This marks our fifth year of supporting and actively participating in the Arthur Rank Christmas Tree Collection Scheme—a cause close to our hearts.

We've been involved in promoting the initiative through social media and email campaigns, as well as lending a hand on the day to help collect trees.

This Christmas was the most successful yet! A staggering 4,000 trees were collected, and donations have exceeded £100,000.

Here’s an update from their website. For more details, click the link below:

Over three days from 9-11 January 2025, some 4,000 Christmas trees were collected by more than 160 volunteers across Cambridgeshire.

This incredible scheme started ten years ago at Arthur Rank Hospice Charity and has grown from 400 trees in the first year, to become one of the biggest collections in the country this year. From Cottenham to Cambourne, Duxford to Waterbeach and everywhere in between, trees were collected across the county and for the first time the Royston area was included too.

Volunteers went out in vans, trucks, Land Rovers with trailers and even camper vans to help pick up trees around the county. This carefully planned operation, saw more than 100 routes drawn up, and divided out between the army of volunteers.