How you can recycle your Christmas tree and support Chesterfield charity

Ashgate Hospice has launched its annual Christmas tree recycling service – and will be collecting your festive conifers from Thursday, January 7 to Saturday, January 9.

The ‘tree-cycle’ service is offered for a suggested minimum donation of £15 per tree from S18, S40, S41, S42 and S43 postcodes.

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The charity is asking that all trees are left outside ready for collection from Thursday, January 7.

Carl Jones, fundraising manager at Ashgate Hospice, said: “We are urging our local community to go green this year and get behind our treecycle scheme. Donations are crucial in helping us to continue caring for families across North Derbyshire living with a life-limiting illness.

“COVID-19 meant that many of our fundraising activities had to be scaled back or cancelled – leaving us with a £2.4 million hole in lost revenue. The support of our local community has never been needed more than it is today.

“We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who signs up for a collection and to the businesses who help us collect and recycle the trees.”

After a devastating 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, the hospice’s future was made more secure earlier this month through a lifeline deal with health chiefs.

Staff were informed the hospice will now not have to make redundancies and cut services in the new year as previously feared.

All bookings for tree collections must take place before the end of January 4 and can be done online at www.ashgatehospicecare.org.uk/events/treecycle.

Alternatively, call the team on 01246 567250 or email [email protected]

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