…

London Tree Ring: Connecting Woodland and People | Trees for Cities

Trees for Cities is a UK charity building a national movement for urban trees and tree equity. Since 1993, we’ve engaged hundreds of thousands of people, planting over 2 million trees where they are...

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Holly (Ilex Aquifolium) represents an ancient symbol of hope in the cold, dark days of winter, but there's so much more to it than meets the eye... treesforcities.org/stories/i… It's the UK's most common evergreen and is easily identified by its spiky leaves and bright red berries!
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We’re excited to be part of @Bupa's new documentary ‘Healthy Cities’, which looks at positive climate action on a global scale. 🍃Learn about our Planting Healthy Air projects with BUPA: treesforcities.org/stories/b… Watch the film below (spot us from 26:19): youtube.com/watch?v=7vrQqAEJ…

New Bupa Documentary Stars our Planting Healthy Air Project | Trees for Cities

Trees for Cities is a UK charity building a national movement for urban trees and tree equity. Since 1993, we’ve engaged hundreds of thousands of people, planting over 2 million trees where they are...

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