Premier recently teamed up with customers to plant 4,000 saplings with the Woodland Trust at the Young People’s Forest in Mead, Derbyshire.
Marketing manager Hussein Ismail said: “The Young People’s Forest Mead is a special place with incredible ambitions. It’s amazing to think that we have played a small part in helping to the build their legacy. We’re thankful to everybody who attended, planted trees and helping to create a fantastic day.”
The 162-hectare site is steeped in history with ties stretching back to the Norman conquest and the Vikings. Coal mining began in the area during 16th century and the land was used as an open cast mining site. In 2015 however, mining ceased and the Woodland Trust plan to plant 250,000 trees, helping to create a safe and educational outdoor space for generations to come; as well as habitats for insects, foxes, deer, hare, owls, sky larks and badgers.
Premier’s work with the Woodland Trust began ten years ago with a simple idea to give a few businesses the choice to mitigate the CO₂ emissions from the materials that they buy. Premier’s Carbon Capture programme now has over 600 customers signed-up. They have together raised in excess of £1.3m for the Woodland Trust, planting over 330,000 trees and capturing over 80,000 tonnes of CO₂. All money raised through the Carbon Capture programme goes directly to the Woodland Trust.
Another of Premier’s long standing key partners who helped to plant trees at the Young People’s Forest is The Outdoor Guide (TOG). In the United Kingdom in 2018-19 there were 4.2million children living below the poverty line (the equivalent of 9 children in every class of 30). TOG, with the help of CBeebies television presenter Gemma Hunt, have launched a campaign to deliver 10 waterproof suits and wellies to 20,000 schools throughout the UK to help ensure that school children receive the health, educational and social benefits from being able to play and learn outside safely.