Christmas tree collection raises over £1 million for local hospice

15 Jan 2019 12:26

2019 has got off to a record-breaking start for East Cheshire Hospice, with its annual Christmas tree collection raising over £1 million since its launch to support the Hospice's vital work in and around local communities, and local MP, David Rutley, has thanked the local volunteer team for all its hard work in making this much-valued initiative possible.

Over the weekend of 12-13th January, thanks to the generosity of local residents, more than £85,000 was raised from this year's collection of nearly 7,000 trees, pushing the total raised since this much-loved initiative first took place 19 years ago to over the £1 million mark. As ever, all the funds raised from the collection will go towards enabling the Hospice to continue its vital work supporting local patients and their families across the East Cheshire area.

This impressive achievement would not have been possible without the commitment and good-will of East Cheshire Hospice's 300-strong local volunteer team, who worked tirelessly across the weekend, covering over 2,000 miles of road in 40 vans, to complete the collections on time and on schedule. Upon collection, the Christmas trees themselves are taken to local recycling facilities where they are ground into mulch before being mixed into compost for recycling back into the soil.

David said, "Once again, the volunteers and staff at East Cheshire Hospice have done an incredible job in organising another very successful Christmas Tree Collection. They should be very proud of the impressive and record-breaking funds raised, all of which will support the Hospice's vital work in our area. I would also like to thank local residents for giving so generously in support of this much-loved local initiative."

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