Take the hassle out of disposing of your Christmas tree. Book to have it collected and recycled by your local hospice.
Take the hassle out of disposing of your real tree after Christmas!
Doing something tree-mendous this Christmas is as easy as one, two, TREE:
🎄 1. Support Birmingham Hospice and book in your tree collection
🎄 2. Our volunteers will come and collect your tree between Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 January 2027
🎄 3. Your tree will be chipped and re-used, saving it from going to landfill
Please leave your tree out on the evening of Friday 8 January 2027.
If your tree is in one of these postcode areas, we'll collect it
B13, B14, B15, B16, B17, B23, B24, B25, B26, B27, B28, B29, B30, B31, B32, B33, B34, B35, B36, B37, B38, B42, B43, B44, B45, B46, B47, B62, B67, B68, B72, B73, B74, B75, B76, B90, B91, B92, B93, B94
You’ll be helping local people this Christmas:
Book Treecycling today and, with your donation can provide specialist palliative and end of life care and support to local people living with a terminal illness.
£20 could pay for Christmas dinners for two people in our Inpatient Units.
£30 could pay for pain relief medication for patients across our services each day. This could be the difference between people dying in pain or dying in comfort.
£60 could pay for a specialist bereavement support session to help families through the journey of grief.
Got a Query?
For more information or queries, please contact the Treecycling Team on treecycling@birminghamhospice.org.uk or call 0121 752 6150.
If you are having problems booking in your collection do let us know by using the button below
Birmingham Hospice holds Lower Tier and Upper Tier waste carrier licences, which can be found here.
Volunteer with us!
Volunteers are vital in making Treecycling happen! We are on the lookout for incredible people to volunteer and help make a difference for local hospice care.
Volunteer at our collection weekend (9 and 10 January 2027), picking up trees and dropping them at our disposal sites around Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield and Solihull. If you have your own van or flat-bed truck, fantastic! If not, we can provide vehicles for you to drive.
Or, could you help spread the word by posting Treecycling leaflets through letterboxes in the local area in December? We’d love your help
Treecycling FAQs
Thank you so much for supporting Birmingham Hospice by booking your Christmas tree collection.
You should have received a receipt email containing your Treecycling tag and all the information you need to know for the collection weekend. Please check your junk folder if you can’t see this. If you haven’t received your email after 24 hours, please contact the Treecycling Team at treecycling@birminghamhospice.org.uk and we can check your booking.
On Saturday 9 or Sunday 10 January 2027. We can’t provide an exact time or day when your tree will be collected, so please put your tree outside on the evening of Friday 8 January. Our volunteers will start very early on Saturday morning and will pick up your tree at some point before 4pm on Sunday 11 January.
If adverse weather conditions affect our plans, we will collect trees during the week beginning Monday 12 January 2026. No matter what, we are committed to collecting your tree.
We kindly request that your tree is placed in a highly visible, safe location and:
- Make sure you have attached your tag to your tree.
- Make sure your tree is visible to our volunteer collectors.
- Don’t block the pavement or cause access issues.
- Our volunteers cannot enter your property (house, garden, shed) under any circumstance.
- Please don’t use plastic (e.g., cable ties or plastic wallets) to attach your tag to your tree. These aren’t recyclable and take our volunteers time to remove.
Unfortunately, we would be unable to return to collect trees that have not been put out on time.
We therefore ask that you place your tree outside on the evening of Friday 8 January 2027, in a clearly visible place to reduce the risk of your tree being missed by one of our volunteers.
In the following postcode areas: B13, B14, B15, B16, B17, B23, B23, B24, B26, B27, B28, B29, B30, B31, B32, B33, B34, B35, B36, B38, B42, B43, B44, B45, B46, B47, B62, B67, B68, B72, B73, B74, B75, B76, B90, B91, B92, B93, B94
We can pick up multiple trees from one location, if those trees belong to one household, who have booked to have their tree collected by our team. We will only collect the stated number of trees at any one address quoted on the booking form.
We can collect any Christmas trees that are up to 10ft in height. If you do have a tree over 6ft and are able to saw it in half, that would be appreciated and useful for our tree collectors. Should your tree be taller than 10ft, we ask that you call the hospice in advance to advise us so we can make the necessary arrangements.
If you put your tree out on time and it has not been collected by 4pm on Sunday 10 January, please contact us by either calling 0121 752 6150 or emailing treecycling@birminghamhospice.org.uk and we will arrange an alternative collection. Please ensure that you received a booking confirmation as we will only collect trees booked through our booking form.
Thanks to the support of Acorn Environmental Management Group, we will be disposing of your real Christmas trees in an eco-friendly way. Your tree will be chipped and used to create biofuel for our local community.
We are all more conscious of how our actions affect our environment and we can all play our part in supporting environmentally friendly initiatives to reduce waste. Your tree will be used to create biofuel for our local community. You are playing an important role in waste reduction and donating to a local charity. It’s a win–win for everyone!
Birmingham Hospice provides specialist end of life care for local people living with a terminal diagnosis, and for their families. Our mission is to give patients and their families precious time together at the end of life to make lasting memories. By donating when you book in your tree, you will be helping us to go the extra mile for our patients and their families. You can find out more about how your support helps here.
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