Our Partnerships

All our activities and events at The House of Tree are non-profit, raising money for local and international charities. (All events are run through Chrysalis Arts Trust a charity set up in 1994 (Reg no: 1049294).

Alongside our own events, we work in partnership with local charities with a similar ethos to our own.

This includes Root and Branch Change, who bring together volunteers every Tuesday to run our community garden featuring a micro-nursery, lavender field, fledgling orchard. After a hard morning gardening out in the open air or in the polytunnel, volunteers join us afterwards in our café, The Branch, for a well-earned coffee and cake.

The volunteer team nurture drought-resistant plants which are sold at seasonal plant sales to raise funds to transform the lives of children in Munsieville, believed to be the oldest, undeveloped, township in South Africa. Its inhabitants live in grinding poverty without running water, sanitation or power and its children face unimaginable deprivation, neglect and abandonment often forced to scavenge the violence-filled streets for food. All funds raised through Root and Branch Change go towards providing a network of safe houses and child champions, supported by South African churches.

To find out more about volunteering opportunities with Root and Branch Change, click here.

We also have links with Stony Dean school, which supports and inspires secondary school aged children with complex needs, a number of whom are now helping out in our community garden and have welcomed Chesham’s Theatre Shed theatre company which works with children with learning difficulties to put on memorable drama performances.