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YEAR MAKES The Peak District National Park Foundation celebrates 12 months as a registered charity – working hard to build support while funding its first projects.
How time flies!
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t’s been a busy first year for the Peak District National Park Foundation and already local projects are benefitting from funds raised through the charity’s #70kfor70 campaign. The campaign aims to raise £70,000 ahead of the Peak District National Park’s 70th birthday in April 2021. Foundation chair Jen Lowthrop says: “What a great start! I am so pleased with how our first year has gone. We’re just over half way to our #70kfor70 target and have already started to give funds to local projects. “I’d like to thank everyone who bought a
ticket for our Christmas raffle, which raised almost £2,000. A special thanks, too, to local businesses who donated some incredible prizes! “Every penny of the money raised for #70kfor70 is going right back into projects to support our beautiful Peak District, so I urge you to spread the word, donate or get in touch if you’ve got an idea for a fundraising campaign. We’ve already got new projects, campaigns and celebrations underway for 2021, our 70th year as a National Park... so watch this space!” Find out more at www.peakdistrictfoundation.org.uk
#70kfor70 will support a range of projects which care for the Peak District and help to make it a National Park for everyone. Projects include: • Peak District National Park Junior Rangers • Moors for the Future Partnership • South West Peak habitat restoration • Miles Without Stiles accessible routes • Conservation work on the Monsal, High Peak and Tissington trails • Stanage North Lees landscape conservation • Peak District Mosaic and Accessible Derbyshire • Peak District Health Walks
First projects receive funding Wildlife, hedgerow conservation and hydro electricity projects are the first to benefit from funds through the Peak District National Park Foundation. Grants have been awarded through the Foundation’s #70kfor70 campaign. The Fairer for Nature gardening project in Buxton received £2,043 to encourage young people to improve their own – and other people’s – gardens for wildlife.
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Pinders Meadow charity in Hope was awarded £671 towards the cost of planting 300 mixed hedging plants to restore and enhance hedgerow and to provide nesting sites and food sources for birds. Meanwhile, Bradwell Hydro Project was awarded £500, helping it to refurbish, upgrade and extend its waterpowered Christmas lights. The project works in conjunction with Bradwell Junior
School, teaching children about renewable energy and sustainable power sources. The South West Peak Landscape Partnership also received a grant of £2,500 from a generous donor, via the Foundation, to support the Elkstonian Society’s project to upgrade its village website and digitise archive material about the history of village life.
