The appeal commences in October 2024 and comes to an end January 2025. Donations must be received by us on or before Friday 10th January 2025.

Please click here to pay your donation: Make a donation | Heart of England Forest.
Please pay in the money you have raised on or before Friday 10th January 2025. 

Our Community Fundraising Manager can arrange to visit your premises and empty the collection tin with someone from the company or organisation as a witness. At this time, you may choose to top up your collection to £300, if you wish to have a tree planted by Heart of England Forest in your company/organisation name. 

A minimum of £300 donation from group fundraising activity will qualify for us to plant a tree in your business/organisation name. Your donation must clear by Friday 10th January to qualify.

Raising and donating a minimum of £300, and upwards qualifies your organisation for one tree. We are not offering additional trees for additional money raised as part of this appeal, but the more you raise, the more we can do to help the Forest grow and thrive.

The following information will be printed:  

Cold Days Warm Hearts Appeal 2024 supported by (xxx company name)  

If your tree dies, we reserve the right to move your plaque to a different tree. 

We will endeavour to plant your tree between January and March 2025. We aim to email a pdf tree certificate to the contact email you have provided within five working days of receipt of your online donation. 

Trees from this appeal will be planted in Eddies Wood between the villages of Dorsington and Long Marston. 

Within 5 working days of when your tree has been planted, we will send you an email to confirm the species and a What3Words location identifier to enable you to visit your tree. We anticipate planting the trees from this Appeal will be planted in late February and into March. 

We are unable to offer a choice of species. Our Forest team plants a variety of native broadleaf trees each year according to our planting plans. When we confirm the location of your tree, we will also let you know the species that has been planted in your name.

We are unable to provide this opportunity as part of this limited appeal offer. Our Forest Team will be planting all the trees.   

No. This opportunity has been developed especially with group fundraising in mind, for organisations and businesses, and is available for a limited period as part of our Cold Days Warm Hearts winter fundraising appeal 2024. Our ongoing Plant a Tree product is only available to individuals.  

• You are not purchasing the tree that will be planted, it remains the property of the Heart of England Forest. 

• Please do not decorate your tree. Any decoration placed on, around or beneath trees, shrubs and benches will be removed. 

• Please do not plant anything around your tree. Any seed, bulb, plant, shrub or tree planted without permission will be removed. 

• Please do not remove or cut other trees, shrubs or ground vegetation surrounding your tree. Doing so may have a detrimental impact on the local flora and may lead to the removal of the dedication plaque or tag. 

• Please be aware that over time, our objectives and site plans may be updated, reviewed or varied and areas previously unmanaged by way of thinning and coppicing, may come into prescriptive work again. Whilst the Heart of England Forest will use its best endeavours to maintain and protect our woods at all times, we are not obligated to maintain or replace any specifically dedicated trees, tags or dedicated areas. 

This tree planting opportunity is a limited offer as part of our Cold Days Warm Hearts Appeal 2024. We do offer ‘Tree Championships’ to businesses which are frequently used for reward and recognition of staff and/or customers.  Please contact Fran Bos at corporate@heartofenglandforest.org for information.

• To support and promote your fundraising activities please download our branded Cold Days Warm Hearts toolkit including poster, email banner, social media asset.  You can use these to signpost what you want your staff and customers to do in support of your fundraising initiative.  

• You are also welcome to put the following wording on your website for the duration of the campaign: 

• This Christmas we/our staff are fundraising for the 2024 Heart of England Forest Cold Days, Warm Hearts winter appeal. 

• Once the appeal has closed you are welcome to put the following information on your website from November 2024 to March 2025 inclusive. 

• We raised £x for the Heart of England Forest’s 2024 Cold Days Warm Hearts winter appeal.  

• Should you wish to promote your involvement beyond this, please contact our Head of Marketing and Communications: laura.diep@heartofenglandforest.org   

We do not permit use of our charity logo on your website as part of this appeal. This is reserved for organisations in our corporate partnership programme. For more information, please contact Fran Bos via corporate@heartofenglandforest.org.

Whilst we are unable to offer you use of our logo, we’d love for you to shout about your support of our appeal using the social media visual provided in the toolkit and to tag us in your posts.