Blashford Lakes Annual Report 2018-19 September 2018-August 2019 Wild Day Out – exploring the new sculpture trail © Tracy Standish Blashford Lakes Annual Report 2018-2019 Acknowledgements The Blashford Project is a partnership between Bournemouth Water, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and Wessex Water During the period of 2018-2019 we are also very grateful to New Forest District Council for a grant towards the day to day running costs of managing the Centre and Nature Reserve, New Forest LEADER for their grant towards improving the visitor experience at Blashford Lakes (in particular the installation of wildlife camera’s for viewing by the public and the visitor improvements to the environs inside and immediately around the Centre) and to Veolia Environmental Trust, with money from the Landfill Communities Fund, for the creation of a new wildlife pond, the construction of a new hide and a volunteer manned visitor information hub and improvements to site interpretation and signage. The Trust would also like to acknowledge and thank the many members and other supporters who gave so genererously to our appeal for match funding. Thank you also to the Cameron Bespolka Trust for their generous funding and continued support of our Young Naturalist group. Publication Details How to cite report: No part of this document may be reproduced without permission. This document should be cited as: author, date, publisher etc. For information on how to obtain further copies of this document Disclaimers: and accompanying data please contact Hampshire & Isle of Wight All recommendations given by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Wildlife Trust:
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