£170

A consultation with a Fruit Works team member to make a plan for your community orchard or fruit garden. We will run through all the important considerations, dig test holes and work with you to come up with the best design for your community’s needs. We will then draw up the design and help you share it with your community for feedback.

£420

A fun, fruit-filled session that will bring people together to get excited about growing and using fruit. Apple juicing is always popular, especially with families. We provide fruit and the apple pressing equipment, and facilitate the session to ensure everybody can enjoy pressing fruit safely. This activity works well alongside community engagement and consultation on new orchard plans.

£420 for 2 staff to deliver a 3 hour planting session, plus £75 per tree (plant, mulch, 2 x stakes and steel mesh cage) and £10 per currant bush

We’ll supply the trees, cages, stakes, ties and mulch and provide tools and PPE to facilitate planting your orchard. Participants will learn how to plant and stake fruit trees correctly so that the trees are given the best possible start in their new home.

£140 labour, plus £6 per tree/bush for materials

Now that your trees have been planted, the work continues: caring for your trees early in their lives is critical to their long term health. During this session, we will give your trees a health check, prune and weed where needed and apply a top-up of woodchip mulch. We will then advise you on how best to look after your trees going forward. This session can be with volunteers from your group or you can choose to have us come on our own.

£300

A practical and informative workshop on the basics of fruit tree pruning from one of our team of fruit tree specialists. Your group will learn the theory and practical elements of fruit tree pruning and get to have a go themselves using a range of tools that we provide.

£300, plus £5 per participant for materials

Grafting is the skill of making new fruit trees by attaching a cutting (scion) to a compatible root system (rootstock). In this workshop, your group will learn the theory and practice of this valuable and satisfying skill and each person will create 2 of their own grafted trees to grow on at home.

Option 1: Workshop & tree giveaway

Appropriate for smaller groups, and those more likely to have the time & tools to plant the trees themselves, and likelihood of attending a workshop. 

How it works:

• The group are invited to sign up for a free, 2-hour Fruit Tree Planting & Care workshop with a free fruit tree as part of the workshop

• They fill in a form to sign up and indicate what kind of tree they need

• In the workshop, we run through planting, pruning, mulching, watering and all the top tips for raising fruit trees

• We provide the requested trees from our local nursery at the workshop for people to take home

£25 per tree

£575 workshop and project management

Option 2: Tree giveaway with Fruit Works team delivering & planting 

Appropriate for more ambitious amounts of trees to be planted, and groups where some members are likely to need help with planting the tree. 

How it works:

• People in your community sign up via an online form for a free tree and specify what size they need and whether they need help planting the tree

• We communicate to the sign-ups when we’ll be delivering their tree

• We source the trees from our nursery

• We drop the trees at people’s homes and if requested, plant them with them or for them

• We email participants with after-care advice once in Spring, once in Summer, once in Autumn

£25 per participant for tree 

£23 per participant for labour to deliver and plant trees 

£510 project management flat rate