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100 trees planted for future generations to enjoy and to mark the Centenary of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)
On a blustery spring day, near Pensford, members of Bristol Youth Orchestra joined young volunteers from Babassa, a social enterprise in Bristol, to plant the trees which will form part of the Great Avon Wood, inspiring a new generation of countryside custodians.
Tim Harrison, Musical Director of Bristol Youth Orchestra, said: ‘Our players are not only learning and performing some of the most beautiful and evocative music written about the English landscape, they’re also stepping into that landscape to protect and renew it’.
The new Centenary woodland is made up of native trees including a Centenary oak, hazel, hawthorn, wild pear, bird cherry and rowan. They will help create a woodland pasture and bring biodiversity and abundance into the landscape.
Sarah Pitt, Chair of CPRE Avon and Bristol said, ‘the Centenary Woodland Grove and the Concert that celebrates it, are two sides of the same legacy. Together they honour the past while inspiring action for the future’.
Come and support CPRE at an unmissable concert on 29th March at 7pm at Bristol Beacon where you will hear the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as well as a new piece written and conducted by leading composer, Debbie Wiseman OBE.
CPRE is one of the UK’s oldest environmental charities, founded in 1926. Today, it carries out both practical conservation work through it’s ‘Hedgerow Heroes’ project, rejuvenating old hedgerows and planting new ones and heads up a number of campaigns to support solar panels on roofs, rather than farmland; protecting the Green Belt around cities and ensuring a ‘Countryside for All’, enabling young people from different cultural backgrounds to access the countryside for work and leisure.
The charity has launched a crowdfunder to raise money for the ‘Woodland Grove and Hedgerow Appeal’ to support its ongoing goal of restoring 10km of hedgerows by the spring of 2027.
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