The Re-Green Project Annual Report
Year ending 30[th] September 2025
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Treasurer’s Report:
Available funding for future development of the existing site as well as prospective sites remains almost unchanged. There have been no new fund-raising activities in the year ending Sept ’24.
Chair’s Report:
As stated in the treasurer’s report, there have been no new fund-raising activities in the year ending September 2024, due mostly to the personal and work commitments of the trustees. The difficulty in securing larger scale funding streams is the single biggest obstacle to establishing orchards in schools other than the site at Gota-Gota.
The trustees feel that a good way to raise the charity’s profile would be to establish a link with local Scottish schools and the schools in the Lower Zambezi Valley to raise awareness of our activities among pupils and parents.
To this end, we are proposing a ‘Partner Tree’ program whereby a tree is planted at a Scottish school at the same time as a tree is planted at a school in Zambia. The Chair will contact the headteachers of local schools to discuss how this might be achieved. Initially, a partnership between Kabwadu School (Zam) and Blairgowrie High (Sco), and Gota-Gota (Zam) and Newhill Primary (Sco) have been proposed, but this can be widened to cover Alyth and Rattray locally to partner with Mafungautsi and Chiawa schools in Zambia if uptake is positive.
The importance of planting ‘partnered’ trees will be to emphasize the connected nature of our shared world and should fit well into the Global Citizenship part of the Curriculum for Excellence.
Further to the ‘Partner Tree’ program The Re-Green Project would like to revisit the idea of collaborating with other charities in Zambia as well as Scotland. The Chair has attempted to contact the organization ‘Plant-a-Million’ in Zambia in the past with no success. I will, however, try again to elicit a response from this group as they are active on the ground in Zambia and could offer good opportunities for collaboration.
Further to establishing links with Zambian organizations, there are local tree planting charities doing great work in Scotland with whom the Re-Green Project could collaborate. Tayside Woodland Partnerships is a group that is very active locally and could offer a route into a shared funding scheme, as there is more funding available for local schemes than international ones in our experience.
We continue to look for a new trustee to help primarily with fundraising activities.
Chair
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