Sustainable Development Fund projects supported in 2006/2007
Ref. No
BA.79
Project
Windy Old Weather 2
BA.80
Ashley Duke of
Edinburgh’s Award 2
BA.81
Swan Scouts Sailing
Expedition
BA.82
Broad Futures 3
BA.83
Heatwave Puppet
Show
BA.84
Ellingham Wind
Turbine
Applicant
Nutmeg
Puppet
Company
The Ashley
School
Description
Free delivery of ‘Windy Old Weather’ puppet shows and six
associated workshops to five Broads schools in early 2006/07.
A project that will help young people with special needs, many
of whom are socially or financially disadvantaged, to go on
canoeing expeditions in the Broads as they work towards their
DoE Awards.
Nene District
The ‘Swan’ is one of several ‘Cruises’ that take place in the
Scout
Broads each Easter. It involves 18 yachts and 52 young
Association
people (mostly Scouts). The SDF grant will fund RYA Assistant
Instructor training for two young people (16 and 17 year olds)
who will assist during the 2006 Cruise and for some years to
come.
Norfolk
The final stage of Broad Futures. BF3 will offer Learning for
Environmental Sustainability support to more Broads schools, introduce LfS2
Education
to Early Years teaching, develop LfS2 resources for secondary
Service
schools and provide LfS2 training for another 62 Broads
teachers. The project will also develop LfS2 documentation that
can be shared with schools in Norfolk and elsewhere in the UK.
Nutmeg
Development and production of a puppet show and teachers’
Puppet
pack addressing climate change, rising sea levels and the
Company
concept of managed retreat. The project consists of 15 public
shows in the Broads - two of them in vulnerable coastal
communities - and 15 shows and 20 workshops in Broads
schools.
Ellingham VC
Part funding of a 5kW wind turbine that is expected to generate
Primary School most the electricity the school uses each year. The project,
which is supported by the local community, will help an already
‘green’ school achieve an additional carbon saving of 7 tonnes
Grant
£995
£776
£405
£24,059
£11,113
£5,671
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Project
Applicant
BA.85
Cormorants Bursary
Scheme 1
The
Cormorants
BA.86
The Green Boat Show
A Silent Sensation
2006
The Broads
Society
BA.87
Eco-friendly Hull
Cleaning
Galleon
Storage &
Mooring
BA.88
A Sense of Place
BTCV
BA.89
Carlton Marshes Local
Community Project
Suffolk Wildlife
Trust
BA.90
Boats for a
Sustainable Future The EcoBoat Project:
Phase 3 - Design
Anglia
Boatbuilders’
Association
Description
per annum.
Part funding of a bursary scheme that allowed the Cormorants
to offer subsidised places on its 2006 sailing holiday to five
young people with special needs who would otherwise have
been unable to participate.
An educational event at Salhouse Broad that will promote
‘green’ boating in particular and ‘green’ ways of enjoying The
Broads in general. The free public show will include boat trips
and demonstrations plus information and advice on
sustainability issues.
Part funding of innovative boatyard development where boats
will be stored out of water or in ‘air’ berths and anti-fouling paint
discouraged. The SDF funding is specific to a WashTek
decontamination facility that removes heavy metals and toxins
from hull wash water and is the first of its kind in Europe.
Majority funding of a project that will introduce 25
disadvantaged young people to the Broads and to Broadsrelated activities and encourage them to use their five main
senses to compare their impressions of special places in the
Broads with those gained in their own communities.
A ‘Community Education Officer’ project that will encourage
adults and young people to access the Nature Reserve,
provide specific opportunities for young people to take an
active part in conservation work and run a series of ‘sustainable
living’ events at Carlton Marshes. Other project aims include
the recruitment of more adult conservation volunteers and a
community Green Fair in 2007.
Majority funding for Phase 3 of the Anglia (formerly Norfolk and
Suffolk) Boatbuilders’ Association EcoBoat project. Building on
the successes of the Phase 1 and 2 research work carried out
in BA.35, the project will deliver a design and specification for a
Grant
£340
£1,000
£12,500
£7,000
£4,875
£4,250
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Project
Applicant
BA.91
BeWILDerwood Electric Boats
Bure Valley
Adventures
BA.92
Reedcutting
equipment for HLF
Bursary Scheme
Graduates
Broads Reed
and Sedge
Cutters
Association
BA.93
Sensory Experience
Fairhaven
Garden Trust
Description
‘minimum carbon’ EcoBoat and produce a display.
Conversion to electric of the three ferry boats that are used to
transport visitors from the car park to the main woodland
activities centre at BeWILDerwood.
100% funding for a basic outfit of reed and sedge harvesting
machinery, which will be used by a reedcutter graduate of the
HLF Reed, Sedge, Fens and Mills Bursary Scheme when
he/she joins the Association. The equipment will remain the
property of the Association and the reedcutter concerned will
contribute towards its eventual replacement.
Funding of the ‘inclusion’ elements of a major tourism
development at Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden.
These include hearing loops and Braille panels and hand
guides for hearing and sight impaired visitors to the Sensory
Garden and the new Boat House facility.
Grant
£9,000
£3,278
£4,000