Free blossom trees, planted for you, by your community.

Easter Trees is a registered Community Interest Company — Easter Trees Community Interest Company, company no. 17188547, registered with Companies House in April 2026. The full registered address and named director(s) are on the public Companies House record and on our governance page. The founder is Tara Button.

Until Easter Trees CIC is carrying its own PL cover (target: before any 2027 planting day), any event must sit under your existing insurance — your church's, school's, council's, or domestic policy. Don't list your land or host a public planting day beyond what your existing cover supports. If unsure, ask your insurer first.

Nothing legally. We review your submission and, if appropriate, add a pin to the map. You can withdraw at any time before launch via the self-service form at eastertrees.com/delist. The pin and any photo you sent come down within 24 hours, no questions asked.

Easter Trees doesn’t supply trees — you buy yours from a nursery. We commit to only linking to nurseries that publish where each tree was grown, and we recommend asking for Plant Healthy-aligned UK stock where it’s available. We can’t promise every tree planted nationwide is UK-grown — but we won’t pretend otherwise. More in the tree guide.

All submissions sit in Google Sheets accessed only by Tara today. Once the CIC is incorporated, named directors will have access. We don't pass your details to anyone outside your matched planting circle. Full data page.

Most dioceses require a faculty (or at minimum an archdeacon's licence under List B) for new planting in consecrated ground. We don't grant any permission; you pursue the faculty as normal. A sample faculty petition with species, root depth and proximity-to-graves data is in development — submit and we'll email when ready.

The exemption covers the church and consecrated curtilage via the faculty system. Listed memorials, lychgates and walls within the churchyard remain protected — flag them in your faculty petition.

Yours, until our CIC carries its own PL cover. Ring Ecclesiastical Insurance (EIG) before you commit; they're used to this question.

No. Easter Trees does not vet or DBS-check planters. Children attend with their accompanying adult, supervised under your existing parish safeguarding policy. If you want a closed event run by DBS-checked volunteers only, choose "by arrangement" or "I'll do the planting myself".

Recommended species are shallow-rooted ornamentals (Prunus, Amelanchier, Magnolia stellata). We recommend a minimum 4–5m between trees and equivalent setback from graves and walls. Caring for God's Acre guidance and your DAC's tree adviser take precedence on consecrated ground.

The landowner — the trees become yours the moment they're planted. We send aftercare reminders to the planting family. A replacement adopt-a-tree route is in development; today there's no warranty from Easter Trees.

The local authority that maintains it, not the PCC. Closed churchyards transferred to council care need their consent first; our pin doesn't grant it.

The School Canopy vision recommends Prunus avium (wild cherry), Prunus 'Accolade', and Malus 'Evereste' — non-toxic, manageable roots, small fruit. Plant 4–5m from tarmac, paths and foundations, and avoid blackthorn near play zones.

No. Easter Trees does not DBS-check planters. Planting events sit under your existing safeguarding policy — visiting children supervised by their accompanying adult and signed in as visitors per your usual process.

Aligns with Eco-Schools Biodiversity and Global Citizenship topics, KS1/KS2 science (plants, lifecycles, pollinators), and PSHE (tradition, community). One tree per year group is built into the School Canopy model.

No — it complements them. Easter Trees is the tradition layer; the Tree Council's Orchards for Schools and the Woodland Trust's free trees scheme remain the right routes for free saplings.

You do, via one of three patterns: adopt-a-tree (planting family commits), a buddy rota of 5–6 volunteers, or slow-release irrigation bags refilled weekly. Budget for a caretaker visit in dry spells.

You choose: "by arrangement," a single staffed event (e.g. the Friday before close), or "landowner-only" where staff plant without families.

Trees are £25–40 each, paid by planting families at local garden centres — not the school. School cost is staff time, watering, and a brass year-group plaque if you want one. No fee to list on the map.

