{"id":3775,"date":"2026-01-22T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:38:28","slug":"tree-mendous-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/2026\/01\/22\/tree-mendous-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree-mendous News!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a349,700 raised for local charity Hospiscare<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/01\/Tree-mendous-News-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/01\/Tree-mendous-News-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/01\/Tree-mendous-News-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/01\/Tree-mendous-News-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/01\/Tree-mendous-News-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2026\/01\/Tree-mendous-News.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Exeter\u2018s Grounds team have again teamed up with the local charity&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hospiscare.co.uk\/\">Hospiscare<\/a>&nbsp;to recycle Christmas trees, raising funds to support terminally ill patients and their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In exchange for a donation to Hospiscare, volunteers collected trees from households across Exeter and East Devon. The trees were taken to the University\u2019s Streatham Campus and were chipped by the Grounds team. The chippings will be sustainably used as mulch for the shrub beds on campus grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2,165 <\/strong>Christmas trees were collected by <strong>101 <\/strong>volunteers and chipped by the Grounds team \u2013 raising a record breaking<strong> \u00a349,700<\/strong> (and counting) for Hospiscare! This could fund <strong>1,029<\/strong> nurse home visits, helping Hospiscare provide compassionate end of life care and support to patients and their families when they need it most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past seven years of running Hospiscare&#8217;s Christmas Tree Recycling campaign, thanks to the fantastic support of all the volunteers involved, over <strong>\u00a3165,000<\/strong> has been raised for Hospiscare; a truly remarkable achievement that has made a lasting difference to so many local people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you everyone for your hard work, time and generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"374\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2025\/01\/download.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3473\" style=\"width:498px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2025\/01\/download.png 374w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2025\/01\/download-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a349,700 raised for local charity Hospiscare The University of Exeter\u2018s Grounds team have again teamed up with the local charity&nbsp;Hospiscare&nbsp;to recycle Christmas trees, raising funds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,55,59,63,75,93,109,167,205,217,227],"tags":[471,1699,2101,915,1003,1939,1495,1591],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tree-mendous News! 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