Support Us
The Gloucestershire Orchard Trust is run on an entirely voluntary basis, so we invite you to join us in our effort to conserve and celebrate traditional orchards in the county.
Join as a Supporter
It costs just £15 per year.
Make a Donation
Make a one-off donation, no matter how big or small; it all helps.
As a Supporter you’ll receive regular newsletters, gain advance notice and discounted pricing for our events and contribute to the valuable ongoing work for the Trust.
Attend and Support an Event
Pruning workshops are free to our Supporters and other events, such as our scything workshops, our grafting workshops, our orchard tour, are offered to Supporters at a discounted price.
Join an event in other orchards
Join one of the events we run in other orchards, such as a tree planting or pruning session at Adam Henson’s orchard in Winchcombe – details of such events are publicised on our Events page.
Join one of our Longney Orchard maintenance days!
The 4th Saturday of every month, between 10:00 and 13:00.
Our land at Longney consists of 4 separate orchards, 7.2581 hectares (17.935 acres, in old money)in total, home to the Gloucestershire Apple Collection (c. 220 trees), a valuable collection of plums, gages, damsons and cherries (c. 50 trees) plus over 200 veteran trees in the two mature orchards. It’s a lot to look after and your help is welcomed!
Adopt an Orchard
If you know of an orchard within Gloucestershire (or South Gloucestershire) that may be in need of some love and attention then get in touch with the owner and get in touch with us … it may be that we can help to revive the orchard, for example by providing free trees or offering expertise, to help ensure it’s still an orchard in a hundred years’ time, for future generations to enjoy.