Dear friends, We are currently working to realise a dream: the Tree Planters Employment Society. Its purpose is to employ disadvantaged people to run renewable energy projects and plant trees to create woodland nationwide in carefully selected areas. Initially we will only be able to start by employing ex-prisoners, but once established, we will be keen to employ people with mental health problems, homeless people, people with learning disabilities and people with visual impairments — people often considered by many to be unemployable.

We aim to develop the Tree Planters Employment Society in two phases. In the first phase we will endeavour to become profitable, not to make profit for profit sake, but to ensure our resources are utilised most efficiently to maximise social and environmental objectives. The whole operation will be deliberately kept simple, efficient and highly replicable so it can easily be copied worldwide.

We also have aspirations to employ disadvantaged people to mass tree plant all over the world. We hope to provide a positive, highly replicable example of giving back to nature what we have often taken for granted and destroyed in the past; trees or the planet’s lungs. Furthermore, as our work will result in the valuable future resource of forests, this will, in no small way, help to regenerate the natural environment. Thereby contributing to helping to safeguard the ability of our children and future generations to survive on this planet without extreme suffering and hardship caused by deforestation, climate change and environmental neglect. As such the Tree Planters Employment Society should easily be seen as much more than just a most efficient and effective way to utilise environmental and social funding.

Paul Sinclair
Tree Planting Employment Society

At present the employment of mental-health-sufferers, homeless people, people with severe learning disabilities and people with visual impairment is not viable in the UK due to current United Kingdom Employment and Benefit Regulations. Our first task will be to earn equal employment opportunities and equal civil rights for our potential employees. We will post details of the required changes we need to be made to existing legislation shortly.