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Greenwich Peninsula Ecology
Park outdoor classroom

This exciting project at this key site in London
will provide an accessible, eco-friendly
classroom, event space and new pond dipping
platform, allowing us to expand the schools
education programme and deliver more family
and community events year-round. Grants from
Postcode Local Trust for £20,000 and Veolia
Environmental Trust for £50,000 (through the
Landfill Communities Fund) have brought us
nearer to our fundraising target and we hope
to see works start on site by winter 2017.

Port Sunlight River Park Other successes

We have been successful in a Stage One Across our sites, fundraising activities are also undertaken with our Managing Partners,
application to Heritage Lottery Fund to site users and other stakeholders raising money and contributing to Land Trust
develop a major project to enhance visitor sites. While this is not reflected in our accounts, it helps the delivery of our charitable
facilities at Port Sunlight River Park. This outcomes, provides ‘match’ funding for wider projects, and delivers great benefits on
will involve the refurbishment of a building, the ground. This year a partnership with Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council means
overlooking the River Mersey, to create a that Port Sunlight River Park has benefited from a new £200,000 bridge crossing the
heritage visitor centre, including a flexible River Dibben. The bridge will significantly improve pedestrian access to the site, which
exhibition space, a café and outdoor will be further developed through the wider Port Sunlight River Park HLF project.
seating area and offices. The project
will also involve putting in a new path
network linking the park with the nearby THANKS TO ALL OUR MANAGING PARTNERS,
Old Courthouse archaeological site. The
new facilities will provide opportunities FRIENDS GROUPS, VOLUNTEERS AND VISITORS
for education, community group activities
and to learn about the fascinating FOR ALL THEIR WORK THROUGHOUT THE
history of the local area. The grant of YEAR IN RAISING ADDITIONAL INCOME AND
£35,500 will allow us to work closely with
our partners Autism Together and Big CARRYING OUT IMPROVEMENTS ACROSS THE
Heritage, to develop the full Stage Two
application for submission later this year. LAND TRUST’S SITES.

Fundraising and grants

The following table shows the main fundraising and grant income received for environmental and community projects over this year.

Supported by Site/Project £
Basingstoke & Deane Local Infrastructure Fund Park Prewett (The Spinney Trail) 183,600

Heritage Lottery Fund Port Sunlight River Park 35,500
Postcode Local Trust Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park 20,000
Tesco Bags of Help Avenue Washlands 12,000

Tesco Bags of Help Beam Parklands 12,000
Tesco Bags of Help Northumberlandia 12,000
Tesco Bags of Help Rabbit Ings 8,000

The Veolia Environmental Trust Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park 50,000
WREN Warrington - Anderson Close Hippo Play Area 47,150
Higher Level Stewardship* Various 23,918

English Woodland Grants Scheme* Various 11,205
Single Farm Payments* Various 91,749
*Statutory Grant

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