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Dear <<Salutaion>>
Here at Wildlife Trust BCN, we call this our Acorn Fund; it helps us to plan for the times ahead for when we know this additional funding will be needed to unlock a grant. And, just one gift can release 10 times the amount donated, similar to a tiny acorn becoming a mighty oak. For example, if you give £10 it could release up to £100 from the Fund – 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. The Wildlife Trust can bid for this money to help fund our vital nature conservation work – but only if supporters provide at least 10% of the total funds needed to release a grant. We are asking you to help us today to unlock this money by donating to the Acorn Fund, giving us the initial 10 per cent we need to pay the Landfill operator to release the grant.
Background image: Oak tree by Amy Lewis
Think of a sum and multiply it by ten. This could be the value of your gift to local wildlife today! It might sound too good to be true, but your donation really is key to unlocking a treasure trove of additional funding worth thousands of pounds that could make a huge difference to local wildlife.
Ten times better for wildlife Wildlife across our three counties has already been helped in so many ways using the Landfill Communities Funding unlocked by our Acorn Fund donations. In the last 12 months: nC oopers Hill in Bedfordshire has been transformed and overgrown bracken has been cleared to create a vibrant purple heathland where common lizards bask in the sun and marsh violet, a flower that is extinct across the rest of the county, can survive
nS kylarks and meadow pipits are making the grassland of Cambourne Nature Reserve in Cambridgeshire their home following improvements to pathways and visitor areas which have helped ensure nesting birds are undisturbed continued over...
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Your support will fund vital work across the three counties. Some part/all of your donations could be used to make a Contributing Third Party (CTP) payment to a landfill operator to secure a grant through the Landfill Communities Fund.
Help local wildlife even more I am a UK taxpayer and I would like all donations made to the Wildlife Trust in the last four years and in future to be treated as Gift Aid donations. I confirm I have paid or will pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax for each tax year that is at least equal to the amount of tax that all the charities or Community Amateur Sports Clubs that I donate to will reclaim on my gifts for that tax year (other taxes such as VAT and Council Tax do not qualify). I understand the Wildlife Trust will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 that I give and this may be used for any of the Trust’s work.
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Hazel dormouse by Ian Pratt
nN ightingales, lesser spotted woodpeckers and white admiral butterflies are just some of the many species benefitting from the restoration of seven woodland nature reserves in Northamptonshire
So much more to do
We hope to move forward with a number of critical conservation projects to protect local wildlife that could benefit from Landfill Communities Funding, but this will only happen if we find the 10% funding to release the grant. Please help us secure future grants from the Landfill Communities Fund by making a donation today. With best wishes
Brian Eversham, Chief Executive
Oak seedling by Alan Price
Your gift today will make ten times the difference to… ...common spotted orchids and scarce chaser dragonflies who will benefit from the improvement and restoration of ditches and hedgerows in Northamptonshire
...skylark, common lizard and butterflies such as; small blue and Duke of Burgundy which will benefit from the restoration of fragile pockets of chalk grassland across the three Counties
...the creation of scrapes and islands across the Nene Valley wetlands which will help wintering birds such as lapwing and common tern; by providing places to rest and refuel
...the restoration and sensitive management of vast reedbed and ditch networks at the Great Fen, providing an important refuge for the humble water vole, whose UK population has crashed by 90% since 1989
Four-spotted chaser by Mike Snelle
Common lizard by Mike Snelle
Lapwing by Margaret Holland
Water vole by Tom Marshall
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, The Manor House, Broad Street, Great Cambourne, Cambridge CB23 6DH. Registered in England 2534145. Reg charity no 1000412
Turn your £10 into £100 for wildlife – Donate today! n Post your donation using the form overleaf in the Freepost envelope provided n Call us on n Visit
01954 713543 to make a donation by card
www.wildlifebcn.org/acornfund