Thames Chase is celebrating their London Tree and Woodland Award. London Borough of Havering and The Thames Chase Community Volunteers have won The Community Woodland Award. The award is for woodland planting or management projects that have been inspired, driven, and delivered by local community groups.
Thames Chase Trust and London Borough of Havering have continued their history of working together to bring new tree planting to the borough of Havering. Throughout March 2022, the volunteers worked together to facilitate planting of over 4,000 trees in the newly created Hornchurch Country Park Covid-19 Memorial Woodland. Thames Chase is delighted that this partnership project has won the Community Woodland Award in the 2022 London Tree & Woodland Awards.
During the project Over 4,000 trees planted
- Trees were planted at Hornchurch Country Park in Havering, London
- Thames Chase Conservation Volunteers worked alongside the Friends of Hornchurch Country Park and Ingrebourne Valley to achieve a lasting memorial
The project was funded by Thames Chase Trust’s Trees for Climate programme and has been enabled by Havering Council’s renewed engagement with the Community Forest in 2022.
The judging panel was impressed with this concept of a memorial woodland and the committed engagement of the Thames Chase community volunteers to plant the 4000 tree woodland