We celebrated National Tree Week on November 30 with a fantastic day of tree planting at Wootton Pocket Park as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy. The project, a collaboration between SOST, Wootton Parish Council, Northampton Rotary and urban tree experts Woodland Dwelling, saw 28 New Horizon Elms planted along the footpath in the park by school children from Caroline Chisholm School and a raft of volunteers. This type of Elm (which is completely resistant to Dutch Elm disease) is home to the endangered White-letter Hairstreak butterfly that’s native to the UK. It’s hoped the avenue will provid ..read more

We’re embarking on one of our most exciting urban greening projects to date – working with Briar Hill Primary School to bring a sustainable school garden and tree planting to its playground. With the support of school staff and pupils, we’ll be designing a climate-change garden at the entrance to the Thorn Hill school this summer, with a tree planting around the playground in winter 2023/24. The school’s climate-change garden will aim to highlight how even schools with dry and exposed locations, limited space and access to water can still provide important green space for pupils. Sustainable s ..read more

For the fourth winter in a row, we’ll join Northampton schools, volunteers, and tree lovers to plant trees for National Tree Week (Nov 26-Dec 4). Alongside our urban forester friends at Woodland Dwelling, we’ll be giving new homes to 48 trees in two tree plantings in Wootton and East Hunsbury over the next few days. Bringing our total tree planting in Northampton to 470 over six years! We’re supporting East Hunsbury Parish Council to create an urban orchard near Grangewood Park in East Hunsbury on Tuesday, November 29th. We’ll be planting 20 fruit trees with children from three Northampton sch ..read more

We’re delighted to be part of Northamptonshire ACRE’s Grow Green Together Conference in September. The Action with Communities in Rural England charity and Climate Action-West Northamptonshire (CA-WN) is calling on community groups, parish and town councils, village halls and Northamptonshire businesses to come together to make their community a greener place at a special conference on Monday, September 12th. Sustainable future The environmental symposium is being held at the Hunsbury Hill centre, Harksome Hill – where we helped create a heritage orchard last year. Between 10am and 4pm, the co ..read more

We’re delighted to be part of Northamptonshire ACRE’s Grow Green Together Conference in September. The Action with Communities in Rural England charity and Climate Action-West Northamptonshire (CA-WN) is calling on community groups, parish and town councils, village halls and Northamptonshire businesses to come together to make their community a greener place at a special conference on Monday, September 12th. Sustainable future The environmental symposium is being held at the Hunsbury Hill centre, Harksome Hill – where we helped create a heritage orchard last year. Between 10am and 4pm, the co ..read more

We’re thrilled to welcome a fantastic new volunteer to the Save Our Street Trees (SOST) committee. Danielle Bird will be joining SOST as a volunteer Campaign Manager from March 2022. She’ll support our work across our planting projects and campaigns. She will also become the new point of contact for our growing Tree Guardian network. And she may be penning a few blogs of her own in the process! Danielle brings bags of environmental science experience and a passion for nature and the environment. Working as the University of Northampton’s Energy Officer, she was responsible for organising the U ..read more

It was a privilege to help Delapre Primary School plant an outdoor classroom and forest school in December 2021. But even more lovely to hear what they thought about our support for their tree-planting project! Delapre Primary Deputy Headteacher Stephen Casey told us: “Many of our Year 6 children have said they would like to come back ‘once a year forever’ so they can watch our forest grow. We feel this is a true indication of the magic that this initiative has brought to the lives of our children.” He added: “From the beginning of the partnership, Save Our Street Trees’ founder Ali ..read more

We were thrilled to help future-proof the ancient tree canopy at St Giles churchyard in March with the addition of six new trees. St Giles Community group and SOST partnered together with The Queen’s Green Canopy lead in Northamptonshire, Paul Parsons, and Northampton Rotary Club for the special planting. The project was part of the #WildGiles project to green the St Giles Terrace churchyard, the Queen’s Green Canopy scheme and Northampton Rotary’s ‘100 Trees for Northampton’. Celebrating the planting with (left to right): St Giles curate Ali Wagner, SOST’s Alice Whitehead, St Giles Community ..read more

For the fourth winter in a row, we’ll join Northampton schools, volunteers, and tree lovers to plant trees for National Tree Week (Nov 26-Dec 4). Alongside our urban forester friends at Woodland Dwelling, we’ll be giving new homes to 48 trees in two tree plantings in Wootton and East Hunsbury over the next few days. Bringing our total tree planting in Northampton to 470 over six years! We’re supporting East Hunsbury Parish Council to create an urban orchard near Grangewood Park in East Hunsbury on Tuesday, November 29th. We’ll be planting 20 fruit trees with children from three Northampton sch ..read more

We’re incredibly proud to have planted 421 trees in Northampton this year as part of three major urban tree projects. Following on from our street tree planting in Far Cotton in February, we’ve helped create an heritage orchard at Northamptonshire Acre and forest school at Delapre Primary School. Moulton College students worked hard to help establish the heritage orchard Students from Moulton College and Hunsbury Park Primary helped Save Our Street Trees founder Alice and Russell Horsey from Woodland Dwelling to get the trees established. The varieties planted at the Hunsbury Hill Centre site ..read more