with Barclays Bank CSR Team
Orchard Planting with Barclays CSR Team & Volunteers
Autisan Orchards empty plots ready to receive grafted fruit trees
Matt with Autisan Orchards Bare Root Fruit Trees
Assembling for fruit tree planting training
Grandpa Joe shows where the fruit tree was grafted
The Barclays CSR team sets to work planting fruit trees
Families planted the fruit trees together
Barclays CSR Team learn to prune fruit trees before planting
Barclays CSR Team Pruning the top of the fruit tree
Barclays CSR Team member does post knocker training
Barclays CSR Team member uses the post knocker
Using the Post Knocker is a two person job
Using the Post Knocker is a two person job
A toddler and his mum show everyone how post knocking is done
The youngest person is in charge of post knocking
Toddler planting a fruit tree at the EKG Fruit Routes orchard
Fruit Routes volunteer Sarah Pugh
This Fruit Routes Autisan Orchards apple tree nursery is almost complete
Members of the Barclays CSR team survey their work at Autisan Orchards
Some of the Barclays CSR team at Autisan Orchards
Members of the Barclays CSR team at the Fruit Routes Autisan Orchards
A completed Fruit Routes Autisan Orchards apple tree nursery plot
Planting apple trees to create a Fruit Route around a circular path
The top orchard planted at the Birkenhead site
The EKG orchard tree nursery completed
The Barclays CSR day is complete with a job well done
Emily from the Barclays CSR team at the Fruit Routes EKG orchard
Claire from the Barclays CSR team at the Fruit Routes EKG orchard
A member from the Barclays CSR team at Fruit Routes Autisan Orchards
Sarah from Fruit Routes digs with a Barclays CSR volunteer at Autisan Orchards
The Barclays CSR Team managers have a well earned cuppa at Autisan Orchards

Members of Barclays Bank branches in Birkenhead and Wallasey signed up as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to work alongside volunteers from the local community to create a new Fruit Routes community orchard.

They agreed to help plant a heritage apple orchard and fruit tree nursery at the Edward Kemp Community Gardens in Ashville Road Birkenhead, Wirral, United Kingdom.

The orchards will help people reconnect with nature and will leave a legacy which can be enjoyed by future generations. It is hoped the orchards will bring people together to experience food growing and to improve their quality of life now and in the future.

Over 200 apple trees were planted in one day by volunteers of all ages starting from just 3 years old. Fruit Routes also donated apple trees to local schools and projects which will allow disabled children and schools to grow fruit in their own orchard.

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