# The Wildlife Trusts receive record £2.8 million Tubney grant

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/11/24/wildlife-trusts-receive-record-28-million-tubney-grant/
- Published: 2010-11-24T08:09:10+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Tubney Charitable Trust is to donate £2.8 million over five years to The Wildlife
Trusts for its 50 year vision for A Living Landscape.

In 2008, The Wildlife Trusts celebrated 112 Living Landscape schemes with almost
one fifth having benefited from funding from The Tubney Charitable Trust. Each scheme
aims to help secure a healthy natural environment for generations to come.

René Olivieri, Chair of The Tubney Charitable Trust, said: “We believe The Wildlife
Trusts can provide the leadership and practical advice to inform public policy and
guide local action. Only through coordinated action at all levels and between all
those with a stake in the countryside, our towns and cities too, can we improve 
habitats and safeguard our precious, unique biodiversity.”

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The funding is announced on the same day that [Simon King OBE, wildlife programme-maker](http://www.simonkingwildlife.com),
cameraman, photographer and presenter, is to be appointed as its President. He follows
in the footsteps of previous Presidents such as Professor Aubrey Manning, Professor
David Bellamy and Sir David Attenborough. King is also President of Avon Wildlife
Trust and Patron of Somerset Wildlife Trust.

[The Tubney Charitable Trust](http://www.tubney.org.uk) is a grant-making charity
seeking to support activities that have a long-term, sustainable, positive impact
on the biodiversity of the UK and on the welfare of farmed animals in the UK and
internationally. In accordance with the wishes of the founders, Miles and Briony
Blackwell, the Charity has a limited life and is spending both its income and its
capital to achieve its objectives. The Trust therefore does not accept unsolicited
applications.

www.wildlifetrusts.org

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