In association with the GAA Green Club Programme, GAA, Camogie and LGFA, clubs are being offered the opportunity to apply for up to 1000 Native Tree Saplings for planting next Spring.

A request for between 100 and 1000 saplings can be made by filling out the short form at this link as soon as possible and at latest by February 1st - https://forms.office.com/e/acGHw3VXww

Orders will be considered and successful projects will be contacted directly by the Tree nurseries providing the saplings before National Tree Week in March. Currently, we are not charging for the supply or delivery of saplings thanks to the generosity of our sponsors who have made them available for the project.

The offer is in collaboration with, the Easy Treesie – Crann Project (www.easytreesie.com) supported by Coillte (www.coillte.ie) and has provided approximately 50,000 native tree saplings.

An additional 10,000 saplings sourced with funding from the Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine through the Woodlands Support Scheme have already been requested by Clubs.

The saplings will be used to create shelter belts, planted along walkways and to generally enhance the natural landscape and biodiversity of Club grounds. Planting trees is included in the 5 ways to make clubs biodiversity-friendly as identified in the guidelines on pollinator-friendly management of sports clubs by the National Biodiversity Datacentre and included in the recently launched GAA Green Club Toolkit at https://learning.gaa.ie/greenclub

The Easy Treesie Project aims to plant one million trees with Ireland’s one million school children and their communities by 2023 joining the UNESCO-backed Plant-for-the-planet’s www.trilliontreecampaign.org challenge, reducing global heating by 1° during the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, 2021-31.