Natural England and the Big Lottery Fund’s “Changing Spaces” scheme have joined forces to transform open spaces around their local communities to create wildlife havens all around Britain.
The £3.2 million grant so far has been handed out to sixteen new projects which will help local communities create everything from small wildlife reserves in Warwickshire to a wildflower meadow in an Wolverhampton church yard and a linear park in Birmingham.
More grants are likely to be made available for similar projects anywhere in Britain – contact Natural England for details.
It seems, even in a recession, there is room for a little environmental improvement and perhaps even if we can’t get an instant financial fix, we can at least have somewhere to relax.
