Lottery Heritage fund supports Landscapes project
Last Updated: Thursday 24th September 2020, 15:48
The National Lottery Heritage fund is to pay to protect and improve ten landscapes around the UK. The areas up for grants are well known and visited spots around the UK and your lottery cash will make a big difference in improving the areas in conjunction with the Landscape Partnership programme.
Over the past six years the Heritage Lottery Fund has paid out more than £72 million in support for 45 landscapes around the UK such as Orkney’s Scapa Flow and the Needles in the Isle of Wight. Now a further ten grants are to be paid by the lottery good causes fund to the Landscape Partnership Programme to help conserve the areas around the UK. The landscapes up for grants are:
- The White Cliffs of Dover – To receive a £1.6 million grant for conservation work
- The Mid Tees Valley –To receive £1.9 million for the 10,000ha area of the mid Tess Valley for a five-year conservation project
- Druridge Bay, Northumberland – To receive £1,8 million to conserve the natural features of the landscape from coastal erosion
- The Belfast Hills – To receive £1.2 million to improve the upland landscape of the area surrounding Belfast
- Staffordshire Moorlands – To receive £1.9 million to improve land links and transport links in the Churnet Valley
- Meres and Mosses – This area in North Shropshire and South Cheshire is to receive £1 million of funding to conserve the area
- Clyde and Avon Valleys woodlands and shrubs – To receive £2 million to conserve the rivers and gorgeous in the Clyde and Avon Valleys
- Avalon Marshes, Somerset – To receive £1.8 million for the four national nature reserves in Somerset
- The Solway Plain, Cumbria – To receive £1.9 million to protect and conserve the archaeological features and rare habitat in the Solway Plain
- Mourne Area of outstanding natural beauty – Mourne in County Down is to receive £1.6 million to conserve the area and protect rare species
This money for good causes, from the sale of lottery tickets will make a huge difference to these areas and make it possible for people to enjoy them for years to come.
