reLEAF

Planting Trees for a Carbon Neutral Haddenham

Recent research suggests planting billions of trees across the world is the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis. Wood is 50% carbon, so trees are a great carbon store, removing carbon from the atmosphere. Tree planting is not only a powerful climate change solution, it is also cheap, available now and everyone can get involved.

One of the village’s goals in the Neighbourhood Plan is for the parish to become carbon neutral by 2030. reLEAF is part of delivering this and is a joint project between Zero Carbon Haddenham and Haddenham Parish Council.

Achievements to date

Since 2020, we have planted approximately 230 trees and over 1500 hedging plants across Haddenham. We have assisted the Parish Council to get funding for trees in Woodways Park and facilitated the planning of street trees by Buckinghamshire Council.

If you would like to read more about reLEAF’s achievements, please click here.

Can you help? Here are some ways you can support us:

We are always looking for new members to join our very friendly team of planters! If you would like to join our reLEAF volunteer group, please use this form to volunteer or contact us at releaf@nullzeroch.org

Some of the areas we need help with include:

  • Joining one of our tree planting events
  • Looking after young trees by watering them
  • Fundraising and applying for grants
  • Identifying places where we can plant trees (see How to do a survey for reLEAF)
  • Admin help – like taking minutes at our meetings or helping with communications and social media
  • Engaging with our community groups, schools, residents, land owners and businesses

Future new project

Having successfully completed the tree and hedge planting around the sports field at Tibbs Road, we are preparing to start our next project, which will be to plant trees on The Grove, (the area between Stanbridge Road and Aston Road. In partnership with Haddenham Parish Council, we are endeavouring to replace the very large number of dead trees that were planted by the developers, and increase the number of trees in the Grove, including a small orchard in the wild park area. The project will commence with the planting of a substantial number of trees representing a Circle of Blossom in memory of the inspiration behind reLEAF and founder, Kirsten Shaw.  

The date to plant the Circle of Blossom which will be in the wild park area of the Grove opposite the Garden Centre, will be announced later this autumn. See here for reLEAF work party dates.