Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022-2023 - Flipbook - Page 4
JULY
Celebrating green spaces at BBC Gardeners’ World Live
TCV was part of the prestigious BBC Gardeners’ World event, with
thousands of people attending over the four days, celebrating green
spaces of all kinds. TCV ran a fun, attention-grabbing competition
to showcase our Health for Life programme in partnership with
Mondelez International. This project aims to educate and excite
children about gardening, wildlife and growing their own fruit and
vegetables.
APRIL
Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance
volunteering
TCV partnered with Camelot to help bring their teams together
for Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance volunteering
events, with over 170 employees volunteering with us across the UK.
The theme this year was ‘representing a Commonwealth Country in
a barrow’ to celebrate Birmingham hosting the 2022 Commonwealth
Games. School pupils from 46 schools across the Birmingham
region packed wheelbarrows full of home-grown produce. It was
a great success, with over 6,000 votes cast to decide the winning
wheelbarrow and more people learning about our important work.
The events focused on environmental tasks such as habitat
management in parks across the country, improving the sites for
birds, invertebrates and other key wildlife, whilst enhancing the areas
for the enjoyment of the community.
We had great success across multiple TCV sites, including Hollybush
Conservation Centre in Leeds, Mousehold Heath in Norwich, Sale
Water Park in Greater Manchester, Russia Dock Woodland in London
and Priory Country Park in Bedford.
MAY
Planting begins for the First
Pavers Foundation Forest
Pavers Foundation, a charitable
initiative of family-owned-and-run
carbon neutral footwear retailer
Pavers, joined us for a major
tree planting project at a site in
Wheldrake, York to create the very
first Pavers Foundation Forest.
This project strengthened the
Foundation’s desires to greatly
benefit the environment, create more
wildlife habitats and to help protect
the planet. Across the project, the
land was planted with a mixture
of 1,170 native trees. We now look
after these trees to help them establish over the next few years and
have been developing the land to include a wildflower meadow and
wetland area.
AUGUST
Over 2,000 local community groups supported by TCV
TCV’s Community Network continued to support thousands of
local groups across the UK who help create green spaces that
are welcoming to both nature and people. With the aim for every
community in the country to have access to high quality local green
spaces, and support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery,
Community Network members benefitted from guidance, discounts,
and access to funding for another year. We ended 2022 with over
2000 groups who are all making a huge impact on their local area
and the communities within it.
White Rose Forest in conjunction with Kirklees Council funded this
vital work.
SEPTEMBER
Legacy tree planting
for Her Majesty
JUNE
15 years in partnership with NatWest
In 2007, TCV and NatWest joined forces on a diverse range of
community projects to create safe and accessible outdoor spaces for
everyone to enjoy. We’ve worked collaboratively ever since. That’s
over 33,000 NatWest colleagues attending one of our corporate
volunteering days, giving back over 233,000 hours of volunteering
and supporting 400 community projects across the UK. Recognising
the vital role trees play in addressing the climate change challenge,
we added tree planting to our partnership focus and in 2022-23,
together we planted 60,700 trees to commence the creation of the
NatWest Forest.
The Queen’s Green
Canopy was a unique
tree planting initiative
created to mark Her
Majesty The Queen’s
Platinum Jubilee. Its
aim was to plant over 1
million new trees across
the UK supported by
over 3,500 community
groups, and TCV was one of the official delivery partners.
Following the death of Her Majesty, The Queen’s Green Canopy
extended our vital tree planting initiative with an extra 20,000 trees
until the end of March 2023. This gave people the opportunity to
plant trees in memory of Her Majesty.
TCV was honoured to help create a living legacy to remember Her
Majesty’s extraordinary service to her country and her people.
