BTEF Projects

Cobbled pavement Dunsop Bridge

The Post Office, Shop and Café in Dunsop Bridge – Puddleducks – needed to repair the broken cobbled pavement outside. The easiest solution was to pull up the cobbles and lay a concrete path. Nobody really wanted to do this but the extra cost of relaying the cobbles by hand was £500. BTEF awarded a grant for this amount to fund the difference between the cheap 'modern' pathway and restoring the traditional one.

Scorton village Playground

In 1926 Peter Ormerod of Wyresdale Park donated land to Scorton village a playing field. The local community raised the funds to refurbish the children's playground and wanted to celebrate the wildlife of the area. BTEF gave a grant of £500 towards the cost of this carving by local sculptor Geoff Whitley who had worked with the children from the school to create a large totem pole of animals of the Forest of Bowland.

 

Educational workshop for schools

Blaize Theatre Group put on SWARD, a musical play about the history of Hay Meadows in local villages in May 2011. The company also offered an educational workshop for schools. Thorneyholme Primary School in Dunsop Bridge wanted to take this up for their Key Stage 2 heritage studies but had no funding available. The Trust provided a grant of £160 to allow this to go ahead for the 22 children involved.

 AONB/RSPB Schools' Outreach Project

During the school year 2010-11, skilled teachers from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds have delivered a project for 11 primary schools in the AONB, with three main objectives:

  • To understand the special features of the Forest of Bowland landscapes and to show the children how land management by people (through farming, forestry, etc.) influences the wildlife which lives there.
  • To raise awareness of the local area by encourgaing children to recognise different habitats and birds and to understand the need to manage and protect the Forest of Bowland AONB
  • To teach the children to recognise birds in their gardens and school grounds and to find out what they can do to help them.

The Trust contributed £250 towards the costs of this project which, by the end of March 2011, has included all 27 primary schools in the AONB.