News

Grants of £5000 or £10000 are available from the Government’s Green Homes Grant Scheme.  The government will provide a voucher worth up to £5,000 or £10,000 to help cover the cost of making energy efficient improvements to your home.  Apply now  for work to be completed 31 March 2021  https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-the-green-homes-grant-scheme.

CHCP Green Health Grants  The City Health Care Partnership Foundation  is making  grants available for projects that tackle green issues as well as the health and wellbeing of adults, children and young people. Deadline 1st November 2020.  https://www.chcpcic.org.uk/chcp-services/chcp-foundation/pages/green-health-grants  

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TREES

One Hull of a Forest is a project whose main aim is to plant trees, involving schools and businesses and the general public, to help increase the woodland cover in Hull and the East Riding.The project is linked to the HEYwoods strategy group, with a target to plant 1.2 million trees over the coming years, as part of the Northern Forest Initiative. It hopes to put Hull on the map as one of the greenest cities in the north of England. The project is managed by the ‘Plant a Tree Today’ Foundation (PATT Foundation) and the following link provides more info. They are looking for involvement in lots of ways and the link has a contact form where you can leave your details to find out more.

https://pattfoundation.org/484/one-hull-of-a-forest/

The Woodland Trust is offering free trees to schools and communities. Apply now and the trees will be delivered in March 2021

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/free-trees/

Treesisters  is a grassroots network of women planting over two million trees a year in the tropics. These are women committed to the restoration of our forests and the rebalancing of humanity’s relationship with the natural world, and you can join them.

https://www.treesisters.org/

Friends of the Earth Trees Campaign  calls for the tree cover in the UK to be doubled by 2045 as one of the best solutions to protect the environment and achieve net zero emissions. To sign the petition and read more:

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/trees

Tree Aid is a UK Charity which works with communities in Africa to ensure they have the resources, training and support to grow and restore trees on their land.

Tree Aid

Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees. It uses the advertising revenue from your searches to plant trees where they are needed most.

https://www.ecosia.org

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Transition & Permaculture Hull is part of the Transition Network

Transition & Permaculture Hull has a copies of Transition Network Publications which can be borrowed on request

  • 21 Stories of Transition
  • The Transition Handbook
  • The Transition Companion
  • The Power of Just Doing Stuff
  • In Transition 1.0 DVD: from oil dependence to local resilience
  • In Transition 2.0 DVD: a story of resilience and hope
  • Voices of Transition DVD : community-led food production

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Sites suggested by Transition & Permaculture Hull members:

page updated June 2020