Tony Chadwick (Woodland Trust)
If you have any questions on the way, please do feel free to ask me.
So we’ll head off down here and will stop off on the way to look at a few interesting things...
OK, does anybody know what the difference between a woodland and a forest is. A forest is usually a legal term and it was used to denote Forest Law.
...So basically the technique for planting is (and everyone has their own little way) – you take the soil and put it to one side...
Volunteers
We just watch, that’s good!
Tony Chadwick (Woodland Trust)
It’s very clay-ey. By the end of the day you’re going to be about six inches taller because your boots will up to there with clay.
Ian Wood (BT)
It’s great to be out here today with a bunch of other BT people planting some half a million trees that BT customers, by going for paper-free billing, have donated to the Woodland Trust.
Online billing is a great ‘win win win’ story in that... it’s a win for BT – we manage to provide our customers with a service at a much lower cost than it would have been any other way. It’s a win too for our customers, they are getting far better information online, when they want it, as they want it. It gives them far more ability to control their bills.
And it’s a win for the environment because for every customer that flips over to paper-free billing we donate a sapling to the Woodland Trust for them to plant and help create new environments for our native wildlife. So far BT customers have managed to donate 500,000 saplings to the Woodland Trust.
Stephen Hartford (Woodland Trust)
BT are here today so that we can say ‘thank you’ to them.
Three years ago BT asked us if we could devise a message to help them to encourage their customers to take electronic billing – doing away with paper which is an additional good environmental message. Between us we came up with the message that they were going to give us a sapling for every customer who went over to electronic billing. They’ve now given us 500,000 saplings. Without this sort of support from companies, we can’t do our work. So we’re here primarily to say ‘thank you’.
Volunteers
Hooray!