Are you doing your bit for National Tree Week, which started on Saturday. Since the first National Tree Week in 1975 it has been the UK’s largest tree celebration annually launching the start of the winter tree planting season.
National Tree Week is a great chance for communities to do something positive for their local treescape. Each year, The Tree Council’s member organisations such as voluntary bodies and local authorities, up to 200 schools and community groups, our 8,000 Tree Wardens and many others, support the initiative by setting up fun, worthwhile and accessible events, inspiring upward of a quarter of a million people to get their hands dirty and together plant around a million trees.
Do you want to be part of this great collective achievement?
All events can be found on our Near You map. To find out about the kind of activities which took place in your area last year, for inspiration, you can look at past events. If you’re interested in organising your own event, read further to get some useful tips on how to organise successful tree planting activities and don’t forget to list your event on our website, so that other people can come and join you!
National Tree Week culminates with Tree Dressing Day on 3rd December. This year, free resource packs designed by Common Ground are available containing everything you need to hold a ‘re-leaf a winter tree’ activity at the same time as gathering people’s thoughts on why trees matter to help inform the Tree Charter. To order you pack, email the Tree Charter with your name, address and details of your planned event.
Over 800 children and young people from 29 schools in Nottingham City have collaborated on a charity song, organised by Nottingham Music Service, which is being released today! The launch will be marked by five Nottingham city school choir performances at four separate venues in the city, while a mass singing took place simultaneously at 9:30am in many of the schools involved this morning.
The idea for the song came from a teacher last December. It took over eight months of hard work and coordination to write, compose and record it. Over 300 young people helped to write, design and compose the song, titled If Every Child Could, while 500 singers and 50 instrumentalists were involved in its recording. Students sent in handwritten notes, and in some cases videos, of their lyrics, that were then compiled by Nottingham Music Service, a charity that works to provide music opportunities in and out of school to young people in Nottingham.
As part of the launcg there will be free performances for the public on 24th November. These will take place at 11:00 and 11:30am at the Nottingham Train Station; at 1:00 and 1:30pm at Intu Victoria Centre, and at 2:00pm in the Market Square. Plus you can stick around and see the Christmas lights switch on at 6:30pm!
You can support Nottingham Music Hub and the amazing work they do the city’s schools by downloading the song from iTunes, Google Play or Amazon, or buying the CDs available at the NMS Christmas concerts. All proceeds go towards funding life-changing music projects for Nottingham’s children and young people! You can also support Nottingham Music Service on social media: on Twitter and Facebook.
Five people are killed every single day by something we already know how to cure – dangerous driving. Our roads are dangerous places, where hundreds of deaths and serious injuries take place every week. But by adults changing their driving behaviour, we can help to make our villages, towns and cities safer places to be. Every action that we take, as a driver or as a passenger, can change the outcome of a journey and the future of a family.That’s why for this year’s Road Safety Week the focus has been put on the six elements of the Brake Pledge: Slow, Sober, Secure, Silent, Sharp and Sustainable.
This week in school you can share this Brake’s Pledge and talk about ways that you can support adults in being safer – you can take the Pledge too, promising to help drivers stick to the six Pledge points. It’s also a good time for you to look at how you can be safer as a pedestrian when you’re walking around Nottingham and learn more about the Green Cross Code, especially as you can use this to take part in the Nottingham Road Safety Quiz! So take action, make a difference, and Pledge to help adults do six simple things to save lives this Road Safety Week.
