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Tramlines Festival pays for park's new trees

TOM MACDOUGALL/BBC Young children are wearing high-visibility jackets and using small shovels to fill in a hole that's been dug in the ground. In the hole is a tree sapling. There's snow on the ground around them.TOM MACDOUGALL/BBC
Children from Hillsborough Primary School planting four of the trees

An avenue of trees has been planted in a park after a contribution by a major music festival.

The organisers of Tramlines funded the 11 lime trees for Hillsborough Park in Sheffield, where the festival is held in July.

The Tramlines Trust has donated more than £32,000 towards projects in the local community this year.

Timm Cleasby, the festival's director of operations, said they wanted to help people who "work hard every day to improve and support others."

TOM MACDOUGALL/BBC The children are gathered around the sapling, listening to a man from the council who's talking. One girl is reaching into an orange bucket filled with food for the tree.TOM MACDOUGALL/BBC
Tramlines Festival, based in Hillsborough Park since 2018, has paid for the trees

Children from Hillsborough Primary School were invited to take part in the planting.

Mr Cleasby added: “As ever, I’m so proud to see the many projects in the local area which are helping people in many different ways.

"I’m glad that Tramlines can contribute to this work. I see this as an essential part of the festival and can’t wait to see the new avenue of trees."

Vicky Westwood, a teacher at Hillsborough Primary School, said it was a "good opportunity" for pupils, who named one of the specimens Petals.

"Anything sort of hands-on, getting out in the park, they love."

Tramlines Festival has been based at Hillsborough Park since it moved from the city centre in 2018.

Half of the Trust's funding is going towards projects in the Hillsborough area.

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