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It is really important to me that my little business gives something back. Coming from a science and conservation background, I really wanted to support charities that are trying to rewild our planet.
Tree Planting
Seeing as pencils are made from wood, it seems totally logical and much needed to plant trees and so this is what I have been doing and hope to keep doing into the future, through your orders.
Treesisters
From May 2021 to August 2022 I was partnered with TreeSisters. With them, we planted over 1000 trees, giving women in the Tropics a better future.
“TreeSisters is an invitation to everyone to do as much radical good as they can for the planet. Our global network of treesisters is transforming both lives and landscapes in extraordinary ways. TreeSisters offers unique global programs that focus on encouraging women’s leadership, Nature-connection, and significant behaviour change as we make the shift from being consumers to restorers. TreeSisters is funding the restoration of environments, biodiversity and communities within more than 10 major ecosystems around the global Tropics, through a diverse portfolio of vetted, trusted reforestation projects and in the process, planting millions of trees. Join us in making ecological restoration the new norm! www.treesisters.org.”
“Women are the greatest untapped resource on this planet. Women are wild, powerful forces of nature. But how many of us have become tidy, contained, acceptable versions of ourselves when raging rivers run beneath the surface? We need those rivers, let loose in creative expression and audacious action. Freed up and bonded together we could move mountains. What could be more needed than millions of heart centered women offering their gifts in service to the one who Mothers us all?” ~ Clare Dubois, Founder & CEO, TreeSisters
“When women gather, something else becomes possible. Ours is a different kind of power, a different kind of responsiveness, receptivity, subtlety and co-creativity. We need to gather, to inspire and encourage each other, because it’s time for a different relationship with life on this planet of ours.” ~ Clare Dubois, Founder & CEO, TreeSisters
The Future Forest Company
October 2024 sees 10 years of The Colour Pencil Shop Ltd. Derwent made a very special set of pencils for me featuring colours from my logo. It seemed fitting to plant a tree for each of those 100 sets.
The Future Forest Company is rewilding parts of Scotland and the North of England, and our 100 trees will be planted in one of their sites. Each tree is traceable, and each person who buys a set will receive a digital certificate with their tree so that they can track it and even go and visit it.
JUST ONE Tree
10p from very order contributes to planting a tree with JUST ONE Tree. So with every ten orders, one tree planted. I will be keeping a running total below.
Number of trees planted: 247
The Woodland Trust
Again more trees, but I really do love trees and so the more I can support charities working with trees the better!
Marine Conservation Society
My Masters Degree was in the field of Marine Biology and I have always loved the sea! It was especially important to me to support a charity that works to preserve our seas and the creatures and plants within it. This is especially so as the MCS does a lot of work in conserving turtles – one of my favourite animals alongside tortoises.
World Wide Fund for Nature
(formerly World Wildlife Fund)
WWF works to protect some of our most endangered animals and ecosystems. Again such critical work that I am proud to support.