ANNUAL REVIEW 2008

The site of Heartwood ’s largest new native forest 2008 was a year of exciting new ventures. We embarked on several ambitious journeys to help protect, restore, create and involve more people in and woods than ever before. I hope you will be inspired by our stories. In one of our most visionary projects ever, with the help of many others, we acquired over 300 hectares (741 acres) in Southeast England, where we will create England’s largest continuous new native forest – Heartwood. The land stretches almost as far as the eye can see, and it is only by working at this scale that we can hope to help and combat its many challenges, such as climate change. Fundraising for Heartwood will remain a priority in 2009 and onwards. But, you don’t need to be a large landowner to create woodland. We want to inspire everyone to consider planting – a wood, small copse, or even a single . So in 2008, we helped landowners to plant 90,000 new native trees and create 85 hectares (210 acres) of new woodland on their own sites. Interest in the scheme was such that we could have planted five times this much if we had had more funding. We also launched WoodWatch to make it even easier for people to take action to save trees and woods near them and continued to work tirelessly to protect ancient trees and woods ourselves, being successful in 81 per cent of completed cases. When we launched Tree For All back in 2004 we set out to help a million children plant a tree. It seemed ambitious back then but in 2008, we were pleased to hit this target ahead of schedule. We couldn’t have done this without the help of many other organisations, landowners and volunteers. In 2008, volunteers gave us an amazing 230,000 hours of their precious time. I also want to thank all of our members and other supporters. We were particularly indebted in 2008 to those who left us a gift in their will. Legacies were key in achieving a record breaking income of almost £30 million. This gives us the confidence to keep investing in woods and trees. The future is exciting and challenging, but protecting woods and trees absolutely must be a priority for everyone.

People enjoying a guided walk at Heartwood Forest Sue Holden, Chief executive WTPL/Paul Hetherington

2008 | 02 CONTENTS 04 Protection 06 Restoration 08 Creation 10 Participation 12 Places for nature 14 Natural partners 16 Through the seasons 18 Annual accounts 19 Thank you This result is fantastic. Just brilliant!

Neil Coleman, chairman of the Pencoedtre Bluebells campaign group PROTECTING Ancient woodland is our equivalent of the ; it supports more rare and threatened species than any other UK habitat and is irreplaceable.

Launched in March 2008, WoodWatch makes it even easier for people to help save trees and woods under threat near them. It provides information on how to campaign locally and navigate the planning system. Woodwatch gives us many extra eyes and ears, equipping others to tell us about threats to ancient trees and woods and to act upon these themselves. Visit woodwatch.org.uk Our success in saving threatened ancient woods continued with 81 per cent of completed cases positively resolved in 2008. Pencoedtre in the Vale of Glamorgan, , is a rich ancient woodland with rare plant communities. We played a major part in getting planning permission for WoodWatch demonstration against the to Bexhill housing and industrial units refused in January 2008. Link Road Other victories included Coed Cwm Slade near Wenvoe, also in Wales, where a concrete conglomerate withdrew an application to lay a conveyor belt through its heart . At Pottishaw Farm in West Lothian, an ancient wood was saved from transformation into a garden centre, crematorium and pet cemetery. We continued to fight the proposed new Aberdeen bypass which threatens 15 ancient woods, and BAA’s application to build a second runway at Stansted, which would destroy another six. And, to help us reach more people than ever before, we increased our use of online communications. A Stansted campaign video on YouTube An ancient tree at Windsor attracted 4,500 viewers helping the number of objections to the Great Park and forest runway to double. Our efforts to increase protection for ancient trees also stepped up a gear as we lobbied for amendments to the European Habitats Directive and planning policy across the UK. We gained the support of many MPs with this campaign, including Alun Michael who won a Charity Champion award on the ePolitix website for his efforts on planning and tree protection legislation. We also held a parliamentary reception ‘Celebrating ancient trees’ Opposite: Pencoedtre Wood, addressed by planning minster, Parmjit Dhanda . Wales Vale of Glamorgan Council

Find out more at woodlandtrust.org.uk/campaigns Above: Picture Library WTPL/Ted Green

2008 | 05 RESTORING Across the UK ancient woods, damaged by the planting of non-native conifers, are in urgent need of restoration before they lose their unique natural features forever.

