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Your funding will ensure the continuing success of a unique and very special conservation project in Northern Ireland. In 2021, you will be helping to create and support our new community tree nursery which will enable TCV to grow over 100,000 native Irish trees.

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  • Community Support & Development Community Support & Development
  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • General Public/Humankind General Public/​Humankind
    • Minority Groups Minority Groups
    • People With Disabilities People With Disabilities

    Situation

    Ensuring a constant supply of home-grown native tree stock is a very real conservation and biodiversity challenge, especially if we hope to mitigate against importing disease and pests. For over 30 years our community tree nursery in Northern Ireland has been collecting native seed to propagate and grow native Irish tree stock - to date we have grown over 1.5 million trees. This year we must leave our current site and urgently require funding to facilitate our move to a new location in Cultra.

    Solution

    Working with our volunteers and local community groups this very special conservation project is helping to educate, whilst ensuring we can supply almost 100,000 new trees every year grown from seed we have collected from across NI. Our process is as unique as it is special, collecting the seed by hand certifies both the quality and provenance of our stock, which is then planted across NI helping to increase tree cover, improve biodiversity and engage local communities.

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    100%
    Categories

  • Community Support & Development Community Support & Development
  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Beneficiaries

    • General Public/Humankind General Public/​Humankind
    • Minority Groups Minority Groups
    • People With Disabilities People With Disabilities