Trees of Steel Procession & Rally this Saturday 21st October

Saturday at 12:00–13:30

Devonshire Green then procession to Barker's Pool

(text from facebook)

Please come along to celebrate the passion of everyone who continues to defend our beautiful trees, and to say goodbye to those we've lost.

Trees of Sheffield invite all campaign groups, organisations and individuals who care about our trees to make their voice heard and their feelings shown, about saving remaining healthy street trees, whether they are ‘special’ ones like the WWI memorials, or the local street trees that protect and uplift us wherever we go in our city.

Bring families, friends, colleagues, neighbours, pets, banners, flowers, your message and of course, good humour!

There will be speakers to inspire you, words and music to raise your spirits and let's all enjoy ourselves.

Let’s make our voice the biggest, loudest, clearest it's ever been for Sheffield City Council to hear, for them to finally decide to work with us, instead of against.

Saturday 21 October:

12 noon - Devonshire Green meet up

12.15 - Procession to Barker's Pool

12.30 - Rally Starts

Dress code: Mourning Black | Tree Yellow | Hope White

Thanks and appreciation to the speakers, here are just a few. Please come along and bring your voice (on banner messages) too!

Tree Charter lead at Woodland Trust

- Matt Larsen-Daw

Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust

- Dr Nicky Rivers

Sheffield Hallam University -

Professor Ian Rotherham BSc Hons, PhD, PGCE, MSB, CBiol, MIEEM, CEnv - environmental campaigner, writer and tree 'expert'

Also starring...all the way from Lancashire, our Friend of Steel, the one and only - Sebastian Wiesel of The Rochdale Herald!!

Featuring Ian Dalton, London Tree Officer (of BBC's Countryfile/Sheffield fame!) plus many more well known and familiar faces Street Tree Art Sheffield community group members and the 'badly sung choir'.