Dorset residents chop down trees to help out at pull-a-pine event
Hundreds attended the annual Christmas Pull-a-Pine festival at RSPB Arne on Saturday 29 November.
Hundreds attended the annual Christmas Pull-a-Pine festival at RSPB Arne on Saturday 29 November.
A festive story trail and a new art exhibition are amongst the attractions at this event which runs from 5 to 23 December.
Several Dorset charities are offering a tree recycling service, including Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity.
The annual conservation event on the heathland at RSPB Arne takes place on 29 and 30 November.
Julia’s House children’s hospice has raised £17,229 in donations from its record breaking Christmas tree collection.
More than £18,000 was raised in support of a vital local hospice charity by a Christmas tree collection service that recycled 1000 trees.
A ‘treecycling’ initiative that benefits the environment and local charities will turn hundreds of Christmas trees into compost in the New Year.
People in Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch, Wimborne, East Dorset and Ringwood can now book to have their tree collected after Christmas.
Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity, is hosting its seventh year of Christmas Treecycling services bookable before Wednesday 4 January.
Register by 3 January to have your Christmas tree recycled by Julia’s House or volunteer to help with the collection.