BSW Group sponsored the Borders Book Festival in Melrose in June alongside their group companies Maelor Forest Nurseries, Tilhill, BSW Timber and CarbonStore. Trees were sold at the event raising £650 for the Future Trees Trust through sales and donations, BSW Group matched the funding to double the total to £1,300. 

Future Trees Trust, the only UK charity dedicated to improving trees were very grateful of the £1300 donation towards their important research.  

Dr Jo Clark, Head of Research at Future Trees Trust, said: “This is a fantastic donation from BSW Group, including Maelor Forest Nurseries who provided the trees, and we are very grateful to them for supporting our work in this way. 

 

“We will use this donation to further the work on our breeding programmes for commercially important broadleaved species. With our partners, we aim to be able to provide sufficient qualified and tested planting stock so that all woodlands planted for productive forestry contain a proportion of genetically improved material, to produce better quality timber, while being genetically diverse to provide resilience to climate change and pests and pathogens.” 

 

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