Shooting Star Children’s Hospices is thrilled to announce the return of their Christmas tree collection service. This January, in exchange for a donation, they will collect your real Christmas tree, take it away and recycle it. All funds raised will help support local families who have a baby, child or young person with a life-limiting condition, or who have been bereaved.
Working in partnership with JustHelping, a UK charity who aim to empower communities to raise money for local causes, Shooting Star Children’s Hospices will receive 90% of money raised, with the other 10% distributed to other local charities.
What’s more, as well as supporting local families, you will be helping the environment. This year, the charity is putting even more focus on sustainability. Recycling and chipping your real Christmas tree with Shooting Star, will reduce its carbon footprint by up to 80% – not to mention saving you time, hassle and mess – so you can start year new year needle free! Last year, Shooting Star collected 775 trees which in turn saved over 12,500kg of C02 emissions.
Trees will be recycled into environmentally friendly compost by Merrist Wood College for the Guildford-based collection. For the Hampton-based collection, trees will be chipped sustainably by our other partner, The Tree Agency.
Operating within a radius of Merrist Wood College in Worplesdon and Shooting Star House in Hampton, the charity’s volunteer elves will collect trees from 24 postcodes in the GU, TW and KT area between Monday 12th to Tuesday 13th January 2026. All you need to do is sign up and register your tree before midnight on Wednesday 7th January 2026.
Sponsoring the collection for the second-year running is Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. They shared, “At Ridge, we’re always looking for meaningful ways to create lasting, positive change in the communities where we live and work. We’re humbled by the incredible work that Shooting Star do to bring light and comfort to families in their darkest hours, and we’re proud to support their Christmas tree collection for a second-year running. It’s a privilege to help ensure the continued success of this initiative and contribute to the charity’s vital work with local families.”
Corporate Relationship Manager at Shooting Star, Ellie Constable said, “We’re thrilled to announce the return of our Christmas tree collection service for its fourth year and hope this year will be even bigger and better, raising even more money to help the families we support. As well as a huge thank you to our main sponsors Ridge, we are delighted to have a wealth of volunteers once again from corporate supporters including SKY, Kier Highways, Ellis Wines, Balfour Beatty, Hill Group, Burbeck Interiors, Galliford Try and Drainline. By signing up and giving a donation for the collection, you’ll directly help bring comfort and joy to local families across Surrey and south-west London and north-west London, all while helping the environment and saving the hassle and fuss of disposing of your real tree – what’s not to like!”
Postcodes covered:
TW1, TW2, TW9, TW10, TW11, TW12, TW13, TW16, TW17, GU1, GU2, GU3, GU4, GU5, GU6, GU7, GU8, GU12, GU21, GU22, GU23, GU24, KT14 and KT16
