Teams of people passionate about tree planting and keen to break world record will be meeting at Hainault and Heartwood Forests on 5th December to see if they can plant over 18,000 trees in one hour.
Here you can meet these people and find out why they are helping to make the UK a greener place to live.
Team Hainault
Name of team:
Give love find love
Where are you from:
All over London and the home counties
Why do you want to take part in the record:
Give love find love is a community programme dedicated to creating togetherness within communities. We provide opportunities for fun, adventurous and meaningful events that positively impact local communities and the area in which they live.
Tree O'clock is a rare and exciting opportunity to be involved in and the added competition of competing against a fellow home county makes it all the more exciting. We want Essex to win this competition and be crowned World Record Breaking home county!
Name of team:
Ikea
Where are you from:
Wembley, Croydon, Milton Keynes, Edmonton, Lakeside
Why do you want to take part in the record:
We’re very proud that by working together with our customers and the Woodland Trust, our IKEA Foot of forest campaign is making a significant difference to our native woodland - thanks to IKEA FAMILY members simply swiping their membership card each time they visit our stores. In fact this scheme has already helped create thousands of square feet, so we want to say a big thank you to our customers for their support. Now it’s our turn to get digging! Taking part in this exciting record breaking tree planting activity is a great opportunity for IKEA co-workers to get stuck in and do something positive to help Hainult Forest flourish.
Team Heartwoood
Name of team:
General Motors
Where are you from:
Luton
Why do you want to get involved:
General Motors are please to have the opportunity to be involved with and participate in this important and relevant cause. Our team of eager employees will be wrapping up against the formidable and unforgiving British weather. We are all very much looking forward to digging through to a possible new record.
Name of team:
Hertfordshire Scouts
Where are you from:
Hertfordshire
Why do you want to get involved:
We wish to take part so we can improve the facilities and environment in our area, have fun and show that scouting rocks
Name of team:
220 (St Albans) Squadron Air Training Corps (otherwise known as ATC or Air Cadets)
Where are you from:
We are a youth organisation based at a site at Westminster Lodge, St Albans.
Why do you want to get involved:
The cadets are taking part in the event as the Wood is within our local area and will give them an opportunity to be part of the development of a fantastic local resource which will be around for generations to come.
Name of team:
Disney
Where are you from:
Hammersmith, London
Why do you want to take part in the record:
Disney has been an active supporter of the Woodland Trust since 2005, from their Tree for All programme to last year’s announcement of the Magical Wood planted by Disney Stores. Our Disney VoluntEARS, Disney’s global employee volunteer programme, are thrilled to be a part of breaking the world record.
Name of team:
795 (Harpenden) Squadron Air Training Corps (otherwise known as Harpenden Air Cadets.
Where are you from:
Most cadets are from the area and we have cadets from every local school.
Why do you want to get involved:
We are interested in taking part as it is a very worthwhile green cause, will give the ATC some good publicity, and should be fun to partake in.