PATT Forces Communities Together With the aid of a grant from the Armed Forces Communities Trust, PATT has been able to create a dedicated TV channel. This channel (Green TV) offering 20 bite-sized live stream events to engage, to educate, to train, to inspire and to encourage, to bring the great outdoors, and stories of natural…
The Humber Releaf project is a project that is being set up by the PATT Foundation that aims to create a revolving fund to support ongoing reforestation in the Humber region and create employment for veterans under the Green Task Force. The revolving fund is created through the establishment of woodland and the sale of…
PATT Foundation partners with award winning digital agency The PATT Foundation has linked up with Hull Based Company INIT Creative ahead of a new project launch starting in the first quarter of 2021. The organisations initially met through For Entrepreneurs Only whilst helping local start-ups as part of the Ignition programme. INIT Creative is…
Christmas is here! We are so excited to reveal the design of our new 2020 Christmas card. We worked with a local Yorkshire Design Agency (Thank you to the awesome Grace at Abell Design) to create this years theme. Woodland animals, who would be lost without their forest, and who are helping use raise money,…
Poppy Trail How did it start? The Poppy Trail is the work of HEY Workshops and in 2020 the PATT Foundation & One Hull of a Forest (OHOF) team are joining the partnership to extend the trail to East Hull. Working with OHOF and their Green Task Force of veterans we will expand the trail…
The PATT team has been extremely busy putting together the strategy around the Green Task Force and the rollout program starting in Hull in preparation for the up and coming tree planting season. PATT is currently developing a 3 level tree planting accreditation scheme. With support from the Armed Forces Covenant Trust funding this will…
With the advent of the Northern Forest, and the UK commitment to plant 50 million trees over the next 25 years, there has been recent significant interest in tree-planting. Whilst there is an abundance of willing volunteers, the reliance on their good will isn’t always sustainable or practical – unfortunately the mortality rate when trees…
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According to a recent study, 74% of Brits are concerned about the increase of single-use facemasks and what impact they may have on the environment. Ocean View Mask, who commissioned the study, also say that 56% of people have reported seeing masks strewn about in streets, rivers or parks. At PATT, we’re also concerned that discarded…
Using public transport anytime soon? Passengers must wear a face covering from 15 June under new rules announced by the Government on Thursday. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed the news and stated that access to public transport would be denied to anyone refusing to cover their face. For this reason, PATT Foundation has released a…
Trees help you breathe, now our PATT Foundation masks can help you breathe easy during the COVID-19 pandemic while helping local causes.
Is it more effective to trial carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies than to plant more trees? It’s the big question that governments, scientists and industry are battling over and while opinion remains divided, ecologists state loud and clear ‘we’re running out of time’. CCS technologies aim to suck carbon dioxide from the air, or…
A series of blog posts that tell our story
Our first ever tree planting day! It all started on the 26th May 2006 with our first tree planting event. Our ‘Baan Unrak Forest and Nursery Project’ supported tree planting in rural Thailand. With the support of XL Results Foundation Magazine, we supplied 500 seedlings to Baan Unrak School and Children’s Home in Sangklaburi, Kanchanaburi…
The Soneva Project In 2011 and 2012 Plant a Tree Today and Soneva planted 449 000 trees! You can read some edited highlights of the project below, or, click here to be taken to the project page on our archive site The objectives of the Soneva project were: reforestation community development increase habitat for wildlife…
Ban Non Thong and Ban Nong Muang Carbon Bank Project Objectives sequester CO2 reforestation micro finance environmental education Project Overview This project was funded by PATT through donations from the Premium Carbon Free offset programme we were running at the time. It was undertaken in collaboration with the internationally renowned Population and community Development Association (PDA). The project…
Standard Chartered Bank plants 10,000 trees in Sri Lanka with PATT We have been offering a green your flights package for many years, and this project involved working with Standard Chartered Bank’s “Green Your Flights” campaign. A number of local volunteers from the bank planted 1,000 trees in Sri Lanka. SCB donated 10,000 trees to…
Ratchaburi with Standard Chartered Bank The central aim of this project was to reforest unproductive land at various locations around Thailand increasing habitats for wildlife, prevention of erosion and to increase local access to forest products. Main goals of the project: Regenerate a degraded area with native trees Rebuild a natural forest by planting trees suitable…
Doi Mae Salong Project Project Overview The project was funded through a grant from the Waterloo Foundation in the UK. The project was a partnership between PATT, IUCN, and FORRU who were working with Thailand’s Supreme Command Office (SCO) in the sustainable implementation and management of the restoration of degraded forest in the Doi Mae Salong area of Chiang Rai in Thailand’s far north. 48,000…
Merck and PATT tree plantation in 3 Indian states At Plant a Tree Today we have worked extensively in Asia, and this project from our archives relates to a project we ran in three Indian states. The pharmaceutical organisation Merck worked along side us in Three Indian states on the 10th October 2010 in a hugely…
Plantation project funded by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Worli, Mumbai was again the location for another tree plantation organized jointly by PATT Foundation, SAGE foundation and Royal Bank of Scotland. Royal Bank of Scotland funded a plantation of 100 trees in which 25 were planted on the promenade opposite Sacred Heart High School and a…
