Partnerships

 

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The Cotswold Lakes Trust is the only body which represents the whole area of the Cotswold Lakes, and we can only do this with the support of local authorities, communities, businesses and other organisations.

We work with various groups on many projects such as access improvements, community events, local volunteer groups, habitat creation and much more.

Mineral Companies

The Trust works with many of the local mineral operators – providing advice about restoration once the gravel has been extracted, help with habitat creation such as reedbed and native hedge planting, carry out year round wildlife monitoring on their sites, and assist with any access issues. We have also worked with them to offer public quarry tours, school visits and occasionally fossil hunts, and the Trust has been very fortunate to receive funding through the Landfill Community Fund from Hills Group. See below examples of the work we have done with some of the mineral companies currently operating within the Cotswold Lakes.

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Shipston High students at Hills Dryelaze

Hills Group

We are extremely grateful to Hills Group for their ongoing support of the work of the Trust, in the form of Landfill Communities Fund – this funding has a very real and positive impact on the landscape of the Cotswold Lakes in that it helps fund the Ranger team, the upkeep of several key public sites, provides funding for capital projects such as the improvements at Riverside Park Lechlade, and also enables the Trust to secure match funding from other sources.

Hills Group are also a great advocate of community engagement, and we work with them to provide access for school groups (eg Shipston High School GCSE students studying the impact of quarrying), local media, educational resources (Hills Shorncote was one of the sites for the making of Gravel is Great DVD), quarry tours for Cotswold Lakes Trust members, and access for wildlife surveys to name a few things.

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mineral parnters

Aggregate Industries

The AI staff of Cleveland Farm Works have been involved is assisting the Trust Ranger team in much needed improvements around Cleveland Lakes, by providing materials, man power and machinery to help with footpath repairs, and installation and landscaping of picnic benches. We are really grateful for their enthusiasm and hard work – this type of partnership which should serve as an excellent example and model for the Cotswold Lakes as a whole.

 

Other mineral local mineral companies with whom we liaise, advise and work alongside:

  • Hanson Heidelberg Cement
  • Moreton C Cullimore Ltd
  • Tarmac

Partner Organisations

Alongside the local community groups, the councils, and businesses, we also work closely with several statutory bodies who are represented in the Cotswold Lakes. The Trust coordinates the Nature Conservation Forum, a representative body which works across the whole area.

Partner organisations include the following:

  • Cotswold Canals Trust
  • Environment Agency
  • Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
  • Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
  • Natural England
  • RSPB
  • Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
  • Cotswolds National Landscape
  • Wiltshire & Swindon Community Foundation

If you would like to find out more about how we work alongside these organisations, or would like to suggest ways we could work with you, just drop us an email and we will be pleased to have a chat.