As part its Carbon Capture programme, Premier, some of its customers and The Woodland Trust planted some 4000 saplings in Mead, Derbyshire last month.
Thursday 25 November saw Premier staff and customers, Sylvamo, the Outdoor Guide and CBBC presenter Gemma Hunt spend a day planting at Young People’s Forest Mead, near Heanor and Smalley. The aim was to plant 3000 native saplings but this was comfortably exceeded, with some 4000 in the ground by the end of the day. The 162ha site had been used until 2015 for open-cast coal mining but the Woodland Trust plans to plant a quarter of a million trees to create an educational outdoor space and well as a natural habitat for many species of insects, mammals and birds.
Hussein Ismail, marketing manager at Premier, commented, ‘It was great to finally get together with so many of our customers and suppliers again, to plant trees with the Woodland Trust. It might have been a cold day but everyone was smiling throughout!’
Premier began working with the Woodland Trust a decade ago and the Carbon Capture programme now has more than 600 signed-up customers and has raised over £1.3 million for the charity, planing more than 300,000 trees, capturing an estimated 80,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
