Devon charity celebrates share of £1million fund

A native woodland charity in Devon has received a £1,000 funding boost as part of Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards to support its vital work.

Moor Trees is dedicated to restoring and enhancing native woodlands on Dartmoor through growing and planting local provenance broadleaf trees. The charity has established 162 new woodlands and planted 165,000 trees to date.

The £1,000 donation made as part of the Movement for Good Awards won’t just help with planting trees, but it will be nurturing hundreds more and restoring the Dartmoor landscape, providing habitat to the declining woodland species whilst simultaneously isolating carbon and mitigating the effects of climate change. Additionally, it will empower volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds from the local community by providing a range of tree growing, planting and monitoring activities.

Zoe Partridge, fundraising manager at Moor Trees has spoken out following the overwhelming support from the public, “We are very grateful to the Benefact Group for their incredibly generous £1000 donation. This will significantly boost our efforts at the community tree nurseries, allowing us to grow even more native broadleaf trees from seed, with the continued support from the community. These trees will be planted in their thousands across Dartmoor each winter, creating new habitats and restoring nature. Together we are breathing life back into Dartmoor.”

Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards is giving away over £1million to charities across the year and invites members of the public to nominate causes close to their hearts. 150 awards of £1,000 have been donated to charities across the UK and Ireland. Further winners will be revealed later in the year and Devon residents are encouraged to keep nominating by visiting https://movementforgood.com/.

Mark Hews, Group Chief Executive at Benefact Group, said: “We would like to thank every single person who took the time to nominate a good cause as part of our Movement for Good Awards. Benefact Group is a family of award-winning specialist financial services companies and the third largest corporate donor to charity in the UK. Owned by a charity ourselves, charitable giving is at the heart of what we do. All of our available profits go to good causes and the more the Group grows, the more the Group can give.

“We are delighted to be able to donate over £1million to good causes each year through our Movement for Good Awards and are grateful to all our supporters, including the customers of the trusted insurer, Ecclesiastical, and the responsible and sustainable asset manager, EdenTree. We know that £1,000 can make a huge difference to the incredible work that charities do and we’re looking forward to seeing how this financial boost will change lives for the better.”

Benefact Group has donated over £200million to charitable causes since 2014 and last year was recognised as the third biggest corporate giver in the UK1. The organisation aims to reach £250million in donations by 2025.

Movement for Good is funded by EIO plc, part of the Benefact Group.