Safeguarding Ashdown Forest for the next 100 Years
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 Forest’s precious heathland landscape is rarer than tropical rainforest and supports many rare and vulnerable species. The ecology is important, but the Forest also provides a vital resource for enjoyment, education, health and recreation for local communities and visitors to the area.
Inspired by the 100th anniversary of our most famous resident, Winnie-the-Pooh, we have launched a new fund; the Ashdown Forest Hundred Year Legacy Fund.
The goal is to establish a long-term funding pot that will support the Forest for future generations and all the species that live within it.
The Ashdown Forest 100 Year Legacy Fund
Maintenance &
Management
The forest demands on-going maintenance. This pot helps to fund equipment, infrastructure and on-going management.
Community
Ashdown Forest is for everyone. This pot will fund projects to promote accessibility and education as well as supporting local communities.
Conservation
Projects
Supporting conservation projects that protect sensitive habitats, protected and vulnerable species.
Landscape Strategy
Projects supporting the future of Ashdown Forest such as habitat connectivity with the wider landscape and land purchase.
