Trees in Chichester
Once again we are looking forward to taking part in the Festival of Chichester this year. We have 2 dates of our own:
- Explore Trees in Jubilee Gardens on the evening of Wednesday 9th July 2025: Event WT12 bookable through the Festival Box Office; and
- Discover Community Orchards, at Oaklands Park, on Tuesday 15th July 2025, a joint venture with Transition Town Chichester.
There is also an exciting
Day of Discovery at Brandy Hole Copse on Wednesday 25th June 2025 organised by the Friends of Brandy Hole Copse whose web pages we host.
We thank all our volunteers and sponsors who help make these events happen, including
Chichester Quakers for Jubilee Gardens and
Chichester Festival Theatre at Oaklands Park, and the volunteer team which runs the Festival of Chichester itself.
If you would like us to support an event you are planning, please get in touch. Our confidence is also growing in devising walks and talks. Or why not treat one or more of us to an informal walk and show us the trees you love? We'd love to hear from you.
If we don't know what trees we have where, how can we understand and value what they're doing?
Chichester Tree Wardens' ChiTrees project aims to mobilise as many volunteers as possible to map and measure trees in our urban areas. The tree data collected is input into professionally-developed software to calculate:
- how much carbon our trees are capturing and storing,
- how they are improving our air quality,
- the water management/flood risk mitigation they provide, and
- the value of these services in economic terms.
Sign up to help here and start collecting and contributing information on our local trees as and when suits you.
Tree recording took place in 2022 and 2023. We've been slow to get started in 2024, but expect to do more.
Worried about the loss of trees in our city? Seen a space that's a perfect spot for a tree? Find out our progress with a project that aims to plant more trees in Chichester to benefit both people and planet (click image to left). And please let us know what gap(s) you've found.
MAY 2022: Tree-planting fundraiser launched for 2022/23.
MAY 2023: fundraiser DISCONTINUED.
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