The Giving Tree - your generosity continues, so thank you

Our charitable organisation, The Giving Tree, formed in the middle of the pandemic in spring 2022, aims to help not-forprofit community projects in and around our East Anglian pubs.

Thanks to our team, and the goodwill and generosity of local businesses and guests, we have achieved some incredible fundraising efforts which has helped to raise over £100,000 for local causes.

At the beginning of the pandemic our chefs cooked and delivered over 30,000 free meals for NHS workers and local communities, and more recently our team members completed a Cycle Safari - four days, 15 pubs and over 500km of cycling - for Norfolk Community Foundation.

Throughout December 2022 we committed to fundraising for East Anglian Children’s Hospices, who provide specialist care for children and young people with life threatening conditions. EACH have hospices in three of the four counties where our pubs are situated and offer many different types of care for young people, as well as providing a safe and supportive environment for their families. With the help of our generous guests and Bury St Edmunds Round Table, we raised over £10,000. The fundraising included adding £1 onto bills in the month of December and some of our

Spokes people: Over the last year Chestnut has donated over £15,000 worth of prizes to local raffles and charity auctions

‘elves and snowmen’ joined Santa's Sleigh while it toured around Risby and Barrow, finishing at The Weeping Willow, to meet lots of local children to hear their Christmas wishes. This year we’re excited to be continuing our

Giving Tree fundraising. Firstly, with a small team from our office taking on the Yorkshire Three Peak Challenge in aid of Break, who make a huge difference to the lives of children and young people living in, or leaving care.

Later in the year, we will be undertaking another Cycle Safari. Being our ten-year anniversary, we hope for this to be an even bigger event than the last, which in itself raised over £21,000.