Sustainable Development Fund

Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date 2005/06

A Sense of Place International £10,000 The project will test the opportunities for developing Centre for the the global ecomuseums concept in , through an Uplands action research project in the Northern Uplands of England.

St Oswald’s Way District £10,000 To establish a long distance walk route that forms the Council final side of a square of long distance walks in : the others being St ’s Way, the Pennine Way and Hadrian’s Way. The walk is 100 miles stretching from to Heavenfield in .

Golf and Scenic Tours Not Entirely Sure £ 8,225 The project will allow the applicants to buy a Tours Routemaster Bus to use for golf and scenic tours around North Northumberland. A guide will be available to interpret the history and heritage of the AONB. The ground floor will be adapted so that it is suitable for various users.

Beadnell to Bamburgh and Glororum path – phase 1(a) Northumberland £22,125 Creation of safe road-side walking and cycling route to County Council link the settlements of and Beadnell.

Northumberland Coast Sustainable Access Sustrans £25,000 Improvement Extend the traffic-free shared use path for walkers and cyclists between and Warkworth adjacent to the busy A1068.

Coquet Island CCTV Project Royal Society for £20,000 Installation of a CCTV camera on one of the old light- the Protection of house buildings on will beam live images Birds of nesting to a monitor in Tourist Information Centre (TIC).

Reuse and Recreate In A Rural Setting Berwick Borough £5,000 The project aims to divert waste arising from local Council businesses by the collection of suitable clean waste and DEFERRED passing it on for reuse in young person’s play and arts activities.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date 2006/07

Alnmouth Boathouses Alnmouth Parish £7,575 Commission a feasibility report which will provide Council information about the future development of the £2,000 boathouses.

Historic Landscape Characterisation Project Northumberland £3,750 Preparation of a county-wide Historic Landscape County Council Characterisation. Conservation Team

Repairs / Restoration: Craster Tower Archway Craster Parish £7,000 The Archway is a Grade II Listed Building in need of Council repair. It is the main gateway to the village of Craster. £1,000

Northumberland Coastal Heathlands Projects Northumberland £7,000 NWT intends to complete a full audit of all Coastal Wildlife Trust Heathland sites within the AONB. This will involve surveying all known locations, looking for key indicator species and providing up-to-date species data for each site.

Natural Connections Northumberland £6,000 The project will use education, training, practical Wildlife Trust volunteering, community events and green space £8,000 improvements to increase the engagement of local people and communities with the wildlife and green spaces around them.

Spittal Spa Well Spittal £6,375 Clean, renovate and improve access to the War Improvement Trust Memorial

Improving Beadnell Bay Visitor Facilities - feasibility Berwick upon £5,000 study Tweed Borough To commission independent, expert consultants to assess Council current visitor facilities at Beadnell Bay, and their potential to be developed further.

Harbour Siltation Study Warkworth Harbour £5,000 The project will explore the causation of siltation build Commissioners up within the harbour area/mouth and produce a study recommending long-term solutions.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Alnwick Markets Local Living Ltd £8,103 Investment in the market to make it a vibrant community space that results in social and economic £1,630 benefits.

Walking to Health in Berwick Borough Berwick upon £7,075 Sustain and develop the project of health walks through Tweed Borough the existing weekly walking groups in Berwick, Council Seahouses and Belford.

Forest School Outdoor Learning £3,000 Forest School is an inspirational process that offers in Northumberland children opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through play and hands-on learning experiences in a woodland environment.

Enabling Renewable Energy for Coastal Communities Community £2,500 The aim is to ensure that communities have access to Action quality technical expertise before committing to the Northumberland purchase of renewable energy equipment.

Natural Connections Northumberland £6,000 Support the lease of an MPV vehicle that can carry Wildlife Trust volunteers, participants, tools and materials to events and activities.

