DVCAG Tree Maintenance Programme 2025

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DVCAG Tree Maintenance Programme 2025.

Funding Support

Although we manage to source free trees and we are all volunteers, there is one major cost associated with our tree planting – the materials for protecting the trees, which at current prices cost £2.68 for each tree.

We still have quite a few tubes and stakes in stock, but we will need to raise at least £4,000 this year. We are hoping that around half of this will be secured from individual donations, and we have thus sought to raise £2,000 from other sources.

So far we have been successful in being granted £500 from the Peak District National Park Foundation and £500 from Staffordshire County Council's Climate Change Fund. We are very grateful for this important financial support.

Tree#10K Celebration at Back Dane Cottage

On Saturday 8th March 2025, around 70 people attended an Event at Back Dane Cottage, organised by Dane Valley Climate Action Group to celebrate the achievement of DVCAG Volunteers in having planted their 10,000th tree since DVCAG's first tree planting in November 2019.

The Event was kicked off by Kelvin Fletcher, Emmerdale legend and winner of Strictly Come Dancing, who spoke of his positive experience of DVCAG Volunteers, and then unveiled the plaque which explains the background to the Orchard of Wild Fruit Trees, which had been provided and installed a few days earlier by DVCAG.

Access to the Event was on foot only and involved a 20 - 30 minutes walk from Danebridge. The arrangements were greatly facilitated both by the use of the car parks at the Swythamley and Heaton Centre and by the shuttle service from there down to Danebridge provided by Golden Green Travel.

After the formal 'opening' of the Orchard, refreshments were made available. Giles Meadows had donated a barrel of New Oak ale which had been specially brewed by Wincle Beer Co.to mark DVCAG's achievement of planting 10.000 trees; and Giles also provided the delicious homemade soups with tasty bread from Elnor Lane Artisan produce in Rushton Spencer.

How to register

The maintenance sessions for this season are listed on this page. You can register your intention to join us on one or more of these sessions using the form. Please do your very best to attend and let us know in advance of any change of plans, if at all possible, in order to help us plant all the trees that are allocated to that session.

If you require more information, or if you are having any problems using the registration form, please contact David Brain on 01260 227468 or at candd40@gmail.com

About the Maintenance Sessions

The sessions will take place on some of our previously planted sites, where the trees need some care and attention. The main task will be to clear any tubes which have grasses growing inside them and insert new cardboard mulch mats. We will also note and remove the tubes and stakes from any dead trees.

All sessions will start at 9.30am and run for two to three hours.

What you will need to bring

Work gloves and a trowel / weeding fork would be ideal. We will also need one or two lump hammers for knocking in loose stakes, so if you have one that could be useful.

Ideally we need people who are ready and able to dig planting holes for the trees, but there are much lighter tasks for those unable to dig, such as protecting the trees with plastic guards. If you are able to dig please try to bring along your own spade and work/gardening gloves and ideally a mallet/lump hammer for erecting the tree guard stakes.

You will need to provide your own refreshments if you require any, and there will be no toilet facilities apart from what the countryside has to offer!

Also, please download and read the Tree Planting Guidelines using the button below before you arrive:

Tree Planting Guidelines

Health and safety

Please do not attend if you are feeling in any way unwell.

Schedule and registration form

To register, complete the fields below then check the box next to the session(s) you are interested in, then click Register

Please register only one volunteer at a time, i.e. couples, families etc should register each person separately. This is important so that we can manage numbers. Thank you!

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Select sessions:

Location	Date	Meeting point	Time
Clarke Lane nr Leather's Smithy pub & Ridgegate reservoir, Langley	Tue 20-May-2025	Leather's Smithy pub, Clarke Lane, Langley SK11 0NE	09:30	18 PLACES LEFT
Clarke Lane nr Leather's Smithy pub & Ridgegate reservoir, Langley	Tue 20-May-2025	Leather's Smithy pub, Clarke Lane, Langley SK11 0NE	13:30	8 PLACES LEFT
Back Dane Cottage	Tue 20-May-2025	Clarke Lane planting site	13:30	10 PLACES LEFT

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