“We feel the whole scheme is very meaningful and everyone has been extremely caring and supportive”

“The team’s presence and consideration made a very sad and emotional occasion into a beautiful and memorable one, for which we are truly grateful”

“The ceremony conducted at Dovestone had more meaning and dignity than anything else we could have done for my Dad”

“We now have a very special place to visit, a beautiful spot for quiet reflection. To look upward to a tree in bud, with the hills beyond gives us a feeling of hope and the opportunity to move on”

“It will now always be Dad’s special place and in the hectic pace of life today I shall make time to visit regularly and spend some quiet time with him. Knowing he is at peace and in his final resting place is helping me to come to terms with his loss”

“We have found that at the moments of deepest grief, the existence of his living, breathing tree, to be most comforting and reassuring….his ashes are in the roots but he is most definitely in the branches reaching skywards”

“I love having a special place to go where I can spend time thinking things over. Somehow worries and problems don’t seem as important after an hour or two in the peace and quiet of the site and things fall into perspective”

“Comment made by the Minister for the Enviroment - " I am more than happy to provide an endorsement for Life For A Life. The idea of the scheme is a profound one. A tree symbolises life. Forests literally keep us alive. Planting a tree to commemorate the life of a loved one brings consolation and perpetuous not jus a memory but life itself " - Phil Woolas MP”