Back of envelope this, but … two and a half thousand Generous members times, say, 30 Christmas cards each, makes … 75,000 Christmas cards. All ready to recycle. Here’s how. Take down your cards from the mantelpiece, unpin the drawing pins holding up the string on which they sway below your ceiling, take a final, lingering look at the names of all those people you forgot to drop a card to … and bag them up and head to M&S. Or WH Smith. Or TK Max. Drop your cards into the special bins provided in their stores through January and, in partnership with The Woodland Trust, they’ll be turned into thousands of new trees. There’s a clever little graphic here which explains how it works. And then you’ll have gone Generous so you can tick off this Generous action here.

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