Working in partnership with other landowners and managers, we brought another 3,400 hectares (8,400 acres) of the UK’s ancient woodland into active restoration in 2008. The gradual removal of non-native conifer trees enables the fragile ancient woodland flora to see daylight again. Ambitious projects improving valuable archaeological and historical features were completed at three Trust woods in 2008. Planted conifers were sensitively removed from an area covering one of the largest ancient hillforts in England at Credenhill Park Wood in Herefordshire. Nearly £1 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund enabled the highly Credenhill Park Wood, after restoration work had taken place specialised restoration of unique features at Hackfall in NorthYorkshire. at the hillfort In partnership with the Hackfall Trust, many impressive buildings were repaired including Mowbray Castle, a grand 18th century folly. At Little Doward in the Wye Valley, we carefully removed over two thousand tonnes of conifers, using special low-impact equipment. This ensured that the features of an ancient hill fort, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, were protected. The dramatic hillfort is now visible for all to see. Through partnerships like the Scottish Forest Alliance (SFA), supported by BP, we also worked on a grand scale to make Scotland’s most vulnerable native woods more robust and improve access for people. In 2008, this included tree planting that increased the size of one Coed Aber Atro, restored as part of the UK’s largest native woodland creation projects, The Great of the Meirionnydd Oakwoods Trossachs Forest. Habitat Project In a separate scheme, boosted by another generous Heritage Lottery Fund grant, we took part in work to engage people, improve biodiversity and enhance the cultural heritage of the Ochils, near Stirling. Opposite: Top: Restoration WTPL/Tom Curtis Bottom left: Mowbray Also, in Edinburgh and the Lothians, we started working with partners Castle, Hackfall to re-establish green corridors and improve access through the WTPL/Ian Gilkison Middle right: Geordie’s Edinburgh Forest Habitat Network Partnership . Wood WTPL/Niall Benvie And we celebrated the successful completion of the Meirionnydd Bottom right: Little Doward Woods Oakwoods Project where we joined with others to restore some of WTPL the best areas of Atlantic oak wood in Europe. This three year project

Above: WTPL/Jeremy Evans has benefited 58 woods across Wales covering 1710 hectares (about WTPL/Rory Francis 4,225 acres).

2008 | 06 An unrestored ancient woodland A restored ancient woodland

…regenerating native woodland and creating a legacy designed to span two centuries.

The Scottish Forest Alliance Our new schemes will help more people experience the joy of creating a wood of their own.

James Lonsdale, Head of Woodland Creation CREATING The UK is one of the least wooded places in Europe, yet we know from our own tree planting projects that in just 12 years new native woods can flourish with wildlife.

We want to see the UK’s native woodland cover doubled by 2050. At the end of 2008 with the support of numerous funders, we acquired over 300 hectares (741 acres) of land in where we are creating Heartwood Forest. Planting at the site is scheduled to begin during the 09/10 season. Eventually it will become England’s largest continuous new native forest, bringing immeasurable benefits to people and wildlife. We also offered landowners in England and Wales the chance to create their own woods with the launch of a pilot scheme in 2008 .Thanks to various funders, including some legacies, it will lead to 90,000 native trees being planted creating 85 hectares (210 acres) of new woodland. In 2009, Taking part in our Tree For All a new version of the scheme called MOREwoods was launched. project at Victory Wood The final planting of 90,000 trees at Victory Wood in Kent was celebrated in 2008. This was our flagship Trafalgar Wood site, originally created to commemorate the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005. Around 10,000 of these trees were planted by the public and we hope that about 22,000 more will establish through natural regeneration. Like much of our planting, the new woodland areas offer wildlife benefits across a vast landscape, and link together existing ancient woods which are part of the very important Blean Woods complex. As part of the Scottish Forest Alliance, at Geordie’s Wood in Clackmannanshire we planted the last of one and a half million new Clements Wood, County Antrim, trees across our three Glen Devon sites. These too will offer landscape a haven for wildlife scale benefits to people and wildlife. We also celebrated two of our sites being declared Opposite: Top: Tree planting at Local Nature Reserves in 2008 – Monkstown Wood and Clements Geordie’s Wood, Glen Wood , both in County Antrim. Now flourishing with wildlife, they were Devon WTPL/Niall Benvie originally woodland creation sites planted by local people to celebrate Middle left: Wood anemone, one of the wonderful the Millennium through our Woods on your Doorstep project. species found at Monkstown and Clements Woods Importantly in November 2008, Northern Ireland saw an Assembly WTPL/Steven Kind motion Bottom left: Clements Wood passed with all party support, calling on the Minister for WTPL/Gregor Fulton Agriculture to detail strategies for doubling the Province’s woodland Bottom right: Monkstown Wood cover in the next 50 years. WTPL/Rosanna Ballentine

