The Directors of the Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields greatly appreciate the financial and practical support and advice received from our sponsoring residents’ associations and from other organisations, trusts and charities, and individuals.
Residents’ Associations:
- Alexandra Park Friends
- Bear Flat Association
- Greenway Lane Area Residents’ Forum
- Greenway Lane Social Committee
- Widcombe Association
Organisations, Trusts and Charities:
- Bathscape
- The Raby Family Trust
- Bath in Bloom
- The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)
- The Woodland Trust
- More Trees BANES
- National Trust
- Bath Natural History Society
- Earthwatch
- Rake Up and Grow
- Widcombe Infants and Junior schools
- Individuals
- Many thanks are also owed to those who have generously donated privately, either financially or with saplings or other equipment, prior to the introduction of the Localgiving facility on this website.
- Localgiving:
- We are most grateful for the individual donations received via the ‘Donate’ button on the home page of our website. All of these funds are being invested to continue our volunteers’ work managing our Wild Hilltop Paradise.
- Volunteers
- None of our achievements would however have been possible without the time and energy of our many volunteers, whose inputs to date now equate to nearly 6,000 hours.
- Funding by Bathscape
- We have now received a total of nine grants from Bathscape, to pay for specific projects. Bathscape www.bathscape.co.uk is a partnership between Bath & NE Somerset Council and various other bodies whose shared ambition is “to address threats faced by the beautiful natural landscape surrounding Bath, and to better recognise its value to the health and wellbeing of all people in the city”.
- We were in discussion with Dan Merrett, Bathscape’s Manager, from early in the development of our plans for FLHF. The grants have paid for:
- 30 tonnes of stone for improvement of the designated public footpaths;
- A petrol-driven scythe mower;
- A battery-powered rotary mower;
- Various other tools and equipment;
- A secure shed for equipment storage;
- A lockable glazed information board, located near the Greenway Lane gate;
- Cowslip plants;
- The materials for the bird boxes and bat boxes which have been assembled and installed in trees around the site;
- Materials for six simple benches, located at viewpoints in the Fields;
- FLHF is extremely pleased to be awarded these grants, noting also the input and support from Bath & NE Somerset Council who are providing matched funding for some of Bathscape’s projects. Bathscape’s principal source of funds is the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
- Dan Merrett said “a key factor in the award of these grants has been the convergence between Bathscape’s and FLHF’s vision and objectives, and the commitment evident in the fantastic work undertaken by FLHF’s volunteer workforce since the launch of FLHF”.
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