Cash aid for vegetables, horses and window panels
Published on: 17 Jan 2012
Three environmental projects in the Lake District – involving horses, windows and vegetable swapping - are to receive nearly £14,000 from the national park authority to help support sustainable community ventures.
The money, from the LDNPA Sustainable Development Fund, will assist work in Staveley, near Kendal; Troutbeck Bridge, near Ambleside; and the Graythwaite estate on the western shores of Windermere.
The fund is expected to allocate a further £40,000 to projects by the end of the current financial year in March, before opening applications in April for its £180,000 of funds for the 2012/13 year.
The recent allocations have been made to:
- Big Onion project in Staveley - £3,920 to help the project establish fortnightly Sunday community afternoon teas where people can buy and support local produce schemes
- British Horse Logging Trust - £5,000 to train an apprentice horseman to work the forests on the Graythwaite estate
- Glaze and Save in Troutbeck Bridge - £5,000 to support a campaign to install secondary window panels in retirement apartments.
National Park Partnerships and Community co-ordinator Clive Wickham said these latest financial awards indicated the wide range of "green" environmental projects the SDF was keen to support.
"I’m sure these grants will be a great assistance to these projects, which each have a unique focus, and I would encourage other kinds of organisations to make similar applications from April. This fund is here to give vital help and support to our local communities, as well as those projects which benefit the wider environment of the Lake District" he added.