Home School Group Visit to Frances Le Sueur Centre
An enthusiastic group of children visited our headquarters recently from a Home-school group to find out about what trees do for and how important they are for them and the environment. They enjoyed telling me what they knew and enjoyed learning new things, including how to plant tree seeds. They left clutching their newly planted […]
New – IVY Campaign poster
Heres’s our new Ivy Campaign poster – feel free to download and print it for your noticeboard or project 🙂 DOWNLOAD FULL SIZE PRINT VERSION PDF Or click on image to download screen version to share. DOWNLOAD A4 PRINTABLE VERSION
Roy Overland Charitable Trust Woodland & Ecology Grant Fund 2019
Applications for the Roy Overland Charitable Trust Woodland & Ecology Fund are now invited. The Trust offers grants to charities and non-profit groups and organisations for community based ecology and environmental projects. The project need not be only tree based, any project that will help the environment and ecology can be considered. The grants awards […]
800km Run to raise money for Arboretum
A Marathon a day from St. Malo to Montpelier! Ultra marathon-running tree surgeon plans 800km challenge to raise funds for two charities A British tree surgeon living in France is planning to run more than a marathon a day during an 800km charity-run challenge. James Averty, 52, who lives in Brittany, hopes to average 45kms […]
Adelina Wood 2019 Supporting pollinators
In support of the Jersey Pollinator Project initiative we are not strimming so much at Adelina Wood this year. We’ve only cleared pathways and paths to trees to help provide a richer meadow habitat. Beautiful down there on a day starting with humid turbulent weather like today. And later that same day…
Newsletter 59 Spring 2019
Hello everyone, Here at last is the digital version of the (late) Spring newsletter. We’re looking forward to seeing you at the AGM or the evening BBQ dinner, or both! Hope you enjoy reading this edition and welcome any feedback or suggestions for the Autumn newsletter. Click here or click on the image […]
ROCT Jersey Woodland & Eco Fund Application Form 2019
If you are interested in applying for a grant to help fund your Eco or woodland project please complete the form below. For more information on the Roy Overland Charitable Trust Grant Fund please click below:
Amphitheatre at Val de la Mare Arboretum
We’ve been keeping it quiet but due to a loose comment on Facebook today I thought I’d publish some information about our Amphitheatre Project at Val de la Mare. The amphitheatre idea came from seeing the geography at the foot of the valley leading to the new Chinese section lending itself perfectly as a natural […]
Seedy Sunday 2019
Seedy Sunday returned this year after a year off and was again a tremendous success. Held this year at Le Rocquier lots of environmentally relevant organisations exhibited, or gave talks accompanied by throngs of visitors keen to buy, donate, or or exchange seeds throughout the day. We were extremely grateful to Fiona Murphy, the organiser, […]
Onogo.com help create access path!
We were recently joined by the team from onogo.com, a local online retailer and clearly ecologically aware as they set to work on an access path we’re in the process of creating, the path itself connecting our recently created Chinese zone with the already well established Wingnut zone at our Arboretum at Val de la […]
Last Volunteer session with Investec Sept 2018
With a mixture of both gratitude and sadness, we hosted our last volunteer session with the team from Investec recently. They very kindly sponsored a hedgerow planting close to St.Ouens pond and have been an integral part of its planting and maintenance for the last three years. The project was initially proposed to work in […]