Eastbourne Jubilee Green Canopy

The Eastbourne Jubilee Green Canopy project is a collaborative venture between: Eastbourne Jubilee Green Canopy, a (once registration is complete) Charitable Incorporated Organisation set up specifically to oversee the venture. 3VA, a long-established Eastbourne-based voluntary action charity, who will hold the funds, perform all the administrative work, maintain the relationships with other Eastbourne organisations involved in the venture, and work with them to raise additional funds for their specific projects. Eastbourne Borough Council, who own the land through which the Avenue runs (having acquired it through an act of parliament in 1929 to protect it for the benefit of the town). EBC will own anything planted or placed on their land – please note that your sponsorship does not give you any rights of ownership. Treebourne, Eastbourne’s extraordinarily successful tree-planting charity. Eastbourne’s schools, many of whom are keen to have spaces on the escarpment where their pupils can learn to understand and appreciate nature. Other local Eastbourne groups with an interest in particular sections of the Avenue. These include the Babylon Woods group, Old Town Library, the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club and Meads Community Association. The Towner, who are helping with the design of benches, waymarkers etc, and whose development at Black Robin Farm lies on the track of the Avenue. Sussex Wildlife Trust, who are advising on local ecologies.

To organise and raise money for the regeneration of the eastern escarpment of the South Downs above Eastbourne, and to work with community groups to engage people with that environment for their health and wellbeing and to support wildlife Get Involved Fundraising for Eastbourne Jubilee Green Canopy started formally on 24th May 2022. If you would like to help us with fundraising, or in any other way, or to share your views on what we should be planning, or to sponsor a tree or waymarker, please email us at trees@eastbournjgc.org. To sponsor a tree, please click on Donate in the top menu.