Special Offer for Forum Members

Folks,
I’ve got a special offer for any forum members interested in conservation in Ireland (which I know from the posts, many of you are).

I’m involved in a conservation organisation called The Native Woodland Trust. It is primarily involved with saving the 0.1% of our Ancient Woodlands that are left, but is also wider wildlife in general and is the only environmental charity in Ireland actively purchasing land for reserves.

They’re offering €10 off membership (bringing the price down to €25). In return you get 4 full colour magazines per year. You also get membership of a groupscheme (normally reserved for the employees of big companies) which gives you discounts in loads of stores around Ireland, including travel agents, garages, Halfords, Advance Pitstop, Apple electronics, fuel, home heating oil etc etc.

The groupscheme claims the average savings for a member is €1,250, so it should cover the cost of membership!

The link to the membership form is: www.nativewoodlandtrust.ie/component/con...rticle/62-membership

You’ll need a discount code – just PM me for it. (This is to restrict the offer to signed up forum members only.)

Any questions – just PM me.

Thanks to all,

Jim.

I shall be signing up also, excellent stuff Jim, a worthy cause.
Will have a scan on the site for a read up, cheers matey.


Mark

Excellent, cheers Jim. PM sent.


Daragh

JohnH wrote:

That's an excellent offer Jim,
.....
Could you possibly add some more information on the Trust and its work, I'm sure it might help persuade more members to sign up.

John

The Trust is the only organisation in Ireland focussed on our Ancient woodlands. We've lost 99.9% of them - one of the worst records in the entire world. The remaining 0.1% is still not protected and continues to be destroyed. (The next worst is UK, with between 30 and 50 times that amount still left. )
Ireland would once have been completely covered in forest, with the exception of a few bogs, lakes and the tops of the highest mountains.
Deforestation and the planting of single-species commercial forestry is polluting our rivers and streams and causing local extinctions of fish populations. (We have lost almost all of the Artic Char populations East of the Shannon.)
The Trust plants new trees only using seed collected from within Ireland, from forests likely to be descended from the original Irish gene-pool.

We are a non-profit, with our office & employee costs all covered by a benefactor from Canada, so all our income goes directly into our magazine and into conservation:

Recent Acheivements:
We have given away over 12,000 tree frees to schools over the last 2 years.
(see www.treesforschools.ie and www.treesforsecondaryschools.ie )
We have given away over 6,000 free trees to prize winners through the Irish Independent.
We (this year) planted 2 acres & laid 300m of paths in a school in only two days.
We have discovered a number of Ancient woodlands, not known to the National Parks Service and not protected.
We planted a new woodland at Farnaght Co. Leitrim over the last several years.
We recently purchased 20 acres in Laragh, Co. Wicklow to create another new woodland.
We are currently trying to acquire further sites in Cork, Galway and Wicklow, one of which includes two old Oakwoods in danger of being turned into a quarry.

We also always need volunteers to help with seed collection, tree planting & maintenance work, if anyone is interested in that side of things.

Thanks to all for your support so far.

Jim.

Hi John,
the offer still stands for anyone who has the discount code already and anyone else who wants to PM me for it.

We're experiencing good success on most fronts, hopfully saving two more woodlands before the end of the year - but the one area where we're just not making an impact is in growing membership. So to all the folks out there woh got the codes, please remember to sign up if you can!!

Thanks,

Jim.

John if you could print me one of the forms and ill get it off you tomorrow (ill be in the shop).
My computer dosent recognize my printer so i cant print it to send in.

Thanks again Jim for this offer.