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	World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) Towards a global campaign against the long distance transport of animals for slaughter. Grant up to £100,000 Overall project budget £528,800	Credit: WSPA

The WSPA is the world’s largest federation of animal welfare societies and works to raise the standards for animal welfare throughout the world.

Our grant was awarded towards the cost of the first year of a global campaign against the long distance transport of animals for slaughter. WSPA is coordinating this international coalition of 11 leading, reputable and experienced animal welfare organisations known publicly as the “Handle with Care” campaign.

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Conservation of the Natural Environment

 

Devon Wildlife Trust Towards the “Natural Networks – Working Wetlands on the Culm” project. Grant up to £500,000 Overall project budget £1,401,049

Credit: Devon Wildlife Trust

Our grant supports work to improve the condition of nationally important UK BAP habitats of Culm grassland and wet woodland in Northwest Devon. Through the provision of specialist services to landowners and managers, the project will restore the ecosystem function of these vital wetlands by restoring degraded habitat, recreating lost habitat and establishing links and corridors between. The project will benefit UK BAP priority species such as the marsh fritillary butterfly, otter, dormouse, skylark and freshwater pearl mussel.

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Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Towards the “flower-rich meadow heritage of northeast Staffordshire” project. Grant up to £132,150 Overall project budget £365,635

Credit: Colin Hayes

Staffordshire's location, at the northern or southern extremes of the ranges of many species, is one of the reasons for its rich and diverse flora and fauna. Our grant to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust was to support strategic work to create, restore and link significant areas of a variety of grassland habitats. Through the provision of advice to landowners, the existing areas of habitats will be brought into favourable condition and sustainably managed for the future. The UK BAP priority habitats of lowland calcareous grassland, lowland meadows and dry acid grassland will benefit along with their associated UK BAP priority species. 

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North Highlands Forest Trust Towards the “Far North Coppice-Forestry” project. Grant up to £98,849 Overall project budget £229,882

Credit: North Highlands Forest Trust

The far north of Scotland may appear to the visitor as a pristine habitat. However, this is far from the reality. Woodland in this part of the UK has been reduced significantly over the centuries, particularly through the use of fire and agriculture, with perhaps the most significant current threat being from over-grazing. The fragments which remain are of immense biodiversity importance for a range of UKBAP priority species. Our grant was awarded to support work to reduce the fragmentation of key woodland habitats in Caithness and Sutherland and promote the delivery of appropriate woodland management to ensure more sustainable and biodiversity focussed forestry in the future. The UK BAP priority habitats of upland birchwoods, upland oakwood, wet woodland, upland mixed ashwoods and native pine woodland will benefit along with a wide-ranging list of UK BAP priority species including the scottish wood ant, spotted flycatcher, black grouse, dark-bordered beauty moth, twinflower, one-flowered wintergreen, otter and red squirrel.

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The Woodland Trust Towards the purchase and restoration of Brede High Woods, Sussex. Grant up to £750,000 Overall project budget £2,685,520

Credit: WTPL/Colin Varndell

Our grant contributed towards the purchase and large-scale restoration of Brede High Woods in the Sussex High Weald AONB, one of the largest concentrations of ancient woodland in the country. The project will restore 263 hectares to a mosaic of woodland and associated habitats, including UK BAP priorities lowland heathland and lowland dry acid grassland, and will benefit such UK BAP priority species as the dormouse, pipistrelle bat, water vole, great crested newt, turtle dove, spotted flycatcher, pearl-bordered fritillary, white admiral, dingy skipper and grizzled skipper.

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Vale Landscape Trust Towards the purchase, restoration and management of Hipton Hill Orchard, Worcestershire. Grant up to £70,000 Overall project budget £239,354

Credit: VLHT

Hipton Hill Orchard is a traditional orchard in the Vale of Evesham, where this land use was historically widespread. As with other similar fruit-growing areas, the loss of orchards has been dramatic over the second half of the 20th century. The Vale Landscape Trust was set up to save such rapidly diminishing pockets of traditional countryside that are left in the Vale of Evesham.

Our grant contributed towards the purchase of 28 hectares of traditional orchard. With Hipton Hill being of an exceptionally large size and the site containing the additional UK BAP priority habitat of lowland calcareous grassland, the land purchased with the assistance of our grant is of significant biodiversity value. UK BAP priority species such as the noble chafer, bullfinch and skylark are likely to benefit from the acquisition and subsequent management of the orchard. 

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Suffolk Wildlife Trust Towards the “Dunwich Forest Wood Pasture” project. Grant £61,446 Overall project budget £163,420

Credit: Steve Aylward

Suffolk Wildlife Trust cares for over 50 wildlife rich nature reserves throughout the county. Our grant contributed towards the restoration and management of 260 hectares of land in an area of the Suffolk coast with a complex of sites of national and international importance. The short-term restoration and longer-term re-creation work on the land will increase the area of UK BAP priority habitat of wood pasture, link existing fragmented habitats and enlarge the area of the coast under conservation management. A wide range of UK BAP priority species will benefit including adder, grass snake, common lizard, nightjar, turtle dove, woodlark, song thrush, linnet, spotted flycatcher, lunar yellow underwing moth, white letter hairstreak and grayling butterflies, pipistrelle bat and hedgehog.

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past grants

To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2008
please click here past grants 2008 (pdf 44k)

To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2007
please click here past grants 2007 (pdf 44k)

To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2006
please click here past grants 2006 (pdf 25k)

To download a list of grants made in the year ending March 2005
please click here past grants 2005 (pdf 20k)

annual report and accounts

To download a copy of The Tubney Charitable Trust’s Annual Report year ending 31 March 2008 please click here annual report 2008.pdf (pdf 168K)

To download a copy of The Tubney Charitable Trust’s Annual Report year ending 31 March 2007 please click here annual report 2007.pdf (pdf 86K)

To download a copy of The Tubney Charitable Trust’s Annual Report year ending 31 March 2006 please click here annual report 2006.pdf (pdf 86K)

To download a copy of The Tubney Charitable Trust’s Annual Report year ending 31 March 2005 please click here annual report 2005.pdf (pdf 86K)

To download a copy of The Tubney Charitable Trust’s Annual Report year ending 31 March 2004 please click here annual report 2004.pdf (pdf 56K)

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