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£2,145
raised of £3,000 target by 65 supporters

    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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    • Friends of Blakers Park5 years ago
      Friends of Blakers Park

      Friends of Blakers Park

      5 years ago

      Thank 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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    • Friends of Blakers Park5 years ago
      Friends of Blakers Park

      Friends of Blakers Park

      5 years ago

      Thank 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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    • Friends of Blakers Park5 years ago
      Friends of Blakers Park

      Friends of Blakers Park

      5 years ago

      We've planted NINE trees from our first order and willbe planted the others in the next two weeks!

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    5 years ago

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    65

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Mar 28, 2020

      Very grateful for all the wonderful work you are doing from which we all benefit.

      £40.00

    • Tracy and Richard

      Tracy and Richard

      Mar 23, 2020

      We are very lucky to share such a beautiful park.

      £15.00

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Mar 21, 2020

      £10.00

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Mar 16, 2020

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Mar 1, 2020

      Thank you for all your wonderful work maintaining our beautiful park.

      £100.00

    • LC

      LC

      Feb 26, 2020

      What a wonderful project! Looking forward to a colourful, diverse and melodic heaven in Fiveways.

      £50.00

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      Feb 9, 2020

      Look forward to seeing the new trees grow!

      £20.00

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