Ms Hewitt will help the Woodland Trust create new woods by recycling her Christmas cards at Tesco, Beaumont Leys on Friday 16^th January. Cards are recycled throughout January in bins at WHSmith, Tesco, TK Maxx and Marks & Spencer.

All of the cards collected during the recycling campaign are taken to paper mills where they are recycled into brand new paper products, with money raised helping the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity plant thousands of trees. Last year 73.6 million cards were recycled which enabled the Woodland Trust plant 17,000 trees in some of its 1,000 UK woods.

Patricia sais that ''this is a fantastic scheme, as it is a very convenient way for people to bring all their Christmas cards to one of the participating stores to be recycled. It is also a great idea that money raised from the sale of the recycled products will go to the Woodland Trust’’.

Since the scheme was founded 12 years ago more than 600 million cards have been recycled which has enabled the charity to plant 140,000 trees.

The Woodland Trust: The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity.  It has 300,000 members and supporters.  The Trust has four key aims: i) No further loss of ancient woodland; ii) Restoring and improving the biodiversity of woods; iii) Increasing new native woodland; iv) Increasing people’s understanding and enjoyment of woodland.

Further news can be found at www.woodland-trust.org.uk