SCAMP Submits Ambitious Partnership Bid to The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
After many months of hard work, community conversations, partnership working and sheer determination, the Dumfries and Galloway Council (DGC) SCAMP team has submitted an application to the Landscape Connections programme of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The bid includes projects which aim to deliver coastal and marine restoration, economic benefits to communities, offer opportunities for people to be actively involved through citizen science initiatives and provide learning across all age groups.
Eilish McGuinness, Chief Executive of The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said:
“Landscape Connections is an ambitious initiative and represents a major commitment by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to not only preserve our natural heritage but to reinvigorate and protect it for future generations. As one of the UK’s largest investors in landscapes and natural heritage, we strongly believe that everyone benefits from landscapes rich in nature and beauty.”
This ambitious bid has been closely developed with many partners and, if successful, will be transformational for the Solway Coast’s coastal and marine biodiversity and its communities.
Solway Firth Partnership are working closely with DGC to develop and deliver natural capital marine and coastal projects on saltmarsh, seagrass and native oysters. The bid to the Lottery Fund is key to delivering at seascape scale a science led coastal and marine habitat restoration project which will help our natural world restore, adapt and thrive into the future.
For more information about the project visit the SCAMP website