National Love a Tree Day 2024
Today we celebrate the crucial role trees play in our environment and health. This year, we’d like to step up our involvement and highlight the beauty and benefits of trees across the various locations where we operate, plus what we do to support environmental sustainability.
Trees not only enhance our neighbourhoods but are also pivotal in purifying our air, providing wildlife habitats, and improving our overall health and mental well-being.
Trees are so important to us:
- Trees help to filter water naturally.
- Trees keep homes cooler and prevent cities from becoming too hot.
- Trees trap a variety of pollutants from the air, thereby allowing us to breathe cleaner air.
- Planting trees can be a great way for people to reconnect with the Earth.
- Planting trees can be a great project to bring the community together.
- Trees provide much-needed shade.
We have the unique advantage of interacting with numerous properties that boast beautiful trees in their gardens or on their estates—whether it be through surveys, management, sales, or lettings.
Ecologi – The UK’s leading all-in-one climate platform
We support environmental sustainability through our work in managing property and focus on environmental and social considerations throughout the property management lifecycle. By signing up to Ecologi we are able to calculate our carbon footprint, reduce our emissions, fund climate projects, and share our progress – all-in-one place.
Ecologi support a broad range of projects that they can evidence where they are reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Our funding of the planting of trees is supplemented through the units we manage in Residential Lettings, and Block & Estate Management.
To date, we have planted 900 trees and funded two projects. You can find out more about the projects here: https://ecologi.com/watsons
