Premier has once again teamed up with some of its customers and the Woodland Trust, this time to create new hedgerows in Yorkshire.
At a site in Keighley, West Yorkshire, Premier’s Leeds branch teamed up with their Carbon Capture customers to take part in a special tree planting project to support the Woodland Trust’s MOREhedges scheme. Throughout the day, Premier and their customers successfully helped to plant over 500 saplings, including maples, hawthorns, hazels and crab apples. These saplings will form part of a planned 600m of hedgerow for the area and will help to provide landscape corridors with the adjacent woodland areas as well as beneficial habitats that support small mammals, birds and insects.
Hussein Ismail, Premier’s sustainable business director commented, ‘This was not only Premier’s first tree planting event of the year but it was also the first one that we’ve been able to host in Yorkshire. The weather was on our side and we’re thankful to everybody who attended, planted trees and helped to create a fantastic day.’
As part of the Woodland Trust’s woodland creation initiative, MOREhedges provides saplings, advice and funding for new hedging projects at sites around the UK. Premier’s involvement with the Woodland Trust began over ten years ago and, during that decade, the company and its customers have raised in excess of £1.37m for the Woodland Trust, planted over 354,000 trees and captured more than 82,000 tonnes of CO2.
