Early Christmas Present

We are pleased to announce that our project ‘Reconnecting people with nature’ has secured funding from Postcode Local Trust. Postcode Local Trust is a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.

Our organisation received £6,972.00 from the Trust to help us to further engage and educate local residents and visitors. The funds will help us to create dedicated waymarked walking routes and an accompanying leaflet that will allow people to explore the Little Ouse and find out more about the wildlife and history of the area, while increasing community access to outdoor space. It will also provide volunteers with equipment to help them carry out surveying and practical conservation work, as well as developing promotional material to raise the profile of the project.

We hope to start work on the project with our volunteers in January 2021 with it being completed by December 2021. So, look out for the new leaflet and walking routes coming soon.

Find out more about the funders Postcode Local Trust www.postcodelocaltrust.org.uk People Postcode Lottery www.postcodelottery.co.uk

If you go down to the Fens today...

.... you may have seen our posters about our Fen Visitor Questionnaire.

We want to hear your feedback so we can keep improving our sites. If you have visited LOHP sites today please fill in this quick survey and let us know your thoughts (your answers will be anonymous) https://forms.gle/syFYWJFiwdzcH2366.

Closing date is Friday 8th January 2021

Find out what LOHP have been up to during 2020

What a strange year 2020 has turned out to be. We have all had to adapt to different ways of doing things at home, at work and for our leisure activities - our volunteering is no different. From online meetings with Trustees and volunteer groups to social distancing and smaller groups sizes for our practical conservation volunteers and monitoring and surveying volunteers. Our tea breaks had to be very different as well - for a time there was even no cake!!!

Although challenging at times all our volunteers across LOHP have adapted and embraced the changes we have had to make. Obviously all our events and guided walks have had to be cancelled this year - this included our AGM. To try and show what we have been up to and how hard everyone has been working during these changing times we have created a short film. With the help from local volunteer Penny Lindop who filmed our teams in action, we are pleased to be able to bring you our short film LOHP Update 2020.

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/6f333c_cbdd4b31b9304c0982a4b28310a0eef6/360p/mp4/file.mp4