Acorn Fund - thank you for your support!

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Think of a number and multiply it by ten. This could be the value of your gift to local wildlife.

It might sound too good to be true, but your donation really is key to unlocking funding worth thousands of pounds that could make a huge difference to local wildlife.

For example, if you give £10, it could release up to £100 – it’s as simple as that.

How can this be?

Landfill site operators pay a tax when they bury waste.  Some of this money goes into the Landfill Communities Fund and can be used for projects that benefit the environment.  We can apply for this money to help fund vital nature conservation work, but only if supporters provide at least 10% of the total funds needed to release a grant.

From tiny acorns mighty oak trees grow

In 2015 we launched our Acorn Fund – a pot of money allocated specifically to help release funds from the Landfill Communities Fund. Over the last 8 years, we have been drawing on this fund to provide the 10% required to unlock grants worth ten times more.  Wildlife across our three counties has already been helped in so many ways. This pot is now almost empty and needs topping up if we are to continue to apply for funding from the Landfill Communities Fund.

Can you contribute to our Acorn Fund and help unlock ten times more funding for wildlife?

What has the Acorn Fund helped previously?

Yellow oxlips flowering among purply-blue bluebells

Oxlips in Hayley Wood by Pete Johnstone, PJ Elements

Hayley Wood

The rare oxlip is abundant, along with other spring flowers, at this beautiful Cambridgeshire woodland. A grant from Amey Community Fund helped us establish two acres of new coppice plots to give the oxlip a boost, and maintain the balance between clear areas, saplings and mature trees that is great for all woodland wildlife.

A lush-looking woodland with greenery growing at the base of trees

Flitwick Moor by Brian Eversham

Flitwick Moor

Flitwick Moor in Bedfordshire is a wonderful mosaic of wet woodland, peat mire and meadow, with rust -coloured iron-rich springs and an unexpectedly primeval vegetation of ferns and mosses. The path through Folly Wood was suffering erosion and widening as people avoided muddy sections. A generous grant from Veolia Environmental Trust helped install a boardwalk to make the reserve more accessible to everyone and protect the delicate flora.

We have a number of applications ready to put forward to the Landfill Communities Fund to make big differences to our reserves across our three counties.

Can you help fund the 10% needed to unlock ten times more money for wildlife? 

 

We will use the data supplied to process and record your donation. Your donation will be used to make a Contributing Third Party (CTP) payment to a landfill operator to secure a grant through the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF). For auditing purposes, the LCF may require us to supply them with your details. At no point will they ‘own’ your data and any information supplied by us will be deleted by them on completion of the task in hand. For more details on how we use your data see www.wildlifebcn.org/privacy.

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