Registered Charity No. 702429
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Registered Charity No. 702429 |
CUT BOTH WAYS
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| ERDF grant Keen readers will have followed the saga of the long-awaited release of the remaining 10% retention from our total grant of £779,580 agreed several years ago which is needed to pursue our restoration programme. In particular, it formed part of our plans for the final payment of £50,000 to Staffordshire County Council for the Birmingham Road culvert (depicted in CBW 51). Thanks to the Council taking a more relaxed approach to the contract stage payments, and new income adding to our resources, the bill was paid on time. Just as well as we still await the funds from Government Office: bureaucracy has a mysterious life form of its own! |
SCC Aggregates Levy Grant for Borrowcop Locks Canal Park
Better news is that our application to Staffordshire County Council for a new grant to assist with development of the Lichfield Canal at Tamworth Road succeeded in getting approval for £36,000. However, it has to be spent before March 2008! The Trust has taken the view that it is likely to be several years before the section at Tamworth Road can be completed as a water channel. To avoid a continuing “brownfield” appearance, an interim scheme is being adopted to expand and develop the site as an amenity area branded as “Borrowcop Locks Canal Park”. The former Green Arc Partnership commissioned Fira Ltd, landscape specialists in Birmingham, to assist the Trust with a professional design which would enable the Darwin Walk footpath to be extended along the canal towpath past Lock 26, connecting with the Tamworth Road by the A38 bridge. This entails installing a new permanent footbridge by Lock 25, suitable for disabled users, which is now close to final design stage with an imaginative approach to integrating various features of the site for public enjoyment. Please refer to the design reproduced below.
IWA grant
A large part of the above work will be rebuilding the towpath wall below Lock 26. We have the specification, and funding, but will need brick-layers and labourers. To assist them, the Inland Waterways Association West Midlands Region Committee has kindly agreed to donate some funds held since the 2004 National Festival at Burton-on-Trent for the Trust to purchase new equipment to mechanise that effort. If you can lay bricks, or want to be taught the skill, please call me: 01543 671427.
Great Barr Science College
Further to the report in the last issue, they’ve been back to do more. Funded independently for out-of-classroom studies, students put in a lot of effort preparing the ground and planting daffodil bulbs in the area above Lock 24. Arranged by Mike Battisson and Geoff Crook for the Trust, supervised by Andrew Williams, Head of Environmental Science at the College and Education Officer for the Trust, the students learned the correct way of planting and will now look forward to returning in the Spring to see the result of their labours.
Lichfield Canal land purchase Bob Williams Director (Finance)
Funding is not just incoming, but also outgoing. Mr Jack Moody, the principal behind the ownership of the field between Lock 26 and Tamworth Road (see CBW 52, page 8) has kindly agreed a sale of the part needed to divert the Lichfield Canal channel alongside the A38. This is most fortuitous and timely as it forms part of the landscape scheme described above. The Trust has a restricted Land Fund to which many members have contributed to meet such outlay. “Don’t you love it when a plan comes together”. If you have felt like joining the work parties at Tamworth Road, there is a lot to do, money to spend quickly. Whatever your skills, come along and be part of this wave of success. NOW is our time of need. Here it is again, 01543 671427.
Trust & Marketing
| Mr J Moreton (with sub.) | £90.00 | Mr H J Y Pringle (with sub.) | £105.00
| Mr R W Lloyd-Hart (with sub.) | £24.00 | Mr P R Newman (with sub.) | £35.00
| Greyhound Boat Club (share of closure dispersal) | £250.00 | Mr G H Thompson (with sub.) | £50.00
| Mr A V H Gulvin (with sub.) | £85.00 | Mr R F Kilsby (with sub.) | £25.00
| Mr D B Shipman (with sub.) | £35.00 | Mr G L Blackmore (with sub.) | £25.00
| Mrs B Bate in lieu stall at Huddlesford | £29.37 | Lichfield 41 Club (talk) | £50.00
| Mr J Moody (donated rent) | £150.00 | Dr T Hollingworth | £448.20
| Lichfield Running Club; water station | £100.00 | Mr P C Magee (returned expenses) | £75.00
| Aggregated donations below £20 each | £186.00 |
| Restoration & Land Fund
| Mr N A May | £250.00 | Mr David Stanistreet | £90.00
| Regular donors to appeals | £415.00 |
| The David Suchet Appeal
| Dr J L Bonsall (pledge) | £300.00 | Mr F W P Lea | £100.00
| Dr J R Massy | £250.00 | Mr H H Wiseman | £100.00
| Mr C D Gibson | £100.00 | Mr & Mrs R Griffiths-Jones | £50.00
| Regular donors to appeals | £1,378.50 | |
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We are very grateful to the following:-
- Jaguar & Land Rover Group [JLR] Corporate Citizenship Scheme participants for 33 man-days work on five separate Lichfield Canal projects in September.
- Anonymous donation of a new brush-cutter / hedge-trimmer machine.
- IROBB Ltd, Nether Whitacre for materials to support a JLR project.
- Murray & Willis Ltd, Cannock for materials to support a JLR project.
- Essex waterway recovery group volunteers week-end visit.
- Kent & East Sussex Canal Restoration Group week-end visit.
- Chase Demolition Solutions Ltd for supply of reclaimed bricks.
- Chasetown Civil Engineering Ltd for materials transport.
For details about our Regular Giving Scheme
contact Bob Williams Tel 01543 671427
Norfolk House, 29 Hall Lane, Hammerwich, Burntwood, WS7 0JP
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