Easter Trees only collects landowner data (name, email, postcode, site photo) and asks landowners not to upload identifiable people. Any pupil photography stays under your existing parental consent forms; you control what's shared.

Yes. The "I'll do the planting myself" option is the default for farm archetypes — hedgerow listings can be entirely private with zero public access. Pollinator Highway is infrastructure, not a visitor attraction.

For Pollinator Highway and farm sites, we recommend UK-grown Prunus stock from Plant Healthy-accredited nurseries with passport paperwork retained. If you're near a commercial fruit block, flag it on the form and we'll route you to clean stock only.

For institutional volumes, UK-source-identified material with appropriate Region of Provenance is the right ask. We're building this with garden centre partners; for now, ask your nursery for the certificate before accepting stock.

Easter Trees adds a tradition layer, not a competing grant. If you're claiming BN7/BN11 on a hedge, donated trees on top should be fine — but get it in writing from your advisor before accepting stock you didn't fund.

Public planting only ever happens if you opt in. Default for farms is landowner-managed. If you do open a public day, single marshalled entry, dogs banned in writing on the listing, no stock in the field that week.

Gapping-up an existing hedgerow is normally exempt from a Hedgerow Removal Notice; full removal/works on hedges over 30 years old or 20m long need notification. We'll publish a one-pager confirming this for the species we recommend.

Stay outside the root protection area (12× stem diameter from any TPO tree). The form's site description is the right place to flag any TPOs.

Yes. The form lets you set a planting event for a specific day; for hedgerow sites the default is landowner-managed, so there's no Easter-weekend access pressure at all.

Yes — Easter Trees Community Interest Company is registered with Companies House (no. 17188547). Your clerk will likely want to review the company's CIC governing document and any data-sharing terms before formal sign-off; both can be shared on request. Adding a pin meanwhile is no commitment.

A Section 96 licence from your highway authority. Easter Trees' pin doesn't grant it. Manual for Streets sets out visibility splays and set-backs from the carriageway.

The parish handles these directly. Our species recommendations are designed to fit civic land, but the legal duty stays with you. If a planted tree is later removed under a TPO process, replacement clauses apply as normal.

It complements them. We're the tradition layer; those schemes provide the saplings. No formal partnerships are declared today.

The parish — you keep what grows. We're not asking for transfer of title; we're connecting planters to your site. We'll publish a model adoption clause before the 2027 launch.

Privacy page covers landowner and planter data. The parish handles its own image-consent process for residents at events; we don't publish photos with identifiable people without explicit consent.

Yes — if it has a community-facing reason. The third option in the garden card ("It matters personally — and I'd like to share that") is for gardens where someone disabled, housebound, or vulnerable spends time, or for memorial gardens. Your existing network — family, friends, a class, a support group — can be the planting community.

No — only your postcode places the pin. For extra privacy, choose "By arrangement" so families email first; or ask us to show only the area pin (e.g. nearest village) until you approve a visitor.

Yes. Pick "One planting event" or "By arrangement" in step 4 and set the day, time and guest list yourself. The hero panel promises: nobody turns up unannounced.

Yes, at any time, no questions asked. Use the self-service form at eastertrees.com/delist — takes about a minute, no email required.

Only what you write in the public-facing description. The "tell us a bit more" field is read by our review team to decide if the listing fits — not automatically published. Ask us to keep it private and write a separate, gentler line for the public pin.

Yes. Memorial Blossom is one of the recognised visions, and we'll re-tag personal gardens as memorial gardens at any point. The tree, and the tradition around it, stay yours.

Yes — decorating the tree indoors over Lent, planting on Easter Sunday, and the summer "returning" map cleanly to person-centred meaningful activity. We'll publish a one-paragraph care-home framing you can paste into your activities log and CQC evidence folder before launch.

Most ornamental cherries (Kanzan, Accolade, Kojo-no-mai) are low-allergen doubles. As a default, site trees away from kitchen extract or dining-room windows; we'll publish a written allergy note before launch.

