SKY GOES GREEN
A group of Sky employees went green for the day, last Wednesday. They swapped the comfort of their warm offices for the outdoors. Joining the Woodland Trust Scotland they got their hands and feet dirty planting trees in Kirkton wood.
Kirkton Wood, owned by the Woodland Trust Scotland, part of the UK’s leading conservation charity is adjacent to Sky’s Kirkton Campus offices and is well used by employees.
Throughout the day, the staff came out in groups of ten and planted over 200 trees. Lucille Carr, Development Officer at the Woodland Trust said. “We want to encourage more people to get out and enjoy woodland. This was a fantastic opportunity to work with a company with offices in Livingston and improve the local environment at the same time. Everyone involved was extremely enthusiastic and had a great time”
Yvonne McFarlane, Head of Facilities Management said "As a carbon neutral company, we were delighted to support the Woodland Trust's tree planting initiative adjacent to our Livingston site. We had a very enthusiastic response from Sky teams and it was a great combined effort from across the campus. With Sky's strong focus on the environment, planting 200 native Scottish trees was an extremely rewarding experience for all those involved."
The tree planting is part of three year project which will make Livingston woods more welcoming and encourage the people of West Lothian to get out and enjoy woodland. The project has been made possible thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Executive, West Lothian and Forward Scotland through the Community Environmental Renewal Scheme.
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The Woodland Trust: The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. It has 300,000 members and supporters. The Trust has four key aims: i) No further loss of ancient woodland; ii) Restoring and improving the biodiversity of woods; iii) Increasing new native woodland; iv) Increasing people’s understanding and enjoyment of woodland.
Established in 1972, the Woodland Trust now has over 1,000 sites in its care covering approximately 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres).
In 1984, the Trust acquired its first wood in Scotland. Today the Trust owns 80 sites across Scotland covering 8,100 hectares. Further news can be accessed via www.woodland-trust.org.uk
