Children from Kent primary schools have helped volunteers and Kent County Council (KCC) to lay roots in a bid to boost tree numbers. Planting started in December at St John’s Church of England Primary School, Canterbury and Greenfields Community Primary School, Maidstone, with 1,900 whips planted between them. Funding for the native saplings was provided…
Kent County Council (KCC) is inviting applications for free trees to help reach its ambitious target of an additional 1.5 million trees to be planted in the county. The council launched a series of pilots as part of the Trees Outside Woodland programme which is developing innovative and sustainable new ways to increase tree cover…
KCC’s Country Park at Lullingstone has been chosen as part of a nationwide network of ancient woodlands to be dedicated to The Queen in celebration of her Platinum Jubilee. The Queen’s Green Canopy consists of 70 ancient woodlands and 70 ancient trees across the UK which will form part of the Ancient Canopy to celebrate…
Work to establish a Jubilee Wood at a primary school has started as part of Kent County Council’s (KCC) involvement in the Queen’s Green Canopy project. On Tuesday, 29th March, councillors joined staff, pupils and KCC’s Chairman, Lesley Game, at Sandwich Junior School to begin planting the trees. The wood has been designed to represent…
Kent County Council (KCC) is asking for views on Plan Tree, a new strategy to establish more trees in the county. Plan Tree includes establishing at least 30,000 trees on KCC’s own land representing one tree for every person in our workforce. In addition council members will be able to allocate 350 trees each within…
Kent residents are being urged to maintain awareness of an imported disease that can cause long-lasting and even fatal damage to Ash trees. Ash Dieback has the potential to infect Ash trees, including the half a million growing on private land in the county and some 20,000 on Kent County Council (KCC) maintained land. The…
As COP26, the climate-change summit in Glasgow, nears its conclusion, a new tree-planting initiative in Kent has been announced. Kent County Council, in partnership with Ashford and Swale Borough Councils, has been awarded £275,129 from the Local Authority Treescape Fund which will lead to the planting of more than 41,000 trees and saplings across those…
A tree with royal connections has been planted in the grounds of a Kent school after pupils and staff were chosen to help celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Parkside Community Primary School in Canterbury was one of only 70 primary schools in the United Kingdom selected to receive a special Queen’s Green Canopy…
A Kent school has been chosen to ‘plant a tree for the jubilee’ to help Her Majesty The Queen celebrate 70 years on the throne. Parkside Community Primary School in Canterbury is one of only 70 schools in the United Kingdom selected to take part in the Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC), a unique tree planting…
Kent County Council has been awarded £500,000 to carry on an innovative new study on tree planting which could change the way the UK plants trees. The Trees Outside Woodlands project, led by Defra, Natural England, and the Tree Council, is a £2.52 million investment over the next two and a half years. The study…
Kent County Council has become the first local authority in the UK to sign up to a free scheme meaning when documents are printed, a tree is planted. Working in partnership with our printing supplier, Xerox, we have gained this added benefit via their agreement with PrintReleaf to help reduce the loss of forests globally.…