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Friends of Blakers Park raised £2,145 from 65 supporters
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Iʼve raised £2,145 to we aim to plant 50 new trees by 2025!
- Brighton, UK
- Funded on Friday, 1st May 2020
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We're planting new trees to help the existing trees to better withstand climate change and help increase the biodiversity in the park, encouraging more wildlife as well as more seasonal interest.
TREES are the lungs of our community giving us untold environmental, health and wildlife benefits. Climate change and the natural ageing of the trees, means it is vital more than ever that we plant more trees as well as maintain their number and diversity.
In area the park is about 1.75 hectares or 4.3 acres and currently (2019) has 158 trees of around 80 different species. There is a large bank of very mature and old trees including rare Elm trees that form an important part of Brighton’s National Collection of surviving Elms.
Our Park is really important because it helps mitigate climate change. The trees regulate ambient temperatures (urban heat island effect), filter pollutants and dust, sequester (suck up) carbon, attenuate storm-water, mitigate flooding and preserves biodiversity.
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- 5 years ago
Friends of Blakers Park
5 years agoThank you - our new trees are all looking wonderful and giving great solace to those lucky to be able to walk in the park. We have enough funds for next winter's planting.
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- 5 years ago
Friends of Blakers Park
5 years agoThank you! We have now planted thirteen trees since December - that's ALL of our first order and TEN trees ahead of our target for this winter! They are: three sweetgums, two juneberries, ,two cherry trees,two oaks, a pear, a hawthorn and a rowan tree.
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- 5 years ago
Friends of Blakers Park
5 years agoWe've planted NINE trees from our first order and willbe planted the others in the next two weeks!
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Supporters
65
Anonymous
Mar 28, 2020
Very grateful for all the wonderful work you are doing from which we all benefit.
£40.00
Tracy and Richard
Mar 23, 2020
We are very lucky to share such a beautiful park.
£15.00
Anonymous
Mar 21, 2020
£10.00
Anonymous
Mar 16, 2020
Anonymous
Mar 1, 2020
Thank you for all your wonderful work maintaining our beautiful park.
£100.00
LC
Feb 26, 2020
What a wonderful project! Looking forward to a colourful, diverse and melodic heaven in Fiveways.
£50.00
Anonymous
Feb 9, 2020
Look forward to seeing the new trees grow!
£20.00
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