Citylife in Lichfield January 2021

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Go Green with Treecycle! .............................. Lichfield, Burntwood and Rugeley residents can give St Giles Hospice a ‘tree-mendous’ Christmas gift this year by supporting the charity’s annual TreeCycle campaign. St Giles is inviting families and businesses who don’t want to face the mess and inconvenience of disposing of their real Christmas trees to sign up to TreeCycle and have their tree collected in return for a small donation – and the hospice is calling for an army of volunteers to step forward in January to help collect the trees. The TreeCycle team recycled 3,200 Christmas trees in January 2020 and raised more than £35,000 for the hospice, a record-breaking figure which more than doubled the 2019 total. Rachel Brown and Chloe Ingham from the Wincanton for Screwfix team collecting trees Now, following a year when the COVID-19 pandemic has forced St Giles to shut its shops during two lockdowns and cancel its organised fundraising events, the hospice has announced that TreeCycle will be going ahead and collecting from more locations than ever before. All collections will be socially-distanced and managed in line with the Keeping the Christmas Spirit Alive! ............................ most up-to-date COVID-19 guidelines, with appropriate equipment for both hospice staff and volunteers to ensure everyone’s safety. Tree donors do not have to be present when the tree is collected. This will be the sixth year that St Giles has been running TreeCycle to raise funds for the TreeCycle volunteers get ready for a day of tree collecting. hospice, and teams will collect trees from around Lichfield, Walsall, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Burton, Rugeley, Burntwood, Uttoxeter, Swadlincote, Stafford and surrounding areas. TreeCycle will be collecting trees from Wednesday 6th until Wednesday 13th January 2021. The minimum donation for trees up to 8ft is £10 and the donation for trees up to 10ft is £12. For trees over 10ft, please call 01543 432538. Collections must be booked by 5pm on Wednesday 6th January 2021 and trees should be left out overnight on Tuesday 5th January as collections will start early the following morning. Lichfield Tree Works and Greener Composting in Wall, Lichfield, will be recycling the trees for agricultural uses and as a result artificial trees cannot be accepted. To find out more about volunteering for TreeCycle email fundraising@stgileshospice.com or call 01543 432538. To book a collection visit www.stgileshospice.com/treecycle or check St Giles Hospice social media pages. Christmas was very different this year in Lichfield, with no official Christmas Lights Switch-On event due to Covid-19, however the city streets still looked very pretty at night and many of the city’s shops decorated and lit their shop windows, keeping the true spirt, and colour, of Christmas alive in Lichfield in 2020. Photos by Jono Oates 32
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