Treecycling celebrating 10 years

Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity has launched its annual Christmas tree recycling service sponsored by Waste Management Facilities.

The charity will be celebrating ten years of collecting Christmas Trees from the local community to be sustainably recycled to raise money for the disability charity.

Bookings are now being taken to have your Christmas tree collected on Thursday 9 January until Sunday 12 January 2025 from Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset and Ringwood.

Francesca Potton, community fundraiser, commented: “We’re thrilled to be celebrating ten years of Treecycling. We were the first charity in the area to introduce this scheme, and it’s become one of our most important fundraisers of the year and allows us to raise vital money and truly makes a huge difference in our efforts to continue supporting more than 1,600 children and adults with physical and learning disabilities across the county.”

Collections can be booked online for a suggested £10 donation, and the charity’s team of volunteers will take to the roads of Dorset over the collection weekend in January to ensure the trees are disposed of sustainably and recycled into wood chippings.

Lisa Delahunty, managing director at Waste Management Facilities Limited, commented: “We’re thrilled to continue working with Diverse Abilities on this exciting project. We will be helping throughout the period with the logistics and providing a volunteer team, to collect Christmas trees after the festive period and raise money for the children and adults supported by the charity.”

Diverse Abilities is also recruiting volunteers to help the Treecycling team to collect and recycle Christmas trees. Families and businesses with access to vans, pickup trucks, or buses should contact Francesca on 01202 718266 to discuss how to get involved and help make a difference for the charity.

Visit diverseabilities.org.uk/trees for a full list of areas that Christmas Trees can be collected from, to book your collection for January.