Alnwick Markets Local Living Ltd £1,630 To run 4 “Cash from Your Kitchen or Garden or Workshop” sessions at locations in the AONB during the £1,380 period Oct 2006 to Feb 2007

Walking to Health in Berwick Borough Berwick upon £3,555 Sustain and develop the project of health walks through Tweed Borough the existing weekly walking groups in Berwick, Council Seahouses and Belford

Holy Island Discovery Centre Holy Island First £10,000 This project aims to augment visitor facilities on Holy School Island by creating a Discovery Centre that will serve educational and other visiting groups, as well as new and existing community groups on the island.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Explore the DVD Production Northern £5,000 The production of a 90 minute DVD to promote a wider Heritage understanding of the natural/cultural heritage in the Northumberland Coast AONB.

Bellshill Countryside Information Room Renner Farming £5,000 To provide a warm and dry room on the farm to compliment the educational activities already carried out.

Enabling Renewable Energy for Coastal Communities Community £1,500 The aim is to ensure that communities have access to Action quality technical expertise before committing to the Northumberland purchase of renewable energy.

Restoration and Re-use of Dewar’s Lane Granary Berwick upon £10,000 The repair and restoration of an iconic 18th-century Tweed granary building in the historic heart of Berwick-upon- Preservation Tweed and its conversion into a multi-use facility. Trust

Forest School Outdoor Learning £6,000 Continuation of the Forest School pilot, started last year. in Northumberland Information above

Coast and Castles Website Baytree £4,500 A dedicated website for the Coast & Castles cycle route Publishing Ltd and footpath, facilitating sustainable transport in the area

Big Sea Survey Durham Heritage £10,000 OVER This project will engage members of the public through Coast Partnership THREE YEARS a programme of environmental monitoring surveys on intertidal foreshores, locally and regionally.

The Old Smithy, Broxfield Farm David Thompson £3,750 Convert the Old Smithy at Broxfield into a classroom/meeting room.

Northumberland Fire Group Northwoods £2,500 The NFG bought together all the relevant people to establish a network and look at creating an active and involved fire group.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Cultural Development across Berwick Borough Berwick upon £5,000 Provide support for cultural development across the Tweed Borough borough of Berwick upon Tweed over the next two Council years with specific focus on the AONB

St Oswald’s Way Phase II £2,913 St. Oswald’s Way is a 156km long distance walking Council route from Holy Island to Heavenfield, near .

FWAG Awareness Project Farming and £3,600 Provide seven and a half days of advice through Wildlife Advisory workshops, seminars and personal visits within the Group Northumberland Coast AONB that meet the targets within the Action Plan.

Coastal Dune System Moth Survey North East Moth £1,070 The aim of the project is to confirm the continued Group existence of known colonies of the target species and search for new ones in areas previously overlooked.

2008/09

Arriva Coast and Castles Connection Bus £7,160 Route branding design with the co-operation of the AONB team for the 6 buses operating the 501 & 505 routes

Alnmouth Holiday Centre Youth Training £6,250 The creation of a cycle hub, following individual Trust projects elsewhere, providing a focal point for cycle hire, routes, maps, safely equipment, serving and guiding in the AONB area.

Farmland Bird Initiative RSPB £6,750 This project will provide specialist agricultural and conservation management advice and training to farmers, land managers, agents and advisors across the Northumberland Coast AONB.

Howick Hillfort and Mesolithic Hut Howick Estates £4,638 Rebuild the Howick Mesolithic Hut in an authentic way , agree and implement maintenance proposals and provide continued monitoring

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Restoring the New Shoreston Windmill Messrs J I £2,000 Restoration of a windmill previously used to draw water Hutchinson from a well to service a mixed farm plus dwellings.

Coquet Island Sustainable Energy Project RSPB £1,000 The aim of our project is to provide a long term, sustainable future for Coquet Island RSPB Nature Reserve by installing environmentally friendly energy generation technology.

Grass Roots Northumberland £12,124 Three year project to conserve Northumberland’s Wildlife Trust unique grasslands.

