Katy Treverton Author

Katy Treverton has lived in Southend-on-Sea all her life. She works with young children and, as someone who appreciates how incredible and how important our natural world is, is passionate about passing this on to the next generation.

She has always appreciated the grand London Plane Tree tucked behind the Highstreet between shops, roads and carparks in her hometown and was devastated to learn that this may be removed by the council, since it takes up pavement space.

This prompted her to get involved in saving this wonderful 150-year-old tree and decided to combine this with educating children on how valuable our mature trees are, particularly in urban areas which have very little greenery or nature left.