Above: WTPL/Nick Cobbing WTPL/Gregor Fulton

2008 | 09 PARTICIPATING People are an essential part of protecting nature and we want to inspire everyone, especially children, to experience the joy and value of trees and woods.

Our young ‘ nature detectives ’ got the year off to a record start by creating over 4,500 woodland scenes for a national art competition. The exclusive prize – an art master class with natural history illustrator Joanne Glover – was won by a school in Shrewsbury. Meanwhile online, the millionth activity sheet was downloaded from the Nature Detectives website by a childminder and used to spot wildlife in the gardens of Birmingham. By the end of the year, there were 12,500 children, teachers and leaders in our new kids’ club, all busy outside doing their weekly nature challenges. For more details visit Winning entry for our Nature naturedetectives.org.uk Detectives’ art competition from Woodfield Infants School At the beginning of the year, we also ran a series of events and activities to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Robert Marsham ‘founding father of phenology’ .This tied in with our Nature’s Calendar survey, which is based on the science of phenology. It involves thousands of volunteers monitoring how our native wildlife is affected by climate change. For more details visit naturescalendar.org.uk In May, we launched our Summer of Hugs at the Hay Literary Festival, as part of our Ancient Tree Hunt project. It aims to record 100,000 ancient, veteran and notable trees by encouraging volunteers across the UK to find and ‘hug’ them. Hugging helps determine their girth and so their age. We also released a knitting pattern for a new scarf to enable people to Nikki Williams measuring an measure trees more easily. By the end of September, 50,000 people had ancient tree with the help of a downloaded a pattern. Since the project started over 6,000 people have knitted scarf recorded a tree at AncientTreeHunt.org.uk On 25 November, Emily Morris, aged 10, became the millionth child to plant a tree since our Tree For All campaign began. We were delighted to reach this milestone even earlier than planned. The project originally set out to give one million children the unforgettable experience of planting a tree, but with the target achieved, we have set our sights on

Opposite: Emily Harris, the millionth the next million. child to participate in our Tree For All campaign For more details visit woodlandtrust.org.uk/takepart WTPL/Chris Booth

Above: Woodfield Infants School WTPL

2008 | 10 It was such a surprise to be the millionth child. I love tree planting and nature.

Emily Harris aged 10 from Durham

2008 | 11 PLACES FOR NATURE

In 2008, we acquired another 11 sites covering over 565 hectares (1,396 acres); places where nature will thrive under our protection. Many of these are new woodland creation sites which will help link 3 4 and extend ancient woods, act as a ‘buffer zone’ to shield them from surrounding land use and provide more space for wildlife and places for people to enjoy.

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1 Heartwood Forest, Hertfordshire When we heard about over 300 hectares (741 acres) of land becoming available to buy near Sandridge, just a few miles north of St Albans in the South East of England, we knew the potential it offered was phenomenal. We began negotiations which had to be shrouded in secrecy.When we launched our largest ever appeal in May 2008 the area was enigmatically referred to as ‘Mystery Bluebells at Heartwood Forest Site X’. Despite this, the response from our members was incredible with nearly £1 million raised from the first appeal. With these funds boosted by grants and corporate support, we had made the site ours by October 2008. It has now been named Heartwood Forest and, though still in the fundraising phase, we’re moving ahead with our ambitious plans to plant 600,000 trees . With the help of people everywhere, we will create England’s largest continuous new native forest.

