posted by admin on Aug 5
This appeal works to help save wildlife habitats in the UK.
The Details:
The Landfill Communities Fund offer funding to restore habitats - but you have to raise the first 10%.
This way if you offer £10 to the WWT, they can ‘unlock’ a further £90 from this Landfill Communities Fund - therefore turning your £1 onto £10.
However the funding is lost completely if the initial 10% isn’t raised.
Therefore the WWT are currently asking for donations for their latest fund to save and restore valuable habitats in local areas across the country.
Previous Work:
Over the past 3 years, previous campaigns have helped to raise over £100,000 - pretty impressive on it’s own - but don’t forget: this gets multiplied by 10 - so they were able to get their hands on a further £900,000 as a result.
That’s £1 million to help restore wetlands and heathland all over the UK!
So, what did they do with all that money? Well they had several large projects including the Great Crane Project which was featured on Springwatch and various other wildlife news reports and events.
The other successful actions were restoring wetlands at Slimbridge, saline lagoons at Washington and adding a canoe safari to their events at Martin Mere. Also at Arundel they have started some serious work to help the water vole population on the River Arun - and pictures coming in from visitors show the results of this project!
How To Contribute:
You can help in a number of ways for this specific appeal - but with an immediate donation having the desired effect!
Belts may be tight - but think of what you would like to donate at the top of your budget - and then divide it by 10. Basically just £1 of your money will in effect be a £10 donation, so if you would love to offer £100 but are a bit cash-strapped - then just offer £10 and you have done your best!
Obviously if your pockets are not quite so empty, then be as generous as you can and work out your total donation by adding the noughts! If you can spare £100 - that’s £1000 in the WWT bank and so on.
Alternatively visit their website to find other ways to support them in their valuable work.
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