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Countryside Education Trust
The Trust provided funds to create a sensory garden at the Countryside Education Trust in Beaulieu. The sensory garden allows people to get hands on with nature; feeling, smelling and even tasting the different plants.
The Countryside Education Trust’s mission is to connect young people with nature, farming and rural life.
A-Z of Commoning and the New Forest
We produce and distribute thousands of copies of our A-Z guide of to help people learn more about the commoning animals, New Forest way of life and the rules of the area to help keep everybody safe.
If you would like a paper copy of our A-Z or think you can help stock or distribute it then please contact us
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Publicity for Ponies
The New Forest Trust provided a contribution towards running the costs of the New Forest Pony Publicity Group, which has taken on the important task of promoting New Forest Pony breed.
A New Forest Pony can make a delightful second stage riding pony for children because they are no taller than 15 hands. Also a “Forester” can have all the characteristics needed to survive on open heaths through the winter, feeding on gorse and holly. This makes it an ideal pony to introduce on to heaths elsewhere in the country where conservation is important.
The New Forest Pony Publicity Group provides information online to encourage private sales and they spend time at shows and events throughout the UK promoting the breed.
Preventing Animal Accidents
The New Forest Trust commissioned a report on animal accidents; as a result and at the request of the Commoners Defence Association we also paid for and distributed leaflets through local organisations.
The Trust printed and distributed two runs of 15,000 leaflets, the second in conjunction with the British Deer Society New Forest branch. The Commoners Defence Association is particularly concerned about injury and death to livestock. The British Deer Society share the same concern about the loss of deer on New Forest roads.
New Forest History & Archaeology Group
The Trust provided a grant to the New Forest History & Archaeology Group to fund the carbon dating of boiling mounds in the New Forest.
Boiling mounds (burnt stone mounds) are sites where stones were heated in a fire and then dropped into water to boil it. There are over 300 boiling sites in the New Forest (most are from the Bronze age (2,400BC – 700BC) and the Group has been instrumental in helping locate them.
The Group’s work not only adds to our knowledge of the Forest’s past but also enables them to provide advice on the location, to help ensure their protection.
The Group has limited resource and the Trust was pleased to make a donation to support its valuable research work in the Forest.