Extension of facilities Alnmouth and £1,000 Extension of playing facilities to provide more pitches. Lesbury Cricket Removal of existing boundary fence and service road. Club Reinstatement of boundary fence and service road. Levelling of playing area and preparation of three new wickets.

Lindisfarne Lime Kilns: Topographic Survey, Review of National Trust £3,750 Historical Sources and Aerial Records To undertake a topographic survey of the path leading to the lime kilns at Castle Point on Holy Island. To review the historical sources for the lime kilns

Public Display Panels Bamburgh Research £1,659 Three notice boards adjacent to the archaeological Panels excavations at Bamburgh Castle.

Sustainable Food and Farming Project The Country Trust £3,480 A program of talks in schools by Country Trust staff and farmers. Arranging and delivering visits to real working farms. Food preparation and cooking.

Cycling Northumberland Northumberland £3,000 Revise and reprint the “Northumbria’s Cycling County Council Kingdom” map and guide.

Warkworth First School Survey Warkworth C of E £500 Completion of a survey to identify a suitable low energy (Voluntary Aided) heating system for the school First School

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Forest Schools Outdoor Learning £2,500 Support for the Forest Schools project based at Howick. in Northumberland

2009/10

Living the Tradition Northumbrian £2,850 Promote, celebrate and pass on the traditional music of Smallpipes and Northumberland, and to make tunes that originate in Fiddle the AONB accessible to a wider audience.

Sustainable Food Project The Country Trust £9.225 Continuation of 2008 project

Fruit and Nuts for Alnwick District Alnwick Area £3,493 To create community orchards planted with fruit and Friends of the Earth nut trees with the aim that local people would get access to locally grown products

Seahouses Festival NSSDT £2,500 A range of events that focus on the natural environment in conjunction with Seahouses Festival.

Berwick Anaerobic Digestor Berwick CoRE £3,000 Define the scope of the project and produce a research plan.

Farmland Bird Initiative RSPB £6,750 Continuation of 2008 project

Craster Local History Project Craster Local £1,200 Research aspects of Craster’s history and provide History Group opportunities to share research with the rest of the community.

Northumberland Coast AONB Highlights – Pilot Project WATBus £300 The project plans to use a WATBus minibus and specialised cyclist trailer to encourage residents of SE Northumberland into the AONB

Identify high tide roosts and feeding areas of waders Farming and £1,680 and waterfowl on the N. Northumberland coast Wildlife Advisory Identify areas of importance for roosting at high tides Group and any disturbance factors that may affect these sites.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

A Whole Day of Heritage Alnwick Cultural £1,700 The Project aims to promote and increase participation Management Group to the heritage and history of the AONB through whole days of activities, including a sleepover

Low Carbon Berwick Berwick Community £7,500 Berwick will move towards becoming a low carbon Trust community by deploying a range of renewable technologies

North and Seahouses Sports Centre - Solar NSSDT £2,553 Panels The project will redesign the building to change its focus by providing a multi-purpose training area with solar panels and energy efficiency measures

Seahouses Laundry NSSDT £1,275 To upgrade outbuildings to rear of 62/64 Main Street to provide a business unit for rent.

Cawledge Viaduct Aln Valley Railway £1,125 The Aln Valley Railway Project seeks to re-open the Trust Alnmouth to Alnwick railway line, to create a cycleway running alongside and develop the whole of the railway corridor as a nature resource.

2010/11

Northumberland Coast AONB Highlights WATBus £10,000 Use a WATBus minibus and specialised cyclist trailer to encourage residents of SE Northumberland into the heart of Northumberland AONB for cycling pursuits.

Grass Roots Northumberland £8,000 This stage of the project will focus on urgent Wildlife Trust improvement works to key whin grassland sites within the AONB.

