Environment – £842,000 distributed in 32 grants
Grants of £100,000 were provided to Painshill Park Trust, the Woodland Trust and the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust. In last fifteen years Painshill Park has researched and restored its 18th century landscape and visitor facilities have been provided, including a purpose built education centre. The final stage of the programme of restoration, the ornamental buildings (“follies”), is now under way and the Trustees have agreed to help to complete this work. The grant to the Woodland Trust is towards the cost of purchasing an extension to Elemore Woods together with undertaking a three year programme of tree-planting, conservation work, community engagement and public access works.
£50,000 is provided to the Father Thames Trust for the restoration and conservation of the various historic gardens and public spaces along the river.
The Tree Council was granted £20,000 towards its Tree Warden scheme and The Little Ouse Headwaters Project £10,000 for restoration of grazed wet fen and wet meadow. A similar amount was also provided to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for helping to reintroduce the Red Kite into Northern Ireland.
