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I need to find about ~£10k for @protect.earth before I can get out of bed. Our calls with main funding partner yesterday show they’re not going to be our lifeline. They’re unable to sponsor any trees because £5 is “too expensive” but that’s literally how much it costs. Projects will be scrapped.

Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️

@philsturgeon.com

Planting trees in the U.K. is expensive. Tree: £1 Stake: £1.50 Guard: £1.20 Munch Mat: £1 Kept back for restocking: 50p Planters when no volunteers around: £1.10 Well that’s £6.30, but not all projects need all that stuff so on average £5 just about squeaks us through. Still not good enough.

Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️

@philsturgeon.com

Some organisations I won’t name charge between £1-3. The £1 tree org only funds already funded work. Excuse me? Yep, they fund projects that already have government grants approved or other funding, then just double account that tree to be in their name also. Weird and shit behaviour IMO.

Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️

@philsturgeon.com

One of the £3 orgs are getting that to plant trees sure, but they’re shoving in non-native conifers unprotected which they’ll harvest for timber. That’s not funding wildlife friendly native British woodlands, that’s covering the startup costs of a timber company that has better marketing.

15/10/26, 8:12 am1 repost8 likes

Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️

@philsturgeon.com

At @protect.earth we only ask for tree sponsorship for ourselves or the landowners we work with when there is literally zero other funding for them otherwise. No government grants available. No local community fund paying for it. The sponsor pays for it. That’s it. shop.protect.earth

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