St Catherine’s Hospice is looking for “Tree”-mendous volunteers

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‘Tis the season to volunteer! In January 2025, St Catherine’s Hospice is running a Christmas tree collection service in partnership with Just Helping. Now the local hospice is looking for volunteers to help.

On Friday 10 and Saturday 11 January St Catherine’s will be collecting unwanted Christmas trees from outside people’s homes in Crawley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Redhill and Reigate, in return for a donation towards their care.

The local charity is looking for Volunteer Drivers and Volunteer Driver Assistants to help collect trees and return them to a drop-off location for recycling. Working in teams of three, volunteers will be given a route to follow, collecting approximately 40 trees from across their area.

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Emma Butler, Events and Campaigns Fundraiser at St Catherine’s said: “We need more than 40 volunteers and 14 vans for our Christmas tree collections to be a success. If you can spare some time, we’d love to hear from you. And if you have access to a van that you’re willing to use, even better!

Volunteers collecting Christmas trees last winter to raise money for St Catherine’s HospiceVolunteers collecting Christmas trees last winter to raise money for St Catherine’s Hospice
Volunteers collecting Christmas trees last winter to raise money for St Catherine’s Hospice

“We hope to raise more than £10,000 for our hospice – vital funds that are needed now more than ever.”

Benita Potts generously helped the charity collect trees last winter. She said: "I had a great time out in the fresh air with some lovely people and we had lots of laughs. We raised much-needed funds for the wonderful St Catherine’s, whilst helping the environment by collecting and recycling unwanted Christmas trees."

For more information and to register to volunteer, please visit www.stch.org.uk/tree-collection, contact St Catherine’s Events team on 01293 447361 or email [email protected].

Alternatively, if you’d like to support St Catherine’s and arrange for your Christmas tree to be collected, bookings can be made at www.stch.org.uk/tree-collection from Friday 15 November.

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