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Lottery Funding: Awards for All
Aims of the project as expressed in the application
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The Project will extend participation by actively recruiting new volunteers. It will also encourage landowners to become involved.
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It increases skills by offering training to volunteers who will also build up practical knowledge.
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It improves quality of life by ensuring Whitchurch remains a water vole stronghold and local people have a better understanding of this animal
£4050 was allocated to the Project for use in:
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Training volunteers
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Survey equipment
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Seminars
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Water vole trail guide
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Public events
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Digital mapping
Individuals -
Viv Geen of Shropshire Wildlife Trust and
Clive Dean of
Shropshire County Council Conservation and Ranger Team.
Shropshire Biodiversity Partnership
who provided the funding for the initial training day on
2nd April 2006.
The Bernard Sunley Trust Endangered Species Fund -
£3500 to support habitat improvement works on 5 or 6 sites identified from the survey work
Natural England -
£1685 to extend the habitat improvement work at Mossfields.
Clive Tate Memorial Fund -
£200 to complete a new pond adjacent to the brook at Greenfields Nature Reserve.
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