Tag: Groundwork

Great work by The Rosary and Adderley Primary- despite the cold!

Pupils from The Rosary RC Primary and Adderley Primary joined us in Adderley park today to plant 10 large standard trees and 300 smaller saplings.

The cold weather did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm and, even though their numbers were small, they worked hard to help us get most of the 300+ trees in the ground ! Adderley pupils were continuing a planting that they actually started this time last year but everyone agreed that the additional help from The Rosary was very welcome. It seemed to fit well with their ‘mindfulness’ week.

Adderley Park is one of the oldest in the City and a welcome green space in a mainly industrial area. It is really encouraging to know that we have many more pairs of eyes keeping watch over these new young trees and we hope that the new ‘woodland’ area will mature to mask some of the noise and pollution from the adjacent roads.

Our thanks to Adderley staff for their tweets!! Really good work by everyone on site ! Lots more photographs are available via this link. 

Lord Mayor joins Archway students at Kingston Hill Park.

Students from Archway Academy had two good assistants today as they planted 10 new trees in Kingstone Hill Park in Bordesley. The Lord Mayor and her Consort not only came along to work alongside the students to backfill planting holes, but they also stayed to offer support as our volunteer planters tried their hand at actually digging the tree pits!   They discovered that this can be exceptionally hard, and we are indebted to BCC Woodland Team, who usually undertake all our groundwork preparation. More of their efforts appear in our gallery via this link.

This planting is the first of several in a 3 year project BTFL is undertaking as part of their work with HS2 and Groundwork. Our project has received a grant from HS2’s Community Environment Fund (CEF). The CEF fund has been created by HS2 to add benefit to communities along the route that are demonstrably disrupted by the construction of Phase One of HS2 from London to West Midlands.