Red kite – one of the species which Heartwood Forest will be transformed into a vast native may benefit from the woodland, flourishing with wildlife. With a population of over two million people living within 15 miles, it offers a huge opportunity to connect more people with nature.

2008 | 12 2 Elmstead Market, Another successful public appeal in 2008 resulted in the purchase of 37 hectares (91 acres) of prime planting land at Elmstead Market, just three miles from the centre of Colchester. The site already contains pockets of ancient woodland and we want to extend the woodland area by planting 55,000 native trees and create a mosaic of other habitats. Elmstead Market Wide stretches of grassland, shrubby areas and wildlife corridors will encourage a great variety of species and give the many people living nearby easy access to nature.

3 Burntollet Wood, Londonderry Beautifully set on the banks of the Burntollet River, lies one of the Trust’s biggest ever acquisitions in Northern Ireland. At 24 hectares (59 acres), Burntollet Wood’s proximity to Ness Country Park, an Area of Special Scientific Interest, and just south east of the city of Londonderry, makes it an absolute gem. If we can raise the funds, we will plant over 36,000 native trees to Red squirrel provide more woodland habitat for nearby wildlife, like buzzards, otters, pygmy shrews and endangered red squirrels , species that are already living nearby just waiting to move in.

4 Low Burnhall, County Durham Low Burnhall is just two miles from the city of Durham with a frontage along the banks of the River Wear. Funding permitting, we will plant 80,000 trees here and create woodland and wildflower meadows. The 68-hectare (167-acre) site lies just across the river from a wildlife-rich wood and wetland and contains its own fragments of ancient woodland. It has the potential to be the perfect place for wildlife and walkers to escape city life. Low Burnhall We are still appealing for funds to create and care for all of these sites. To help please visit woodlandtrust.org.uk/appeals Photographs: WTPL/Paul Hetherington WTPL/Dave Foker WTPL/Aerial Close-up Photography WTPL/Pete Holmes WTPL/Sara Lyons

2008 | 13 NATURAL PARTNERS

Once again, our business partnerships contributed important funds for our work in 2008, increased awareness of the Trust and encouraged their customers to become involved with trees and woods. Here are just a few examples:

In 2008, as part of IKEA’s Foot of Forest campaign, swipes of IKEA’s Family Card raised enough funds for us to create three million square feet of forest in the future. Meanwhile, to mark the brand’s 25th birthday, Timotei ’s customers funded the creation of a further 10 hectares (25 acres) filled with wild flowers and trees. By the spring of 2009 they had blossomed into beautiful ‘ of Flowers’. Buyers of Ronseal’s Eco-Range helped fund the planting of another 4,000 trees. We also worked with three retailers to reduce the number of plastic bags their customers used, at the same time raising funds to Meadowhall Shopping Centre’s reusable shopping bag plant trees. They all created special re-usable shopping bags and donated a percentage of the profits to us; Meadowhall Shopping Centre near Sheffield boosted our funds by charging for their jute reusable bags; Lakeland shoppers raised £42,000 from reusable shopping bag sales, and TK Maxx raised a fantastic £130,000 and reduced plastic bag usage by 70 per cent. Staff at Royal Mail were invited to work out their carbon footprint. They could then make a tax free donation through their payroll to plant trees with us and compensate for their carbon emissions. This payroll giving scheme raised enough money to plant nearly 7,000 trees equivalent to 1,366 tonnes of carbon. Royal Mail goes greener Bookseller Green Metropolis hit an impressive landmark this year, recycling its one millionth book, with the Woodland Trust receiving a donation for each recycled book sold via the Internet. And, our famous Christmas Card Recycling Scheme resulted in over 73 million cards being recycled by the public at WHSmith , Opposite: Clockwise from top left: Hermione Norris Tesco , TK Maxx and Marks and Spencer . This will enable us to advertising our Christmas plant around 17,000 trees. Card Recycling Scheme; IKEA staff plant a tree; The Ronseal tree; For more on these and our other business partnerships Barry Crow, MD of Green Metropolis; visit woodlandtrust.org.uk/companies A forest of flowers for Timotei

