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scheme funded by Countryside Agency, Heritage Lottery and Nationwide
Building Soc. Its aim is to promote community development
through heritage conservation.
It gives grants of between £3-15 000 (60% of total
project cost, plus a few with no matching funded needed) and will fund
projects to do with 'hedgerows, copses, pollards, orchards, small
heathland areas, water meadows .....' Also possible are
recording and photographing, grazing a SSSI, work on the woodland
areas of an estate, field names,
The cultural significance of these features must be
a major part of the application.
More information from:
LHI Information, The Acorn Centre, 51 High Street,
Grimethorpe, Barnsley S72 7BB. Tel: 01226 719 019.
There is also a web site at www.lhi.org.uk
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