Thank you!

for suggesting a "gap" suitable to plant a tree. (To submit further suggestions, return to the form here.)

If you are able to make a donation to our city-wide fundraising appeal, please go to our Trees for Chichester (Mind the Gap 2022) appeal on GoFundMe.

Please include your preferred area of the city for these funds to be spent, if you have one, in your Words of Support.

For street trees to be planted this winter, the deadline for donations is Monday 11th July 2022. (This gives us time to finalise and place the donation order, of £209.80 per tree, with WSCC before its end-of-July deadline.) Our fundraiser will continue to run to maximise our opportunities to plant in different locations and to apply for sponsorship and grants - trees will be planted either in winter 2022/23 or winter 2023/24.

We will:

• consider all publicly-accessible locations suggested for tree planting and the types of tree that may be suitable;
• try to identify the landowner for each location where a tree could be planted;
• work with the landowner, if they are willing, to get as many trees planted as we can fund in winter 2022/23 and 2023/24; and
• work with local people to make sure each tree funded will be welcome and can be cared for (volunteer waterers essential);
• post Updates on the GoFundMe fundraiser to let you know how we're getting on.

If we can, we will try to make your money go further by applying for sponsorships and grants.

In deciding which tree to plant where, we will do our best to balance the preferences of donors, the locations suggested and the funds available. (If there is space for, and you would like to choose and wholly fund, a tree in a public highway verge outside your home, you may do so direct through West Sussex County Council's donate-a-tree scheme.) With participation from all parts of Chichester, we hope many communities will be able to enjoy new trees being planted and grow.

Three "Mind the Gap" trees in their first summer in Orchard Street (A286) opposite St Joseph's School, 2021