Bioblitz fundraising results
Funding report by Tina M Lindsay, Campaign Manager – Chris Packham’s UK Bioblitz Campaign 2018
The Campaign’s costs were privately funded in full and separate to the funds raised via the “Just Giving” Crowdfunding
Total funds received after “Just Giving” Crowdfunding costs: £7,660.81
Of the 50 individual sites Chris Packham’s UK Bioblitz 2018 Campaign visited, 49 were offered up to £150 to fully fund or go towards item/s that would help their grass-roots conservation work on-site or in partnership with education outreach
The site not offered funding is a commercial development
There are 50 listings below as The British Dragonfly Society’s Dragonfly Centre was visited at Wicken Fen and so qualifies for funding
All sites have now had their applications fulfilled and the balance of £638.19 donated to the National Autistic Society
Woodberry Wetlands
Trail camera
Ben Lawers
Digital camera
Loch Leven
Pond liner
Jupiter Urban Wildlife Centre
3 x 120 ltr heavy duty wheelbarrows
Callender Wood
Funding donated to local National Autistic Society branch
On the Verge
Wild seed mix for establishing wildflower sites in 2019
Flanders Moss
Funding donated to Stevenston Beach
Lochwinnoch
Post hole digger, 2 x post hole rammers, post hole auger
Stevenston Beach
2 x Barn Owl nest boxes
Dalmellington Moss
“Mires and Peatlands in Europe – Status, Distribution and Conservation” Hans Joosten, Franziska Tanneberger, Asborn Moen, Council of Europe (CoE)
Lagan Valley Regional Park
approx. 140 orchard & woodland trees
An Creagan
Funding donated to National Autistic Society
Milford Cutting
2 x Trail camera’s
Murlough
Digital microscope
Killard National Nature Reserve
Wooden bench for reserve
Wildflower Alley
Red mason bee guardian kit, 2 insect hotels, 3 butterfly B&B’s, 3 ladybird houses
Crescent Arts Centre
Money towards “Swift awareness and appreciation” workshops
Bog Meadows
2 x trail cameras
Caerlaverock
£150 garden centre vouchers
Glenlude
5 x Silky Fox folding handsaws
St Abb’s Head
10 x house martin nest boxes
Coquet Island
Equipment for Warden’s Cottage
Havannah & Three Hills Nature Reserve
600g Pond edge wildflower seed
Filey Bird Observatory
Poles, feeders, seed mix’s and fat balls for local school
Nosterfield Nature Reserve
Money towards moth-trap equipment
Fairburn Ings
3 x Bat detectors
Waingroves Community Woodland Trust
Bat detector with accessories
Prees Heath Common Reserve
100g Sheep’s Sorrel & 400g Bird’s-foot Trefoil wild seeds
Cemlyn
Trail camera
Pensychnant Conservation Centre and Nature Reserve
Money towards moth-trap equipment
Great Orme Country Park
3 x sweep nets, 1 x beating sheet, 7 x pooters, 15 x magnifiers, 30 x bug pots
Rhyd-y-creuau Field Studies Centre
1 x formicary, 30g wildflower seed, 2 x hedgehog hibernaculum, 1 x solitary bee nest boxes with 100 tubes, 1 x 100 solitary bee nest box replacement tubes
Ynys-hir
3 x 21-inch bow saws, 3 x loppers, 7 x 21-inch bow saw replacement blades
Gilfach Nature reserve
Money towards a tree popper
Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre
2 x binoculars
“Wild Communities” Project, Cae Lynden
Money towards dormouse nest boxes
Newport Wetlands
3 x Bat detectors
St Woolos Cemetery, Newport
2 x bat boxes
Kings Dyke Nature Reserve
3 x binoculars
Papley Grove Farm
Money towards educational equipment
Wicken Fen
2 x tuff trays, 10 x pond trays, 50 x bug pots
The Dragonfly Centre
Digital Microscope
Lakenheath Fen
Replacement electrics for moth trap, 40 x bug pots
Weeting Heath
2 x hide clamps
Yateley Common Country Park
10 x stools, 1 x microscope, 5 x torches, 9 x eco-cups
Cliddesden Community Conservation Group
Money towards tree popper
Martin Down Nature Reserve
4 x USB Microscopes
River Frome Mill & Stream
Money towards lab equipment
Livability Holton Lee
Money towards new interpretation for nature trail
Birds of Poole Harbour
Money towards conservation project
