Joining forces with the environmental charity means Hays staff across the UK&I can donate hundreds of trees per month to the charity to plant in cities across the UK & Ireland. The partnership also provides staff members the opportunity to use their ‘Hays Helps’ volunteering time to support Trees for Cities projects by planting trees, pruning edible playgrounds in schools, and supporting local community gardens and projects.

So far, nearly 40 Hays staff have taken part in tree-planting days as part of the Hays Helps initiative in Blackpool, Hull, Ramsgate, East London and Edinburgh, a company statement said. 

The partnership comes after Hays became a carbon neutral business at the end of 2021 and announced earlier this month that its targets for carbon reduction have been approved by the Science-based Targets initiative (SBTi) – an important milestone in towards its commitment to reach net zero.

Karen Young, a director at Hays, said: “Playing our part to safeguard the natural environment in which we both live and work is one of our key strategic priorities, as part of our Hays Helps global programme of work.

“So far in the new partnership for UK&I we’ve collectively donated 8,000 trees for planting – with plenty more to come!” Young said.

In nearly 30 years, with over 1m trees planted, Trees for Cities works throughout the UK and around the world to improve lives by creating greener cities through planting urban trees. A key focus of the project work is educating the community, using a holistic approach to raise awareness about sustainability, social mobility, community cohesion, education and health initiatives.

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