Living the Tradition – Keeping it Live! Northumbrian £2,875 This product will aim to produce and print a volume of Smallpipes and about 50 tunes, originating or linked to the area, which Fiddles are not currently available in print.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Wild Northumberland Active4Seasons £750 Organise and run a small pilot event that showcases the Northumberland AONB and South Berwick coast as a viable sea kayaking venue

Spittal Seaside Festival Spittal £1,500 The Festival will comprise of street entertainers, Improvement Trust displays, continental market, beach activities, food outlets, fun fair and a live music venue.

Farmland Bird Initiative RSPB £5,000 Continuation of project in 2009

2011/12

Big Sea Survey Durham Heritage £1,221 Continuation of project in 2010 Coast Partnership

Beach Schools Outdoor Learning in £6,145 Training programme for adults in Beach Schools and Northumberland Environmental Management, leading to Open college Network Level 3 award. There will be 6 courses; half will be of 2 days duration and the other half of 3 days duration.

Willow Weaving Workshops Lucker and £1,589 The group offer beginner basketry courses to residents Bamburgh Willow in the area comprising of three whole days or 10 Weaving Group evenings which could be repeated over the course of the year running alongside a self-help group.

Roving Eco-Space Ellie Noble £1,965 A caravan will be converted into a flexible eco space which can be used as a classroom, workshop space or meeting place involving young volunteers.

Piri-Piri Burr Study George Dodds & Co £4,000 The aim will be to survey all suitable habitat where piri-piri bur is known to occur and neighbouring habitats

Bamburgh Heritage Trust Bamburgh Heritage £1,950 To develop the fund raising and project management Trust skills of the applicant by means of workshops tailored around the completion of an HLF grant application.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date 2012/13

Local Sites Northumberland £1,000 The Local Sites Partnership will undertake a review of Wildlife Trust sites following the revision and updating of the selection criteria. The specialised nature of these habitats requires that a more expert form of survey will be required. Doubling these up as training sessions also means that the expertise is passed on.

Warkworth Forest School Warkworth CofE £1,150 The school have been given permission to develop a (VA) First School Forest School site by a local farmer and want to develop it for the children

Belford Hidden History Belford Community £5,000 We will create a permanent heritage centre in an Group under- used historic building which will be linked to a village Heritage Trail.

Holy Island Museum Holy Island of £1,500 Basic refurbishment of the existing building to enable it to house information panels and artefacts. This would Community DT include overhauling the roof structure, repairing external stonework, adding a new floor, doors and windows.

Mouth of the Tweed The aim is to strengthen the economy and the cultural Cittaslow Berwick £2,500 identity of the communities of Berwick-upon-Tweed upon Tweed and to raise Berwick’s profile as an attractive place to live in and a distinctive visitor destination.

Howick Book Howick Heritage £1,000 A book of 160 pages A4, with 8 colour pages has been Group produced by bringing together articles about Howick from the Parish Magazine from 2008 – 2012

2013/14

Accessing Aidan Bamburgh PCC £2,000 ‘Accessing Aidan’ is a two phased project: the first part of which is making the crypt to St.Aidans accessible; the second phase will be the development of the community space with information displays and furnishing enabling the crypt to be used for events.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Tales of the Forgotten North A Bit of Crack (ABC) £3,000 In the Tales of the Forgotten North Project (TOFN) we Storytelling want to make both an imaginative and physical journey through the protected landscapes of Northumberland and the North Pennines that will give voice to the land through a series of stories.

Craster Memorial Hall Craster Community £1,200 Improvement to the insulation of the Village Hall Trust

Mandell’s Coffee Pot, Embleton Parish Church Room £1,000 To continue to develop the Parish Church Room as a Committee Coffee Shop, community and visitor centre from the experience gained in 2012.

Amble Puffin Festival Amble Action Group £2,000 Support for a Puffin Festival in Amble

Lowick Community Beekeepers Lowick in Bloom £428 Purchase of a bee hive ‘starter pack’, three bee keeping suits and bees. Members of the local community will be offered the opportunity to work with the hive and learn about bee keeping from a local bee keeper, Philip Greene.

