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Seed Appeal
Imagine turning 10p into £1; £10 into
£100; £100 into £1,000...
That’s exactly what we’ve
been doing in recent years to find ways to buy land, improve
nature reserves and deliver education programmes to local children.
For example, in recent years we’ve achieved the following successes:
Avon’s best bluebell woodland was purchased
in 2005 – our members raised £20,000, which levered in a further
£200,000 from Viridor Waste.
This education project to teach schoolchildren
about sustainability and waste was set up in 2006 – our members
donated £4,000 to release a further £40,000 from South Gloucestershire
Environment Body.
Local members raised over £18,000 in match-funding
to buy Weston Big Wood in 1999, which, together with £10,000
from another funder, unlocked £125,000 from the Heritage Lottery
Fund. A further £140,000 was granted in 2005 from the Aggregates
Levy to develop community engagement with the woodland and
improve public access.
More and more of our funding sources
now require match-funding.
Landfill Tax regulations stipulate
that 10% of every award is matched by a donation that is from
outside the charity, and Heritage Lottery Fund requires partnership
funding of 10 - 25%, depending on the size of the award. As we
move towards our thirtieth anniversary in 2010, we have an ambitious
programme of land purchase and development programmes to match-fund,
and we need to raise £40,000 as matched funding towards our 2010
project bids:
Puxton Moor –
land purchase that will extend an existing nature reserve - likely
to be around £150,000 so we will require £15,000
from our funds.
People and Wildlife –
this is our new outreach programme to engage the less advantaged
members of our community, who have not traditionally been involved
with the natural world. HLF have funded 90%, and around £150,000,
and so we still need £16,000 pa.
Brown’s Folly –
an urgent limestone grassland restoration project will require
£93,000 over 3 years. This project involves capital works (fencing & stock
control, water supply improvements, scrub clearance), monitoring,
new interpretation and community initiatives. We are applying
for a Landfill Tax fund, and so we will need to contribute £9,000.
Can you help make sure
that the Trust’s thirtieth anniversary is a year to remember
by helping us to build up a Seed Fund to make these projects
happen?
How you can help
We need to raise £40,000 as matched funding
towards our project bids for 2010.
Please
help us to unlock this funding by donating to our Seed Fund -
where every acorn grows into an oak tree!
Donate online
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through the Paypal website. Please
fill out this brief form to continue.
Donate by post
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complete and print out this
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