Sponsors
Local Heritage Initiative
The Local Heritage Initiative is a joint initiative of the Countryside Agency, Nationwide and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The Local Heritage Initiative helps communities bring their local heritage
alive. It helps them care for the special features that make each locality
as unique as a fingerprint. It gives communities funds, advice and support
to do this. At the same time, it is collecting records and stories from
the projects to create a national archive of England's rich and diverse
local heritage. This means that future generations can enjoy today's local
heritage too.
The Countryside Agency
The Countryside Agency is the statutory champion and watchdog working
to make:
- The quality of life better for people in the countryside
- The quality of the countryside better for everyone
Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund enables all of us to celebrate, look after
and learn more about our diverse heritage. From our great museums and
historic buildings to local parks or recording and celebrating traditions
and customs, HLF grants open up our nation's heritage for everyone to
enjoy.
Groups Involved in CEAG
Cottenham Village Design Group
The Cottenham Village Design Group was formed in 1993, with assistance
from the Countryside Commission, to give local people a voice in helping
to protect and enhance the Village and its environment in the face of
change and expansion. http://www.cvdg.org/
Cottenham Wildlife Group
The Group is the Cottenham Area Group of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough Wildlife Trust and nominally covers the catchment area of Cottenham Village College - some 150 + members of the Trust are resident in that area.
Events (of whatever nature) are open to all members of the Trust and
the public but are generally centred on Cottenham Village College and
aimed at the local membership. In that way the Group is the local focus
of the Trust and aims to service the local members [and members of the
local public] by providing indoor and outdoor wildlife-related events,
local specialist knowledge in various aspects of natural history, access
to many other sources of information , a two-way communication link with
the Trust, etc.
Events include illustrated talks and workshops, guided walks, plant sales
and reserve work parties.
Contact: Peter Pilbeam 01954-251544
Cottenham Footpath Group
Cottenham Footpath Group, started in 1985, is a loose association of local people with an interest in walking. We have no committee and no formal membership but we are members of the Fen Edge Community Association. We organise seven or eight local walks a year and two weekends away in areas different from our own, involving around 100 participants each year.
We do an annual survey of all the local footpaths, coordinate these findings, report them to the County Council and apply for an annual grant to have necessary repairs carried out. This includes construction and maintenance of stiles and cutting of the grass during the summer months.
Our map of local footpaths was first published seven years ago, since
when approximately 3000 copies have been distributed.
Other Acknowledgements
cottenhamvillagecollege.org/
Cottenham Village College
The Curwen Print Studio
