18 Aug 2023
Dreaming of a green Christmas? Give a gift to nature too with the Woodland Trust’s top-six eco-friendly festive gifts for 2023
Hello, here's an early sighter of some of the standout Woodland Trust gifts for Christmas 2023. Some thoughtful eco gifts for all the family, including bee nesters, den building kits and virtual gifts.
It will hopefully help with planning and meeting your deadlines. We've focused on eco gifts and there's a link to some pics to go with the copy and links. Please let me know if we can help further. Kind regards, Owen.
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If you’re dreaming of a greener Christmas and want this year’s gifts to make an impact on friends and family without making an impact on the planet, then the Woodland Trust can help.
The UK’s largest woodland conservation charity has compiled a guide to its top five eco-friendly Christmas gifts so we can all fight for a greener, healthier world this festive season.
Christmas is traditionally a time for excess – but your presents needn’t reflect that! Plus, every single purchase from the Woodland Trust shop – including Christmas cards and gift wrap – supports the Trust’s work with woods and trees, meaning you can help create healthy habitats for people and wildlife, while also ticking off items from your to-buy list.
Every product in the Trust’s Christmas range is eco-friendly, whether it’s a toy fox or a bee house made from recycled saris.
And if you’d rather move away from giving traditional gifts completely, the Woodland Trust has a selection of green ‘virtual’ gifts and unique tree and woodland dedications in woods across the UK.
Kelly Tanner, products and retail manager for the Woodland Trust said: “You can have a green Christmas this year while still giving friends and family something they’ll love.
“Our range of eco-friendly products really has something for everyone. Younger children will adore our new eco-fox – he’s so soft and cuddly and made from recycled plastics! Older kids can escape to the woods with our exciting den building kit and there’s a wide range of beautiful Woodland Trust home and garden gifts too.
“Supporting the work of the Woodland Trust as you shop is a fantastic and easy way to help fight the effects of climate change and nature loss.
“We have so many gorgeous gift ideas to inspire you and every single purchase is a gift for nature too because it helps us create thriving woods for wildlife.”
Here are the Woodland Trust’s top-five eco gifts for Christmas 2023:
- 1 Eco-nation Fox
Introducing our gorgeous cuddly fox, made completely from recycled plastic. Standing proud at 23cm tall, even his eyes are embroidered instead of plastic making him as eco-friendly as possible. He’s so soft and huggable, children and adults of all ages are bound to fall in love with him.
https://shop.woodlandtrust.org.uk/eco-nation-fox
- 2 Grow your own bouquet
Imagine filling a vase with your own beautiful bouquet of home-grown blooms year after year! Our grow your own bouquet kit promises to be a source of colourful cut flowers next summer and beyond. Sow your selection of British-grown seeds, including ox-eye daisy, night-flowering catchfly, yarrow and corn camomile into the rustic natural brown bio-degradable pot using the peat-free coir compost disks and wooden marker included. Not only will your blooms look and smell gorgeous but they’ll be a nectar source for butterflies and bees.
https://shop.woodlandtrust.org.uk/seedlings-grow-your-own-bouquet-set
- 3 Woodland Trust Artisan Bee nester
Every bee nester made from recycled saris is unique and individual in colour. Not only do they make a colourful statement in any garden, they provide a safe habitat for solitary garden bees.
https://shop.woodlandtrust.org.uk/woodland-trust-artisan-bee-nester
- 4 Den building kit
Let youngsters enjoy some free-range fun in true Swallows and Amazons style. This original gift for adventurous children promises hours of fun both indoors and outdoors. The den building kit contains a haversack with tough camouflage tarpaulin, waterproof groundsheet, natural jute rope, drawstring bag of tent pegs and wooden mallet. An enamel mug and washable khaki and brown face paint are also included along with a handy guide of den building tips!
https://shop.woodlandtrust.org.uk/the-original-den-kit
- 5 Ditch the glitz
Buy eco-friendly cards and gift wrap. The Woodland Trust’s range of Christmas cards and wrapping paper is FSC-certified and guaranteed to be plastic and glitter-free. New for this year is fabric gift wrap, in a delightful mistletoe design, made to be re-used year after year. You won’t even need sticky tape!
https://shop.woodlandtrust.org.uk/christmas-cards
- 6 Choose a ‘virtual’ gift
Virtual gifts are the ultimate environmentally friendly present for anyone who really wants to go green. Your donation to the Woodland Trust will directly help trees, woods and wildlife and could be used to plant trees, create a hedgerow or keep bluebells blooming.
Contact Information
Owen Phillips
owenphillips@woodlandtrust.org.uk
Notes to editors
For more information please contact the Woodland Trust press office on 01476 602993, Owen Phillips on 07958 066 766, or email owenphillips@woodlandtrust.org.uk or media@woodlandtrust.org.uk
The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation charity in the UK with more than 500,000 supporters. It wants to see a world where woods and trees thrive for people and nature.
Established in 1972, the Woodland Trust now has over 1,000 sites in its care, covering more than 30,000 hectares. Access to its woods is free so everyone can benefit from woods and trees.
Science shows that woods and trees combat the devastating effects of climate change: flooding, pollution, and extreme weather and temperature. They are also the ultimate carbon captors, absorbing atmospheric carbon and locking it up for generations.
The message is clear: trees are one of the best ways to tackle the climate and nature crisis.
The Trust has three key aims:
- protect ancient woodland, which is rare, unique and irreplaceable
- restoration of damaged ancient woodland, bringing precious pieces of our natural history back to life
- establish native trees and woods with the aim of creating resilient landscapes for people and wildlife
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