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THROUGH THE SEASONS

IN THE SPRING

Cefn Ila near Usk received the first saplings from the PLANT! scheme. Initiated by the Welsh Assembly Government , the scheme aims to plant a tree for every child born or adopted in Wales after 1 January 2008 (around 35,000 per year) and is expected to lead to the creation of 30 hectares (75 acres) of new woodland a year. Northern Ireland politicians , including former First Minister, Rev Dr Ian Paisley, and deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, accepted our invitation in April to plant a new grove of birch, ash and oak trees at Stormont, to show their commitment to increasing the Province’s native woodland cover. Later in the year, we took our Vision for woodland in Northern Ireland to Stormont. This called on the Government to deliver on its commitment to double the country’s woodland cover and asked for greater protection for ancient woods and trees.

IN THE SUMMER

We unveiled our new report, Woodland actions for biodiversity and their role in water management , highlighting the role trees can play in soaking up carbon dioxide, reducing pollution and preventing flooding when planted in the right places. Our Green Tree Schools Award was launched, rewarding schools with points every time they participated in one of our inspirational learning events, such as tree planting, recycling or the YellowWoods Challenge. The latter is supported by directory publisher, Yell, and encourages school children to recycle Yellow pages, which, in turn, raises money for the Trust to plant trees. We were also awarded our third successive five-year Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certificate – an independent audit assuring that our woods are well-managed. We were the first UK-wide landowner to have all its woods certified by the FSC.

2008 | 16 Here’s a flavour of some other Trust activities which occurred across the UK in 2008.

IN THE AUTUMN

Over 3,400 people took part in our Hainault Forest Festival in Essex, which included speed-dating walks, fungi forays, silent walks and a woodcraft week. The Trust’s campaign team dressed up as trees from a mythical ‘Philipland Wood’ and descended upon London to highlight the threats posed to woods by the aviation industry . The ‘trees’ visit to BAA’s headquarters, was made into a short film shown on YouTube. Irena Krasinska-Lobban was awarded our Volunteer of the Year award for her amazing work on the Ancient Tree Hunt. One of our many valued volunteers, Irena was singled out for identifying over 100 ancient trees and inspiring others through her role as a tree verifier.

IN THE WINTER

We celebrated the first anniversary of our Brede High Woods acquisition in East Sussex, the Trust’s second largest site in England. Restoration by gradual removal of planted non-native conifers is now well underway, the management plan agreed and public access improved. Young people from West Lothian proudly premiered five very different films documenting their reactions and views on woods, as part of our Branching Out in West Lothian (BOWL) project. We issued our Scottish Challenges ,which called on the government, unitary authorities and Scotland to protect and restore the country’s woodland. It contained targets for doubling native woodland cover in the country by 2050. Our woodland dedication service continued to be popular and, by the end of the Christmas period, over 13,000 people had dedicated trees or areas of woodland. This raised almost £1 million towards our work.

Photographs: Planting at Cefn Ila WTPL ; Politicians put down roots at Stormont: from left to right, deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, the Woodland Trust’s Patrick Cregg, former First Minister Rev Ian Paisley, and Speaker William Hay Michael Cooper ; Waterfall at Hackfall WTPL/Marshall Sisterton ; Pupil receiving Green Tree Schools Award June Good ; Children enjoying Hainault Forest Festival WTPL/Tony Chadwick ; Philipland Wood ‘trees’ protesting WTPL ; Brede High Woods WTPL/Colin Varndell ; Young people taking part in the BOWL film project Helen Pugh

2008 | 17 ANNUAL ACCOUNTS

Another record breaking income of nearly £30 million was achieved in 2008, with the help of membership, public donations, corporate support, charitable trusts and grants, and in particular legacies, the latter of which made up almost 30 per cent of our total income.

