Alice Whitehead
Alice Whitehead set up Save Our Street Trees in 2016 after she became increasingly concerned by the poor maintenance and disappearance of street trees in her home town of Northampton. While the main focus of its work is in Northamptonshire, campaigning for the protection and planting of urban trees in the town and its environs, Save our Street Trees supports urban tree activities and initiatives all over the UK. Save Our Street Trees believes urban trees have huge benefits for the health and wellbeing of people and the planet – and these benefits are greater the closer trees are to where people live and work. Find out more at saveourstreettrees.org and @saveourstreettrees.
When she’s not tree-hugging, Alice has spent 22 years as a writer, copywriter and journalist specialising in gardening and grow your own, the environment and food and drink (as long as it can be grown at her allotment!). She can be found at www.wonderlandfreelance.co.uk and @allotmentalice.
Have a look at the wonderful activities Alice and Save Our Street Trees have provided for the Festival here, and read Alice’s Festival blog here.