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A recently extended patch of heathland and woodland, neighbouring Wyming Brook.
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Think of a number and multiply it by ten. This could be the value of your gift to local wildlife.
It might sound too good to be true, but your donation can be the key to unlocking funding worth thousands of pounds to make a huge difference to local wildlife.
For example, if you give £100, it could release funds of up to £1,000 – it’s as simple as that!
Our Acorn Fund is a pot of money allocated specifically to help release funds from the Landfill Communities Fund. If we are able to raise £10,000 each year for this fund, it will enable us to unlock potential funding of up to £100,000 annually to benefit our nature reserves across Sheffield and Rotherham.
Landfill site operators pay tax when they bury waste. Some of this money goes into the Landfill Communities Fund, which we can then apply for to support vital nature conservation work in Sheffield and Rotherham.
Competition for these grants is high, and even when we secure an offer there can be one last hurdle to jump. These grants frequently require additional funds (otherwise known as a Third Party Contribution) to unlock them – usually an extra 10% from supporters – and this is often required within a tight deadline.
We aren’t allowed to use the Trust’s existing funds for this contribution and without it, the offer is taken off the table.
Please consider giving a gift to our Acorn Fund to unlock future funding.
• Landfill operators receive a 90% tax credit against payments to organisations like us – so we can fund projects that meet agreed criteria.• To unlock the funding, we need a third party to contribute the missing 10% tax.• The third party must be completely independent from us.• Entrust, the Landfill Community Fund Regulator, allows us to collect these funds on your behalf (unfortunately gift aid cannot be claimed on these gifts).• For every £100 we receive, we will be able to unlock £1,000 of funding