INCOME £000s 10 11 01 | Legacies 8,210

09 02 | Public donations 5,151 08 07 03 | Membership 4,894 01 04 | Grants 3,129 06 05 | Companies, trusts and landfill tax 2,355 06 | Sponsorship income 2,253

05 07 | Investments and bank interest 1,294 08 | Merchandise and lotteries 1,001 09 | Woodland management income 700

04 10 | Other income 505 02 11 | Donated land 238

03 Total income 29,730

EXPENDITURE £000s

07 08 01 | Protection of ancient woodland 1,614 02 | Woodland conservation and 01 06 management 5,703

05 03 | Creation of new native woodland 11,233 02 04 | Access, recreation and education 5,721

Sub-total 24,271 05 | Fundraising 2,402 04 06 | Membership 1,973 07 | Governance 182 08 | Investment management 36

Sub-total 4,593

03 Total expenditure 28,864 Income less expenditure 866

The figures above were extracted from the full audited and unqualified accounts. Copies can be obtained from woodlandtrust.org.uk or by applying to the Trust’s head office in Grantham. The annual accounts were approved on 20 May 2009 and have been submitted to the Charity Commission, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, and Companies House. Colin Hall, chair of the finance committee. 2008 | 18 We are grateful to the following organisations and individuals THANK YOU who supported the Trust during 2008.

