A case study – one of the 1,000 projects we’ve funded.
You can make a big difference with a fairly small donation.
The 80 acre community wood at Hill Holt, Norton Disney, is a powerful case study. We gave it its first £5,000 grant in 2003. Now Hill Holt is a thriving not-for-profit business. It has 12 rangers teaching forestry to excluded kids and young offenders, countryside management contracts with the Council and £500,000 annual turnover. The business is so high profile that it’s attracted visits from Prince Charles, David Cameron and many others. Now Hill Holt is leading the way in eco construction: they head up a network of designers, builders and trainers and they are nearing completion of a conference centre in the woods featuring rammed earth walls, a green roof and a “witches hat” reciprocal roof, recycled materials including sustainable timber from nearby Skellingthorpe Wood and cork from managed forests in Portugal and Spain. Hill Holt also heads up a network of builders, architects and trainers developing the eco village concept.
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