Recycle your Christmas tree and support our hospice
Don’t get your tinsel in a tangle over recycling your Christmas tree! Let our hospice tick a job off your January to-do list, by collecting your Christmas tree on Friday 10 or Saturday 11 January 2025.
Our hospice is hosting Christmas tree collections across Crawley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Redhill and Reigate* in partnership with JustHelping.
On Friday 10 and Saturday 11 January, between 8am and 6pm, a team of volunteer drivers will be out in force to collect Christmas trees. All we’re asking for is a suggested donation of £15, or whatever you can afford, in return for your tree being taken away, hassle free!
As collections will be taking place all day, trees need to be left in an accessible, visible place outside your home, with all decorations removed.
Like many UK hospices, we’ve been facing funding challenges. Earlier this year we announced we needed to take immediate action to start to make cost savings of £1.5 million to sustain our future services. This included losing 40 clinical and non-clinical roles and reducing some of our expert hospice services, so now more than ever, your support and generosity matters.
Emma Butler, who works in our Fundraising Team said, “This year, with your support, we’re hoping to raise £10,000 from our Christmas tree collections. By supporting our tree collections, you’ll be helping to fund vital care for people living with a terminal or life-limiting illness in the local area and helping the environment. We have more than 40 amazing volunteers ready to come and collect your trees and we’d like to thank them in advance for giving up their time to support us.”
Bookings for tree collections across Crawley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Redhill and Reigate are now open. Registrations will close on Sunday 5 January 2025. Please note, only pre-booked Christmas trees can be collected.
To book your tree collection visit: www.just-helping.org.uk/register-tree, call our Fundraising Team on 01293 447361 or email treecollections@stch.org.uk.
*We’re collecting trees in the following postcode areas: Redhill RH1/2/6, Reigate RH2 0/7/9, Crawley RH10 and RH11, Horsham RH12 0/1/2/4/5/6, RH13 0/5, East Grinstead RH19 1/2.
