Greening Jersey Continues to Take Root Across the Island

23 Jun 2026

Now in its second year, Greening Jersey, the finance industry-led initiative, continues to progress on rewilding and restoring Jersey’s natural environment through collective funding, volunteer participation and long-term partnerships with local environmental charities.

Since January, Greening Jersey has delivered nine volunteer events across Egypte, La Vallette, La Moye and a new site for 2026, Le Don Batho-Hotton. Together, these events have facilitated 247 volunteers to deliver 480 completed volunteering hours. Tree planting has also continued at pace, with 466 trees planted so far this year across the recorded events. Outside of the planting season volunteer sessions have focussed on wider site stewardship, including gorse and woodland management and bracken clearance.

A key development in the first half of the year has been the expansion of Greening Jersey’s footprint with the addition of Le Don Batho-Hotton as a new site.

Working alongside the National Trust for Jersey, Greening Jersey volunteers have begun supporting the creation of a new community orchard at the site. The project will help bring an underused area into positive environmental and community use, creating a space that can support biodiversity, local food-growing, education and public enjoyment over time.

The first volunteer session there took place in March, with 11 volunteers contributing a combined 33 hours and planting 36 trees. It marks an important step in Greening Jersey’s ambition to expand the number of sites it supports each year and to build a long-term programme of stewardship across the Island.

Activity has also continued at existing sites. Volunteers have returned to Egypte, where work has included further tree planting and ongoing woodland management; to La Moye, where maintenance work is helping support the successful establishment of previously planted trees. At La Vallette the site has expanded from 2,143 m2 to 115,804m2 supporting longer-term plans for biodiversity enhancement.

For the second half of the year plans are also progressing on a new site at Plémont to restore the pond.

This next phase reflects the initiative’s focus on sustained, site-specific environmental care. Pond restoration and habitat management can play an important role in supporting biodiversity, strengthening ecological resilience and improving the condition of important local habitats. Further details on the Plémont pond work will be shared as planning progresses but the site represents another positive step in expanding Greening Jersey’s reach across the Island and the mosaic of habits it hopes to enrich.

The continued progress in 2026 builds on a successful first year for Greening Jersey.

The Greening Jersey’s 2025 Baseline Impact Report, prepared by True Limited, has now provided a structured starting point for reporting the initiative’s activity, participation and governance. It focusses on how financial and human resources have been mobilised into environmental stewardship and community engagement.

In 2025, Greening Jersey brought together 39 participating firms, raised £41,500 in contributions, supported work across 237,719 square metres of land, planted 865 trees and mobilised approximately 1,061 volunteer hours. The report positions these figures as operational outputs that demonstrate the scale of effort, participation and stewardship activity delivered in year one.

Greening Jersey’s 2025 financial statement also shows how contributions from participating firms were directed into local delivery, including support for Jersey Trees for Life and the National Trust for Jersey, as well as early planning and project costs linked to new and expanded sites.

Greening Jersey was created to give Jersey’s finance industry a practical way to work together in support of the Island’s natural environment and progress so far in 2026 demonstrates the continued value of that collective approach. The number of participating firms is now at 48 from 39, funds raised are almost double 2025’s figures and more land area – nearly 100,000 m² – is being supported through the intiative. By combining financial contributions with hands-on volunteering, the initiative is helping firms support local nature restoration while offering their people the opportunity to spend time outdoors, network with like-minded peers, connect with Jersey’s landscapes and contribute directly to long-term sustainable development goals.

As plans move forward for the second half of the year, Greening Jersey continues to show what can be achieved when the industry works together behind a shared commitment to Jersey’s greener future.