Real concern for residents using frames or wheelchairs. Position trees away from heavily-trafficked paths; species like 'Pink Shell' and Amelanchier drop less than Kanzan. Plan for a sweeping protocol during the two-week petal-drop window.

Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is excluded for care homes. Crab apples and Amelanchier are safe to handle. The Reflection Glade species list stays consistent year on year so familiarity is preserved.

Suet blossoms, foil-wrapped chocolate, and rice-paper hopes are all choking and dysphagia risks. Care-home protocol: edible ornaments only on a tree in a staffed lounge, never an unsupervised garden, and a staff-vetted ornament list before any planting day.

Memorial Blossom is the obvious fit. We'll publish a sensitive script for offering this to families, a rule on plaques (or no plaques) under GDPR, and a process for when a family declines.

Resident names, photos, and memorial details won't appear on the public map or our channels without specific written consent. You can withdraw consent at any time.

Three patterns: head office capex (treated as wellbeing/ESG spend), the residents' amenity fund, or visiting families sponsoring memorial trees. We'll publish typical-cost ranges (5–10 trees Estate Blossom or Reflection Glade) before launch.

Honestly: it's a marketing/PR play with slow-burn brand-asset upside, not yet a P&L line. We don't claim shoulder-season uplift numbers we don't have. We'll publish a hospitality deck with directional benchmarks before any institutional pitch.

Hard rule: planting days never collide with confirmed weddings on the same site. Choose "By arrangement" or a specific event date and we'll work around your wedding diary.

It can if positioned wrong. The hospitality archetype defaults to landowner-managed (your gardener plants, not visiting families), with a guided-event option. Curate your own creative direction; don't accept the generic pin.

Today: not formally addressed. We recommend a model release in your booking T&Cs before any planting-day photography goes into wedding brochures. We'll publish a template release before launch.

For paid hospitality partners we'd commit to a defined catchment lockout (e.g. one hotel-garden pin within 15 miles). For the public map listing, no exclusivity is offered.

Concept stage. For a per-stay or per-wedding mechanic, we'd build a wholesale supply line, agree a per-tree cost (£35–60 for hotel-grade stock), and put it on your cost-of-sale or marketing line. Contact us for a partnership conversation.

Your existing PL cover, until our CIC carries its own (target before any 2027 planting). Talk to your broker about a separate event policy for community-open days.

Real and acknowledged. For commercial settings we recommend planting semi-mature stock at your cost (your gardener can specify) or holding marketing campaigns until year 4–5.

Easter Trees Community Interest Company, company no. 17188547, registered with Companies House in April 2026. The registered address, named director(s) and CIC governing document are all on the public Companies House record — search the company number at find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.

For an institutional partnership we'd commit to a named broker, a £5m+ limit of indemnity, and evidence in writing well before any site work. Today, cover sits with the host's existing policy.

The advisory group is being assembled; we can share two named referees now under NDA, with the full panel published on the governance page before launch.

We don't yet publish a BNG methodology. The honest answer: we'd co-design it with your ecologists using the statutory DEFRA metric, with annual monitoring funded inside the partnership.

Stock from a vetted Plant Healthy-accredited UK nursery list. For institutional volumes we commit to UK-grown, UKISG-provenanced material with passports retained.

An institutional MoU would transfer planted stock and aftercare obligations to the host (e.g. Network Rail) unconditionally if the CIC dissolves. Written into the MoU.

For an institutional partner we'd move beyond the current Google Sheets setup to a CSV/GeoJSON intake with a signed data-sharing agreement, controller/processor terms under UK GDPR, and migration to a CIC-controlled database before any partner data is ingested.

Today: Tara Button is the founder and partnerships lead. Email hello@eastertrees.com for an exploratory call. A named partnerships director will be appointed in the coming months as the CIC builds out its team.

Co-branding is opt-in, partner-approved per asset. Veto rights and a written brand-use agreement; nothing goes live without sign-off.