1. 1st Centre Lake, Burnaby Emma Savić Kallesøe
SCOUTREES
1st Centre Lake, Burnaby
Emma Savić Kallesøe
Emma Savic Kallesoe, 4th year Venture with 1st Centre Lake Burnaby
Where would Scouting be without the camps among comforting forests?
Depend on nature—both for enjoyment and survival
Where better to start than within Scouting where youth strive to enjoy and explore nature every day?

2. Why should I be planting trees?
Older youth in Scouting feeling pressured with educational expectations, forests can be a natural stress reliever.
Help with our long term well-being
Smart Living Network article and a similar blog from The Nature Conservancy of Canada showed the positive impact of trees to help reduce depression, anxiety and stress hormones

3. The environment could sure use the help...
How forests are crucial to the existence of life
We rely on forests as a natural resource for fuel, construction, and space. Wood and forest space are in high demand
Live Science has provided statistics showing that half the world’s tropical forests have been cleared and that deforestation causes 15 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.

4. Fine, I’ll plant some trees. But how do I do that in my group?
So I’ve convinced you. We need to plant some trees
Scouting has a fundraiser just for that!
Scoutrees projects in the Scouting year have raised over $ and planted 14,642 trees
Many resources online to help you start your own Scoutrees event

5. scouts.ca ￫ Scouters ￫ Scoutrees Fundraiser
STEP 1: Register for Scoutrees
STEP 2: Decide where to plant your trees
STEP 3: Plan your fundraising efforts
STEP 4: Complete the Fundraising Report
STEP 5: Share Stories & Pictures!
Easy steps to follow from scouts.ca.
STEP 1 – Register for Scoutrees
Get your group pumped to plant some trees
Great activity covering the Citizenship, Environment, and Outdoors Program Area
Perfect opportunity to earn your World Conservation Award
Order fundraising kits and crests
STEP 2 - Decide where you are going to plant your trees
Different municipalities have different regulations for public parks and forested areas
Give yourself a few months in the planning process to contact parks services for permission
Other possible areas could be schoolyards, or landowner sites
STEP 3 - Plan your fundraising efforts
In the fundraising kit: pledge forms, charitable tax receipts and posters, also on scouts.ca
You can book Scouts Canada banners, tents, popcorn machines and marketing material from the local Scout office
Sourcing the trees comes from the funds your group collects and your local greenhouses
Some communities even offer free seedlings to non-profit organizations
Research your area
STEP 4 – Completing the Scoutrees Fundraising Report
Send in a report along with a cheque for the 15% to go to the Canadian Scouting Brotherhood Fund
STEP 5 - Share Stories and Pictures!
Contact your local YSP’s
Spreads the potential for a positive impact amongst other Scout groups.

6. May seem unachievable, but you’re looking at living proof it can be done.
Ventures and Scouts in my group, 1st Centre Lake
Our motivation came from the drive to find a service project to use for our old Queen’s Venture Program: complete a 1 ton challenge, we needed to do and think greener and smarter.
Along with planting trees, we did a stream clean-up, collected batteries (2 5 gallon buckets worth) and did our usual Bottle Drive
Bought 100 saplings for a dollar each from a fellow Cub Leader, also an arborist, and pledged them for two dollars
Our pledges paid for the saplings
Our contact was John at the Linnaeia plant nursery in Langley, if that helps you with finding any of your saplings
90 of the saplings survived after watering them and waiting till the spring to plant them, 3 months later.
We planted them around Robert Burnaby Park
Douglas fir and Sitka Spruce saplings with the rest of the group
Sent a cheque with the remaining money to the Scout House to make our donation to the Scouting Brotherhood Fund
Learned to love our environment from the early stages of Scouting, when I planted flowers in painted pots in Beavers, to earning my first World Conservation badge in Cubs, to today, speaking on a panel about Scoutrees
The activity pays for itself so not a big money maker but perfect for experience in nature and social skills to sell
An opportunity to start motivating older youth in your groups to try run a fundraiser and see what goes into running projects like this
Information and planning is already done online
Trail Cards, Frequent Questions and Scouters’ Tip pages

7. Thank you!
Take the extra step through Scouting to not only hug a tree but plant a tree
Give a little love is to our Earth and beloved campgrounds
Planning Area event for older youth to do Scout Trees