Charitable Trust - Recent Grants

1. Promoting education

The Trustees continue to develop their support for educational projects and the Trust has ensured that many children whose experience of the rural life is limited to books and television programmes are able to learn about and enjoy the real benefits of the countryside. Recent grants include:

A grant for the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust to establish a Wildlife Watch project to teach inner city school children more about the wildlife of the surrounding country
The funds to provide a viewing platform in the milking parlour at the working dairy farm owned by Farms for City Children
An annual grant for the educational trail at the Royal Bath and West Show, which in 2006 taught 9,000 children more about our countryside and about the connection between farming and food

2. Providing improved facilities

Once more, the variety of projects which have received money from the Trust is widespread. Recent projects include:

The improvement of access to the waterside for a club for disabled fishermen in Suffolk
Donation of 60 self-inflating life jackets for the Canal Boat Project which takes disabled passengers on long boats on the canals of Essex
Provision of a trail through a wetland site in Devon to allow wheelchair users full access to a nature reserve
A new pony and its tack for a group of Riding for the Disabled
Provision of The Mark II demonstrator model Wheelyboat for disabled fishermen, launched at Chatsworth Angling Fair (the 16th Wheelyboat the Trust has provided)

3. Training in agriculture, horticulture and conservation

Those who have some form of disability or disadvantage are better helped by training to equip them for an independent life which is as normal as possible. All gardeners know how therapeutic and rewarding the work can be, but it can also be a lifelong and sustaining career for many people for whom some other jobs might not be possible. Sensory gardens can also be havens for those whose senses are impaired or who are seriously ill. Training in horticulture is particularly popular. Recent grants include:

A new glasshouse which allows access for disabled students who are being trained in horticulture
Poultry houses and runs for a farm which gives disabled students a qualification in animal husbandry
An aluminium trailer and cover for a training centre for those with acquired disabilities
Polytunnels, garden tools and machinery, protective clothing and aids to a number of centres which provide training in agriculture, horticulture or conservation for those with a wide variety of physical or learning problems

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