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Fundraising Land Trust Annual Review 2018

Our site at
Northumberlandia
continues to thrive

Service Charge

Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
Outdoor Classroom
The new outdoor classroom at Greenwich Northumberlandia
Peninsula Ecology Park is now complete, Our site at Northumberlandia, near Newcastle,
with the final piece of the funding puzzle received a grant of £10,000 from Banks
supplied by Ikea. The company has Community Fund to carry out works to improve
provided £122,000 to carry out a number the entrance and access to the site. This, along
of improvements on the site, including the with other recent grants, has enabled us to
completion of the classroom building. significantly enhance facilities for visitors and
attract more school groups to use the site for
This exciting project in one of the fastest education visits.
growing areas in London will enable our
managing partner TCV to deliver more
educational activities on site, allowing more In-Kind Contributions
children from schools across London to find Across our sites, wider fundraising activities
out about the wildlife and wild spaces on their are also undertaken, with our managing
doorstep. The new flexible space will also partners, site users and other stakeholders
provide a venue for activities and events for contributing in-kind contributions and
people of all ages from across the community raising money for Land Trust sites. While this
to engage with their local green space. income is not reflected in the Land Trust’s
financial accounts, it contributes greatly
Additional funding was received from the to the delivery of our charitable outcomes,
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation; from provides ‘match’ funding for wider projects,
grants received in the previous financial and delivers great benefits on the ground.
year from Postcode Local Trust and Veolia
Environmental Trust (through the Landfill Thanks to all our managing partners, friends
Communities Fund); through generous groups and visitors for all their work throughout
donations from local residents and site users; the year in raising additional income and
and through the fundraising efforts of the carrying out improvements across the Land
Friends of Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park. Trust’s sites.

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