Ashdown Forest’s Hundred Year Legacy Fund
As we celebrate one hundred years since the first publication of A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories, The Ashdown Forest Foundation has created a new legacy fund to ensure that Ashdown Forest is protected long into the future.
The fund supports four essential pillars for the Forest: Conservation Projects, Community, Maintenance & Management, and Landscape Strategy.
The Next Generation Conservation Group
The Foundation is proud to be supporting Ashdown Forest’s new Next Generation Conservation Group, providing funding from our James Adler Memorial Fund.
The scheme is designed to help new conservationists make the leap from a personal passion or qualification to employment in the conservation sector.
James, the late CEO of Ashdown Forest, was passionate about ensuring that young people have as much opportunity as possible to develop careers in conservation, and we are proudly supporting this scheme to carry on James’s legacy.
Conservation Grazing
The Foundation is proud of it’s ongoing support for Conservation Grazing on Ashdown Forest. For the last three years, we have provided funding to help maintain the Forest’s herd of Exmoor ponies, including buying equipment and providing veterinary support.
Grazing is a natural and sensitive way of managing heathland in conjunction with other methods, and has proved highly successful on Ashdown Forest.
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We are searching for 100 Corporate Guardians to help protect Winnie-the-Pooh’s beloved home for the next century.
Your business can help us build a 100 Year Legacy Fund with the aim of ensuring that this extraordinary landscape, 10 square miles of lowland heathland, ancient woodland and fragile ecological habitats, is protected and thrives for generations to come
