The region's leading Business Technology provider CMYK have planted 70 trees as part of The Queens Green Canopy to celebrate The Queens Platinum Jubilee.
The idea of a dedicated ‘Platinum Plantation’ of 70 trees to mark The Queens Platinum Jubilee was planned in early 2021, to coincide with the 2021/2022 tree planting season and the Jubilee celebrations. Whilst plans were underway, the Royal Household were also planning their very own initiative to mark the Jubilee celebrations. The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) a unique tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 which invites people and organisations across the United Kingdom to ‘Plant a Tree for the Jubilee’. So it made absolute sense to combine the ‘Platinum Plantation’ alongside the QGC project.
The team were delighted to welcome back Mrs. Sue Snowdon, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of County Durham, along with Councillor Alex Watson, the amazing learners and Staff from Learning For Life, Consett Junior School to Haystax and the CMYK Community Tree Planting Project to celebrate the first of 70 trees being planted at the ‘Platinum Plantation’. The ceremony was filled with laughter, enjoyment and some heartfelt speeches from all involved on the importance of sustainability for our next generation. Ian and Lorna Adamson, owners of Woodlands Park Farm in Knitsley near Consett, formed a partnership with CMYK in early 2021 to launch the CMYK Community Tree Planting Project. The Tree Plantation Project is exclusively and freely available to all CMYK Clients. As part of CMYK’s drive to be socially responsible, to give back to the local community and to help create an environmentally sustainable future for their business and their clients, they automatically enroll all clients into the Tree Plantation Project. This means trees are planted for every one of CMYK’s new clients which helps to protect our environment for generations to come.
However, the great work doesn’t stop there…also occupying the same site at Woodlands Park Farm is Haystax Inclusive Farm Experience. Due to be launched later this summer Haystax, designed by Lorna and Ian on their site at Woodlands Park Farm will be a specially designed complex to accommodate families who have a family member with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The Farm experience centre will provide facilities such as animal therapy opportunities, sensory rooms, quiet rooms, arts and crafts facilities, a classroom for educational information sessions, an indoor play area, pedal tractor fun, woodland watch & walks, insect hotels, beehives and so many more exciting outdoor activities for the whole family to enjoy. The site will also provide much needed respite for parents and carers to socialise and enjoy a refreshment from the Café. Lodges have also been introduced to the site to open up these amazing facilities to families who live further afield.
With a commitment of thousands of trees still to plant, everybody involved with the project from Haystax and CMYK are very excited to see the site develop as building work continues and tree planting resumes later this year.
