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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.

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.

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.

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.