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Take a look, through some of the common species of wildlife that live in the South Yorkshire area around Sheffield and Rotherham.
A recently extended patch of heathland and woodland, neighbouring Wyming Brook.
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Think of a number and multiply it by ten. This could be the value of your gift to local wildlife.
It might sound too good to be true, but your donation can be the key to unlocking funding worth thousands of pounds to make a huge difference to local wildlife.
For example, if you give £100, it could release funds of up to £1,000 – it’s as simple as that!
Our Acorn Fund is a pot of money allocated specifically to help release funds from the Landfill Communities Fund. If we are able to raise £10,000 each year for this fund, it will enable us to unlock potential funding of up to £100,000 annually to benefit our nature reserves across Sheffield and Rotherham.
Landfill site operators pay tax when they bury waste. Some of this money goes into the Landfill Communities Fund, which we can then apply for to support vital nature conservation work in Sheffield and Rotherham.
Competition for these grants is high, and even when we secure an offer there can be one last hurdle to jump. These grants frequently require additional funds (otherwise known as a Third Party Contribution) to unlock them – usually an extra 10% from supporters – and this is often required within a tight deadline.
We aren’t allowed to use the Trust’s existing funds for this contribution and without it, the offer is taken off the table.
Please consider giving a gift to our Acorn Fund to unlock future funding.
• Landfill operators receive a 90% tax credit against payments to organisations like us – so we can fund projects that meet agreed criteria.• To unlock the funding, we need a third party to contribute the missing 10% tax.• The third party must be completely independent from us.• Entrust, the Landfill Community Fund Regulator, allows us to collect these funds on your behalf (unfortunately gift aid cannot be claimed on these gifts).• For every £100 we receive, we will be able to unlock £1,000 of funding
Unfortunately gift aid cannot be claimed on these gifts
I want to Gift Aid any donations I make in the future or have made in the past 4 years to this charity. I am a UK taxpayer and understand that if I pay less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations in that tax year it is my responsibility to pay any difference. We will claim 25p on every £1 you donate.
We have just submitted an application to the Biffa Award to support essential work at our Greno Woods Nature Reserve. This potential £32,926 of funding will enable us to ensure that Greno Woods is more resilient to future threats as a result of climate change including flood and fire through installing fire breaks and leaky dams. If we were to be successful with this grant, we will need to provide £3,292 in third party contribution funding to unlock this grant by the end of June.
Grants from the FCC Communities Foundation and the Veolia Environmental Trust formed a significant part of the funding needed to secure the ownership of Ughill Farm last year. In our first spring looking after the 132 hectare site, we have been delighted to see a huge variety of bird species including lapwing, curlew and snipe and we are now working on plans for the long term management of our nature friendly farm.
Thanks to the Biffa Award we’ve been able to improve and protect the habitat for the red listed whinchat at our Blacka Moor nature reserve. UK whinchat numbers halved over the last 25 years, largely due to the loss of suitable habitat. Thanks to the funding, we were able to replace essential boundaries, improve the woodland edge and reduce invasive rhododendron – all to improve the habitat for these threatened birds.