| Planting
Assurances -
How and why we Nurseries and Foresters make planting
so affordable
Forestry
and Hedgerow planting in the UK is declining at an unacceptable rate and we believe the
numerous “Green Campaign” planting projects are charging far more than we in the
industry find acceptable. So much, that we are redressing the balance in order for more
people and businesses to sign up to a comprehensive national planting project by basing
ours upon actual planting costs.
The
£1.40 Per Tree Planting Campaign Breakdown
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| 2yr
old 60/90cm Native Tree Whip |
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£0.27 |
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| Plant
Protection |
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£0.23 |
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| Planting
Labour Costs |
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£0.305 |
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| Renewable
Energy Project Installations |
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£0.20 |
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| Certificates
& Administration |
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£0.15 |
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Subtotal |
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£1.165 |
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VAT
@20% |
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£0.165 |
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Total
Payable |
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£1.40 |
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| With
all woodland planning - registration, woodland certification, maintenance and our 15 year
woodland establishment payments plan covered by monies paid through the Feed in Tariff
from our renewable energy installations. |
The
2020 Mile £3.95 per Mt Hedgerow Breakdown
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5 x 1yr old 45/60cm Native Plants |
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£0.87 |
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5 x Plant Protection |
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£0.80 |
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5 x Planting Labour Costs |
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£0.57 |
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Renewable Energy Project Installations |
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£1.00 |
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Certificates & Administration |
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£0.05 |
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Subtotal |
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£3.29 |
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VAT
@20% |
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£0.66 |
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Total
Payable |
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£3.95 |
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| With
all hedgerow planting, creation, and the first three years of establishment costs are
recovered through monies paid through the Feed In Tariff from our renewable energy
installations. |
With
280 teams assigned to our national localised community tree and hedge plantings, we now
extend our planting options through some 567 UK sites, taking in some 15,270 hectares. And
with your continued support and sponsorship, time and our on-going phase1 planting
program, this will facilitate in excess of 20,000,000 native forestry trees and 2020 miles
of new hedgerows planted with 16,000,000 plants. As with any living things, despite all
the care and attention to detail when planting and maintaining, there will be inevitably a
small percentage of plant failures. So, as we are managing the projects, we will replace
any failures within the first three years of planting.
To
ensure our “Great British Heritage” is protected, we only plant British provenance
trees that are grown from within this alliance under contract by nursery stock company, R
& N Plant Specialists. These are in compliance with the Certification of Forest
Reproductive Material (Great Britain) regulations 2002 Voluntary Scheme for Native Trees
and Shrubs. And with the FERA Plant Health Passport, where necessary which includes annual
plant health checks and inspections carried out by FERA. To visit the Food and
Environmental Research Agency website, please click the following
link

Every
forestry tree we plant on your behalf will be registered into the CFOP & Landscape-UK
data land bank. This means we will have complete tractability and provenance records in
place for any subsequent timber sales that might arise late this century. And all
rainforest plantings are mapped with the Helveta’s innovative supply chain technology to
record species, measurements and GPS coordinates. This system provides us with complete
chain of custody tracking to prove legality and provenance in compliance with
international laws such as those defined under the Lacey Act (USA) and Forest Law
Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT – EU).
For your
sponsorship participation we will email a verification and personalised certificate
detailing the planting location or locations and CFOP Registration numbers. A printed
certificate can be posted out for an additional £5 and in addition you will receive our
newsletter (optional) and an annual offset update by email.
With so
many Carbon offsetting tree planting projects on offer and with such variable pricing
structures, it’s hard to establish whose pricing policies are right. As the growers of
forestry trees with no third party involvement, we quite simply offer ours based upon
commercial forestry practises with costing derived from that of grant aided or government
funded woodland and forestry plantings, both here in the UK and in the world’s
rainforests.
With
the CFOP tropical tree production forestry planting in the rainforests is overseen and
regulated by TRRP who carry out stringent checks at our tropical partnerships nurseries
and they advise us on where plantings are needed most at this crucial time.
R
& N Plant Specialists
FERA Plant
Passport No: UK/EW 54479
Terms of Business 
On behalf of the CFOP team we
trust that you find our project of interest and we look forward to working with you in the
near future.
The CFOP is pleased to play its part in this the

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