Love your Landscapes

As part of the Westmorland Dales Landscapes Partnership, Friends of the Lake District will be running a grant scheme for local communities and organisations to unlock, cherish and share the hidden heritage of their local landscape. It will run from 2019 – 2022.

Grants could cover :

• Access and paths (enhancement, new links, development of walks or interpretation)
• Town and village greens (management plans, restoration, new things, eg seats, meadows, bulbs), access to information, (e.g. Re management, legal)
• Local heritage features (eg bridges, milestones, sheepfolds, washfolds, cast iron signposts) and archaeology ( surveys, research, restoration)
• Walls, hedges, flora and fauna (surveys, restoration, enhancement)
• Local histories, place names, folklore, etc
• Events focusing on landscape, flora and fauna, land management, cultural heritage
• Local food initiatives
• Interpretation of what is hidden (leaflets, websites, apps)
• Restoring or further survey work identified during the project to record small cultural heritage features

If you have an idea for a project then please get in touch. If you have a project which you would like to do before 2019, then you can also get in touch as you may be eligible for one of Friends of the Lake District’s existing grants. Contact Jan Darrall : [email protected]; 01539 720788

Criteria

In order to be eligible for a grant, your project must:

• be located within, or demonstrate clear links to the Westmorland Dales project area
• unlock, cherish and share the hidden heritage of the local landscape and/or
• enable people to connect with /enjoy the landscape of the Westmorland Dales area;
• be accessible to the public.
• You or your organisation must have a bank account and, if you are a community group or charity, formal terms of reference.
• You must input 20% of the total cost as volunteer or in kind contribution for their project.

We will not fund

• Individual applicants.
• Works on private land where there is no public access
• Retrospective works.
• Ongoing maintenance, eg grass cutting
• Village halls or other community buildings unless there is clear cultural heritage significance.
• Applicants who have a bad track record
• Projects or applicants which conflict with FLD policy principles, eg permanent fell fencing, infrastructure in the open countryside, large scale development.
• Grants for land purchase by other organisations
• Non cast iron signposts.
• Children’s playgrounds.
• Grants for a repeat project, eg extension of a project already funded.
• Projects eligible for funding from public sources, eg Countryside Stewardship.

Grants

Grant awards will normally be in the range of £100 -£2000.

You will be required to sign an agreement stating that your project will meet FLD’s aims of protecting and enhancing the landscape and access to it.

Payments will be made on completion of the project and satisfactory completion of a project reporting form.

We reserve the right to reclaim grant monies if the project is not carried out as agreed.

For more information please contact Jan Darrall : [email protected]; 01539 720788