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2013: North by Berwick Film & £3,000 Northeast – The Last Frontier exhibition Media Arts Festival The SDF grant money towards exhibition and workshop Ltd costs, including artists and facilitators’ fees, projector hire and equipment costs, technical support, venue hire and workshop materials.

Circular Cycle Route Products The Cycle PaD £3,000 Expanding the coverage of cycling information and services to the Northumberland Coastal area.

Bamburgh Beach Wreck Maritime £2,200 This project is to investigate the wreck, a likely late Archaeology Sea 18th, early 19th century wooden sailing vessel, found in Trust (MAST) the intertidal zone just south of Bamburgh Castle to establish its build, use, circumstances of loss and date.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Bamburgh Pavilion Roof Re-felting Bamburgh Pavilion £1,000 After 30 years and several repairs, the Pavilion or Association village hall, requires re-felting as there are several leaks which are destroying the wooden floor.

The Sandstone Way Northumberland £2,500 Funding towards the development of a new 100 mile National Park cycling route. Authority

2014/15

Discover the Coquet Estuary and AONB coastline Coquet Shorebase £1,500 The aim is to provide for visitors to the AONB wishing to Trust explore the coast by kayak

Village Voices Seahouses Choir £750 Village Voices is a community choir which gives concerts for local organisations and charities to help with fundraising. Funding was for a portable electronic piano

Tin Church Community Project Newton by the Sea £1,000 Equipment to allow the community to use the Tin Parish Council Church for events.

Coastal Crayfish Northumberland £2,000 Completion of an assessment of white-clawed crayfish Wildlife Trust WCC (Austropotambolius pallipes) in the coastal burns around Ancroft.

Pure Northumbrian Organic Yarn Hunting Hall Farm £500 We want to make an organic knitting yarn from sheep raised along the Northumbrian coastal area, thus promoting and developing a new sustainable local product.

John Muir Award John Muir Trust £3,000 To contribute to a 1 year full time John Muir Award NE England Manager post.

Preserving Alnmouth’s Bettess Collection Alnmouth Local £150 To provide a secure, custom built storage cabinet and History Group associated packaging for documentary and other collection material for a recently donated collection.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date 2015/16

Wilson’s Tales The Wilson’s Tales £1,000 A project to revive and reinterpret a large body of work Project first created by John Mackay Wilson, writer and editor of the “Berwick Advertiser” in the 1830s.

Boulmer Village Hall Memorial £3,000 Restore the Hall - reclad the exterior and include a Hall thick layer of insulation material and to install an eco- friendly heating system (air-to-air).

Ecological Research, Lindisfarne Sarah Woods £800 Develop and test algorithms within an image- recognition analysis framework using aerial images captured at different heights/image resolutions

Peregrini Loan Boxes Northumberland £2,000 25% cash contribution towards the development and Coast AONB production of educational loan boxes to be used as a Partnership heritage teaching resource for the Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership Scheme.

2016/17

Beadnell in Bloom Beadnell in Bloom £2,500 To create a new wildlife corridor and encourage community involvement regardless of age or ability.

Coquet Island at the Baltic RSPB £2,000 High profile event at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art showcasing Coquet Island’s spectacle.

Bamburgh’s First Christians Bamburgh Research £1,890 Dating the burials in the Bowl Hole Cemetery in the Project early medieval period

Coquet Cycles Coquet Cycles Ltd £2,970 To purchase a fleet of bikes, including electric, to be hired out to visitors and residents

Making Art Happen Peregrini £2,000 A training programme to help rural communities Lindisfarne develop and manage participatory art projects.

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Sustainable Development Fund Organisation Grant amount Project applications to date

Boulmer Meadow Longhoughton £2,000 Create a wildflower meadow in Boulmer village for the Parish Council benefit of community and wildlife.

Holy Island Booklet Peregrini £3,000 Producing a 64 page booklet on Holy Island and Lindisfarne adjacent mainland covering natural, built and cultural heritage.

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