This is Tilly from Sandridge, the photo was taken the day before her second operation to remove a brain tumour, just 6 months ago. Yet, on 20th March, she's going to do a parachute jump to raise money for the charity Brain Tumour UK.
The Woodland Trust plans to plant 600,000 trees at Heartwood Forest over the next few years and hopes to involve lots of people and corporate partners at every stage. Details of next planting event here (PDF).
The creation of Heartwood Forest is underway
After many months of planning and hard work the growing phase started and the whole community celebrated by planting trees in November 2009.
Lady Verulam, the patron of the project was there to say and few words about how special this project is and plant one of the very first trees, as well as the Woodland Trust’s chief executive, Sue Holden and three children who have taken part in the countrywide Tree For All tree planting project.
Everyone joined in and had a go at planting trees. It was a fantastic day, the weather was kind and nearly 5,000 trees were planted. If you missed out on this event then why not come along to one of the next events as detailed above.
Forest Facts, the Sandridge Forest will be:
Bigger than Whipsnade Zoo (600 acres)
Bigger than Sherwood Forest Country Park (450 acres)
Bigger than Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens combined (625 acres)
Twice the size of Regents Park (410 acres)
Everyone joined in and had a go at planting trees. It was a fantastic day, the weather was kind and nearly 5,000 trees were planted. If you missed out on this event then why not come along to one of the next events as detailed above.