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New Forest Heritage Trust
Love the Forest has awarded a grant to the New Forest Heritage Centre, a museum, gallery and reference library dedicated to sharing the history and traditions of the New Forest.
Located in Lyndhurst, the centre is free to enter and attracts more than 200,000 visitors a year. Its exhibits, collections and education service play a vital role in promoting conservation and educating visitors and residents.
The Heritage Centre also houses the Christopher Tower Reference Library which boasts one of the most comprehensive collections of material about the New Forest open to the public, including sections dedicated to individual towns and villages.
This grant will allow the New Forest Heritage Centre continue its vital work following a very difficult period where they have had to close due to lock down restrictions.
The New Forest Non-Native Plants Project
Love the Forest has awarded a grant of £5,000 to assist with work to remove invasive plants in the New Forest to help wildlife and waterways thrive.
The grant has been awarded to the New Forest Non-Native Plants Project (NFNNPP), which works to restore and conserve the Forest’s special habitats by stopping the spread of invasive non-native plants and raising awareness about the damage they cause to the environment and the economy.
The NFNNPP is a partnership project hosted by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and currently supported by the Our Past, Our Future Landscape Partnership Scheme, a National Lottery Heritage Fund scheme led by the New Forest National Park Authority, which ends this year.
It works with local communities and organisations and is supported by hundreds of volunteers who have helped remove huge swathes of invasive non-native plants such as Himalayan balsam, from New Forest riverbanks, allowing wild flowers to flourish.
New Forest Smooth Snake Survey
One of the projects we are supporting is the New Forest Smooth Snake survey. The smooth snake is Britain’s rarest reptile and one of the few places it can be found is the New Forest.
This is a volunteer based project which aims to further the distribution knowledge of the smooth snake in the New Forest National Park.
More about this project can found at: www.arc-trust.org/new-forest-smooth-snake-survey
