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Recycling Christmas Trees

By admin on Friday, December 18, 2009
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Jersey News, 18 December 2009 – Jersey Post is helping Jersey Hospice Care to recycle Christmas trees and raise funds for the charity.

Jersey Hospice Care’s tree collection service is now firmly established in the Island’s new year calendar, providing a convenient and environmentally-friendly solution for disposing of unwanted Christmas trees. For a minimum donation of £5 the charity’s volunteers will collect trees from homes and businesses in January 2010 and dispose of them at the Island’s green waste site.

The Head of Jersey Post’s Commercial Development Unit, Liz Purgal, said they were delighted to help as Jersey Hospice Care was their chosen charity in 2009. Each year Jersey Post staff selects a local charity to support and this year they have been raising money for the Hospice.

Mrs Purgal said: ‘Jersey Hospice Care provides a very important service to the Island by caring for those who are terminally ill and Jersey Post is keen to support them. As well as fundraising initiatives throughout this year, we are providing our expertise and services to assist people in registering for the collection while also helping the environment.’

Anyone wishing to register for the scheme can do so in three ways:

Online at www.jerseyhospicecare.com
By calling Jersey Post on 616530 (lines open Tues 29 December 2009)
By filling in a form available from most Christmas tree retailers and posting it to ‘Christmas Trees’ Jersey Hospice Care, Clarkson House, Mont Cochon, St Helier,
JE2 3JB.

Trees will be collected from Island homes over the weekend of 9 and 10 January 2010 (registration closes 9 pm Thursday 7 Jan) and from businesses on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 January 2010 (registration closes noon Tuesday 5 Jan).

Jersey Hospice Care Christmas tree committee member Matt Falla, said they were very grateful to Brewin Dolphin for sponsoring the event once again and to Jersey Post for their support this year.

‘In the absence of States funding, Jersey Hospice Care has to raise more than £2 million a year in order to maintain its services, so we welcome the support of these organisations. The generosity of staff at Jersey Post this year has been fantastic; they are going to be taking phone calls and mapping the routes for the drivers as well as helping with the collections themselves which will be invaluable to the team,’ he said.

This is the fifth year of the charity’s fundraising initiative. Each year the event contributes towards the funds raised for the Bedell Group Challenges in aid of Jersey Hospice Care as the cycle and trek challengers are some of the 50 volunteers who help with the tree collections.

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