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Premier and Customers Join Forces with Woodland Trust to Create a Lasting Green Legacy

Premier, in partnership with the Woodland Trust, held a tree planting event, as part of its ongoing industry leading Carbon Capture programme. The environmental initiative offers their customers an option to mitigate the CO2 emissions generated by the production, storage and distribution of the products purchased from Premier. Held at a 38-hectare (94-acre) site on […]
Read MorePremier Enhances Sustainability Efforts with Solar Panel Installation Across UK Branches
January 2025
January 2025 – Premier, one of the UK’s leading distributors of paper and materials, has announced the installation of solar panels across its multiple branches as part of its ongoing commitment to sustainable business practices. This initiative marks a significant step towards reducing the company’s carbon footprint, with installations expected to be completed by the […]
Read MoreRooted in Action: Premier and Woodland Trust Unite to Host Tree Planting Event at Smithills Estate

January 2025 – On the 22 January 2025, Premier, the founder of the Carbon Capture® programme, partnered with the Woodland Trust to host a tree planting event at the historic Smithills Estate in Bolton. The event welcomed 50 of Premier’s Carbon Capture® customers to actively participate in planting 600 native trees, including oak, downy birch, […]
Read MorePremier Celebrates £2 Million Milestone for Environmental Initiative with the Woodland Trust

Previous Next November 2024 – Premier is thrilled to announce that its flagship environmental programme, Carbon Capture®, has achieved a remarkable milestone, with £2 million donated to the Woodland Trust. This support has funded the planting of 519,132 trees across the UK, which have the potential to capture an estimated 119,869 tonnes of CO2 over the trees’ lifetime. Through […]
Read MoreTree Planting – Premier’s Planting the Seeds of Change at Frodsham’s Former Golf Course!
November 2023
November 2023 – Premier, a front-runner in environmental responsibility within the UK print industry, marked a significant milestone in its commitment to combat climate change, in collaboration with the Woodland Trust. On 15 November 2023, the picturesque former Frodsham golf course in north Cheshire blossomed into a haven for sustainability as 100 of Premier’s enthusiastic […]
Read MoreTree Planting – The planet’s lungs just got 600 trees bigger!

Premier’s first tree planting day of 2023 was a successful event which took place at Yonder Oak Wood in Devon. Devon was the birthplace of the Woodland Trust and over 50 years on, they have been able to purchase a large plot of land in the area to create Yonder Oak Wood, a vast wooded […]
Read MoreTree Planting – Back to the Roots of Carbon Capture
December 2022
Pepper Wood is the home of where it all began. In Fairfield, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire Carbon Capture was born in partnership with Premier and the Woodland Trust. On the 6 December 2022, 30 of Premier’s dedicated environmental champions gave an early Christmas present back to mother nature. The small but mighty team of tree planters dug […]
Read MoreAnother 4,000 Trees Planted for the Young People’s Forest
December 2021
On Thursday 25th November, Premier teamed up with some of their customers, Sylvamo, Link Publishing, the Outdoor Guide and CBBC presenter Gemma Hunt to brave the cold and plant saplings with the Woodland Trust, at the Young People’s Forest in Mead, Derbyshire. Guests from around the UK, from Southampton to Glasgow, travelled to […]
Read MorePremier and Customers Team up to Plant Trees at Kinclaven
March 2020
Grey skies hung over a cold, windy and wet Thursday morning at Kinclaven Bluebell Woods; several miles north of Perth, Scotland. Despite the rain however, spirits were far from dampened as around 80 intrepid Carbon Capture eco-warriors took to the fields, to plant trees with the Woodland Trust. On Thursday 12th March Premier Paper joined […]
Read MorePremier Return to Pullabrook Woods
March 2020
For the fifth year in a row Premier Paper, their customers and the Woodland Trust returned to Pullabrook Wood on Dartmoor; to plant and maintain native woodland in the area. Thursday 27th February 2020, despite the cold start and the threat of bad weather, around 40 people met at 9am in Pullabrook Woods for some […]
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