CHARITABLE Open Gate Manor Oak LANDFILL Mrs M T Barker Miss E D Kenrick TRUSTS Patricia Routledge Marks & Spencer plc COMMUNITIES Mr P G Bedson John A C Kerridge £1000 and over Charitable Trust Meadowhall FUND Mr J M Benton Mrs S Kurzen Paul Bassham Charitable Noble Foods Ltd Mr L E Beresford Mrs M G Langley £5,000 and over Alan Evans Memorial Trust Penguin Books Ltd Mrs B Beveridge Mr G F Lawrence Trust Peacock Charitable Trust PricewaterhouseCoopers Alpha Programmes Mrs J Bielby Miss L F Leake Ann Brown Charitable PF Charitable Trust LLP managed by Miss A J Black Dr E M Le Breton Settlement Richard Radcliffe Reed Elsevier Groundwork NI Mrs P M I Blackmore Ms S U Levi Ash Yeo Charitable Trust Charitable Trust RM Education plc Angus Environmental Mr A K Blake Mrs J B Lewis Banister Charitable Trust Risby Charitable Trust Ronseal Ltd Trust Miss R M Box Mrs P M Lundgren Behrens Foundation Robert Clutterbuck Royal Mail Group Better Belfast Landfill Mr P B Brodribb Mrs M M F Lynn Ben Koerner Charitable Trust Sainsbury’s Community Fund Miss H M Brookes Mrs E S D Lyon-Williams Bergne-Coupland Charity Scouloudi Foundation SCA Recycling Ltd Biffaward Mrs N Broudin Mrs M J Markham Brian Woolf Trust Serve All Trust T C Communications Ltd County Durham Mr A W Bullock Mrs M J Marszalek Brownswood Trust Tesco Freetime Ltd Environmental Trust ShareGift Mrs J E M Burgess Miss F E Mayes Carpenters’ Company Shears Foundation Tesco Stores Ltd Cumbria Waste Mrs M Burns Mr L A Monk Charles Henry Foyle Skyme Hart Charitable The Co-operative Bank Management Mrs J M Carrington Miss M A Mycock Trust Trust plc Environment Trust Ms M V N Brown Miss M E Nash Cheruby Trust Spear Charitable Trust The Royal Bank of CWM Environmental Miss V D F Carthy Professor K I B S Cleopatra Trust Steel Charitable Trust Scotland Limited Mrs E M Chamberlin Needham John S Cohen Foundation Sylvia Aitken Charitable The Walt Disney GEMTrust Miss E W Charleton Mrs E K Nicholls Colles Trust Trust Company Gloucestershire Mrs M Cheney Miss B A Noaks Craignish Charitable Trust Tanner Trust Timotei Environmental Trust Mrs L J Clarkson Dagny Raymond Tay Charitable Trust TJX Europe GrantScape Mr R A Cochrane-Smith Miss N L North Charitable Trust Tekoa Trust TNT Post Lafarge Aggregates Miss C Coles Mrs R Nye David Killick Trust The Martin Connell Total Refrigeration Lancashire Environmental Mr G Colton Dr B M Parker Dingwall Trust Charitable Trust Velux Fund Ms P R Cook Mr R W Parr Doris Field Charitable The Michael Marsh WHSmith Retail Ltd npower Mrs J E Cooke Dr E K J Paterson Trust Charitable Trust Worcester Bosch SITA Trust Miss L A M Cox Mrs M Pearce Dr & Mrs A Darlington The Sunley Foundation Yellow Moon UK Ltd Staffordshire Ms E L Coxon Mrs D M Phillips Charitable Trust The Tubney Charitable Yellow Pages Environmental Fund Mr J Crocker Miss B M Phillips Dunard Fund Trust Yeo Valley Organic Co Trust for Oxfordshire’s Miss E Crowther Mr K T Pilkington Esmee Fairbairn Thornton Charitable Ltd Environment Mr M J Dare Mrs B Plant Foundation Trust Ulster Wildlife Trust Mrs J M Dubois Mrs B L Price Essex Trust Tolkien Trust GRANTS Veolia Environmental Mrs D M Deane Mrs D G Reid E T Mowle Charitable Vandervell Foundation £5,000 and over Trust Miss R M Davies Miss G R E Rickard Trust Waterloo Foundation Big Lottery Fund Waste Recycling Mr P M Durman Mrs L A Riley Fisherbeck Charitable William Dean Trust Horizons Environmental Limited Mr F W Ellis Miss P M B Robertson Trust Countryside Council for Welcome to Our Future Mrs K N Ellison Mrs F L Robinson Florence Turner Trust CORPORATE Wales Yorventure Mr D C Fairhall Mrs P M Rooker Forbes Fund SUPPORTERS Defra Mr J C Fieldhouse Miss E J A Rutherford Garfield Weston ALD Automotive Department of LOCAL Mr A G C Findlay Mrs M K Samuel Foundation Barclaycard Agriculture and Rural AUTHORITIES Mr B Fletcher Mrs N G Scaum George A Moore Barclays Development NI £5,000 and over Miss E Fleure Mrs K E M Scheerboom Foundation BMRB Social Research Department of Miss M Flower Belfast City Council Mrs M A Shanks Gretna Charitable Trust BMW Ltd Communities and Mrs C A Ford Cambridgeshire County Mr W Shaw Gunter Charitable Trust British Land Local Government Miss M Forman Council Mr P J Sherwin Harris Charity BT plc Environment Agency Mr P A Fowler Carrickfergus Borough Mrs A M Short Hawthorne Charitable Buccleuch Group European Structural Mrs E D Gale Council Mr B H Shuck Trust Calor Funds Mr K H E George Castlereagh Borough Dr S E G Simpson Hilda and Johnny Gibb Cap Gemini Forestry Commission Miss E G R Gillespie Council Ms A C M Simpson Charitable Trust Charities Advisory Trust England Mr A Goddard Cheshire County Council Dr A Sivasbrumaniam Holbeck Charitable Trust Communisis Forestry Commission Mrs I M Gordon Cherwell District Council Miss G Smith Ian & Elizabeth Church Colletts Holidays Scotland Miss H S Green Cookstown District Mrs J Smith Charitable Trust Continu-forms holdings Forestry Commission Mrs E L Green Council Miss A M H Smith Ingram Trust plc Wales Mrs E F Greenwood Essex County Council Miss M St John J K Reynell Charitable Delta-Simons Forest Service Northern Mrs D P Gummer Herefordshire Council Mrs M G Stater Trust Dorothy Perkins Ireland Mrs D Hannah Leicestershire County Mr M J R Stockman Jack Patston Charitable Doubletree by Hilton Friends of the Lake Miss C J Harries Council Mrs S Swann Trust Environmental Business District Mr G B Harrod Larne District Council Mr D Swift John Ellerman Foundation Products Ltd Green Arc Mrs A G R Harvie Mr F J Taylor John Jarrold Trust Ferrero UK Ltd Hackfall Trust Newtownabbey Borough Mr E Haswell Lady Hind Trust 3663 First For Heritage Lottery Fund Council Mrs P P Hince Ms A Tucker Langdale Trust Foodservice Kent Downs AONB North Down Borough Miss D E Hobbs Mrs F Turner Mark Leonard Trust Flourish National Forest Company Council Mrs M M Hogan Ms D A Tyler Mary Lady Fuller Georgia Pacific GB Ltd Nottinghamshire County Miss J A H Holden Miss J M 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