Christmas Tree Collection & Recycling

Our Christmas tree collection bookings are now closed

From Friday 16 January 2026, and for a busy few days afterwards, a small army of Wirral Hospice St John’s volunteers, eager to work off their festive feasting, will be buzzing all around Wirral picking up used REAL Christmas trees from outside people’s homes and businesses.

Wirral postcodes we collect from:
CH41, CH42, CH43, CH44, CH45, CH46, CH47, CH48, CH49, CH60, CH61, CH62, CH63, CH64

Please see this map of other charity Christmas tree collections, if you are from OUTSIDE of the above postcode areas (map created by East Cheshire Hospice).
MAP TO BE ADDED ONCE RECEIVED FROM EAST CHESHIRE

We are kindly asking for donations in exchange for collecting trees:

Suggested donation per tree:
£10 4ft
£15 5ft
£20 6ft
£25 7ft
£30 8ft+

Examples of what your donations help with:
£10 = contributes towards food for one patient for a day
£15 = contributes towards specialist palliative nursing care
£20 = contributes towards physiotherapy for a patient
£25 = contributes towards bereavement support for loved ones
£30 = contributes towards hospice at home support visits

We collect MASSIVE Christmas trees
We collect SMALL trees
We collect more than ONE tree at some houses
We even pick up trees that have been left in gardens for a looong time!
We have BIG vans out collecting trees
We also have SMALL vans out
We give 100% to squeezing as many trees as possible into vans to be fuel-efficient
We collect THOUSANDS of trees every year
We have around 40 vans out with more than 100 volunteers collecting trees

Why do we love Christmas trees so much? Well, it’s because trees equals donations for our special hospice care.

Your generosity when booking trees helps us to provide care and support for Wirral patients and their loved ones. Thank you

We are supported by MANY local businesses who help collect trees and those who turn trees into chippings and biofuel.

On the days of the collections, large vans, many of which have been lent to the hospice, are sent everywhere around Wirral. One person will take the wheel and navigate a pre-planned postcode route, while one or two crew members will pick up the tree from each address and load it onto the back of the van.

Once each van is fully loaded, it’s driven to various pre-arranged temporary ‘drop-sites’ around Wirral to offload for chipping, then it’s back on the road heading out for the next load. The chipped trees have further recycled uses, maybe in biofuel or even spread around at community farms and paddocks.

All the people who give their valuable time are well fed and watered while fuel costs are offered to everyone who volunteers the use of their van(s).

Elaine Connell, Wirral Hospice St John’s fundraising officer, says:

“People from all over Wirral really get behind our Christmas tree collection campaign. We know it’s a lot of fun for our hardy volunteers who come back year after year. We’re extremely grateful to everyone who supports Wirral Hospice St John’s, including all those who give up their valuable time and the use of their vehicles to help with the collections and, of course, all those people who make their generous donations for us to pick up their used real Christmas trees.

We’re also very grateful to those organisations who lend a hand, equipment or valuable drop-off space.”