Join Treesponsibility in a 'half-way' celebration
YOU are invited to dance, sing, dig or walk to help a local organisation mark the half-way point of an ambitious 25-year tree planting project.
For 12 and a half years Treesponsibility volunteers, often in partnership with landowners, community groups and schools, have been re-foresting parts of the upper Calder Valley.
With a planting target each season reaching into the thousands, a centrepiece of the celebration weekend from September 10 to 12 will be a bid to plant 1,000 trees on the Saturday.
In a weekend of variety, it begins with a fundraising concert and ends with walks of varying lengths which link up the sites planted over the last dozen years.
It's the concert at Hebden Bridge Trades Club that gets the weekend going on Friday, September 10.
Headliners Moonbuggy will travel up from Nottingham to deliver their own brand of reggae and dub, while support, as you can read elsewhere in this week's edition (see page seven) comes from local act Wobbly.
All proceeds from the event will go to support Treesponsibility's ongoing work in the upper Calder Valley.
On Saturday, September 11, it's time to put your back into it by rising to the 1,000 tree challenge, which aims to make a dent in the 11,000 tree planting target for treesponsibility's 2010/2011 season.
Everyone is very welcome to join in, although warm, waterproof clothing and stout shoes are essential.
Volunteers are advised to take the Blackshaw Head bus from Hebden Bridge as far as the Jack Bridge Pub, then follow the signs. Hot soup and refreshments will be provided.
Finally, on Sunday, September 12, the finale of the weekend events is the Valley Challenge walk which will link sites which have been planted up since the group, a not-for-profit community group combining reforestation and ecological restoration with awareness-raising about climate change, began its 25-year plan.
This event is 5 to enter, or free to anyone who wants to help raise sponsorship to provide funding for future tree-planting in the upper valley area.
There will be a single route with three different end points (set at three miles for familes, seven miles for ordinary mortals, and 15 miles for hard core walkers).
On all three days the aim is to enjoy, said Treesponsibility project worker Dongria Kondh, who added: "We are just at the beginning of another busy planting season, so this is a great time for new people to get involved with Treesponsibility.
"They'll find that we are a friendly bunch, and that creating new woodlands can be a lot of fun."
Treesponsibility aims to create a healthy and resilient landscape of interlinked woodland, hedgerow, moor and meadow which will help to minimise the area's vulnerability to flash flooding, create wildlife corridors in accordance with the group's local Biodiversity Action plan and provide a bio-energy source for the future through woodland management and thinning of the new plantations.
Anyone wanting more details about any of the weekend's events can contact treesponsibility@yahoo.co.uk, or ring 07847 815 926.
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