Grants and Gifts
BWT is grateful for all practical help and for grants and gifts, large and small, without which the Trust could not have succeeded.
A mobile phone to facilitate contact with BWT work parties on the move was kindly donated by Kevin Reynolds, a BWT Maintenance Volunteer in memory of his uncle Mr Lionel Reynolds [formerly of Harrow] who died in July 2010. Mr Reynolds was a lover of wildlife and the countryside and his family felt the donation was something their uncle would have supported. The number is on our Contact Page.
Paths and gradients. BWT thank John Evans, of Evans and Langford Consulting Engineers, who designed routes for the paths to minimise the steep gradients involved in joining BWT land on both sides of the new bridge, and also provided technical expertise for the bridge construction. They are grateful also to Mr and Mrs Browne, who gave a strip of land to enable the widening of one of the paths. And to J.Dowle Fencing who supply wood chips for planting and paths.
Major grants received include:-
2005
Collyer Ferguson Trust £5,000 for specific projects
Woodland Trust £1,805
KPMG £250
2006
Living Spaces £24,700
Local Heritage Countryside Agency £18,923 to be spread over three years
Alan Demain £10,000 for a wooded area in memory of his late wife Eledwyn
Awards for All £4,989
Bearsted Fayre £1,750
KCC Members of £1,132
Philips Trust £500
Action Earth £100
2007
Biffa £48,684
Bridge Appeal individual donations total £13,559
Grant from KCC to remove old bridge £1,200
Cobtree Charity Trust £1,000
Bearsted Fayre £400 for benches
Maidstone Rotary Club £300
International Tree Foundation £150
Woodland Trust £100
Bearsted History Society £100
Bearsted Brownies £82
2008
National Lottery People's Millions £77,892
Rail Link Countryside Initiative £1,099
Maidstone Borough Councillor Pat Marshall £700
The Body Shop Green Project Fund £1,000
2009
Barn Appeal Gifts totalled £22,398 and included:-
£1,000 from Councillor Paul Carter
£4,000 from Awards For All
£500 from The Potted Garden nursery
Visual Presentation Equipment Fund contributions from:-
Bearsted Veterinary Surgery
Bearsted Parish Council
Richard Ash & Allan Bradshaw (devolved budgets)
Paul Carter (KCC member community grant)
Maidstone Soroptomists
Moira Mitchell Media Ltd.
