# Wildlife trust raises £1.4 million to buy nature reserve

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/11/13/wildlife-trust-raises-14-million-buy-nature-reserve/
- Published: 2005-11-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust’s campaign to help it buy Lower Moor Farm generated
over £1.4 million, a record for the environmental charity. It needed to raise at
least £805,000 to buy the 96-acre area.
The Trust’s 17,000 members and other supporters
donated over £113,000 to the fundraising appeal for the farm.

In addition the charity received £1.2 million in grant aid from the Heritage Lottery
Fund, Aggregates Levy, together with donations from the Hills Group and Grantscape,
for purchase and development of the site.

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