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Streatham Community Woodland Project
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Streatham Community Woodland Project
By Streatham Common Co-operative (SCCoop)
The project will protect the woodland habitats for future generations and increase the wildlife and habitats. The activities will give the communities skills, knowledge and a sense of belonging.
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Pledges will only be charged if the project hits its funding goal of £25,300 by 26 May 2020
The project sets out increase the wildlife and prevent decline of the woodland from water erosion and trampling. The construction of a wild trial pathway through the woods and fenced habitats areas to allows wildlife to thrive and provide areas of additional interest for all users of the Common. The project’s activities aims to inspire long-term volunteer involvement with the woods and nature reserve , building relationships with people whilst build habitats for wildlife. the groups are a cross section of society. These group would include local primary schools colleges, groups with social difficulties including local homeless charities.
What we'll deliver:
- Create new Pathway steps
- Build pathways for wildlife trial
- Planting and taking care of trees
- Building insect hotels and Stag beetle loggeries
- Create fenced habitats
- Hedgerow planting
- Building seasonal ponds to slow down water flow
Why it's a great idea:
Is essential for the wildlife to thrive in the woodland. Making it a resilient habitat, with the pressures from climate extremes and trampling, allowing access to all aspects of the community to enjoy wildlife and well-being. Improved biodiversity will be improved through a series of activities delivered by our volunteers under the guidance of the Head Ranger. Scrub and brambles will be cleared to allow more light to penetrate and enable other plant species to populate the woodland floor. There will be removal of invasive species from the woodland area and improvement of the soils where needed. Following that we will plant young indigenous trees, other understorey woodland plants and meadow plants to enhance butterfly and other insect numbers. New hedgerows will also be created to form an enhanced corridor beyond the woods. The project will bring the wider community closer and broaden the reach of the woodland to many that may not know of its existence.
Steps to get it done:
- Organised volunteer groups and activities
- Purchase essential equipment and tools
- Deliver workshops, classes and workdays
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How will the money be spent?Total £25,300
Costs Breakdown
This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. These costs have been confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified.
37%
Session leader-
£9,360
18%
Fencing and posts
£4,629
8%
Tools Required for project
£1,996
6%
Bulbs
£1,500
6%
Trees
£1,500
6%
Plants
£1,500
4%
Mulch
£989
2%
Sleeper oak
£475
2%
Computer & case
£440
1%
Safe Wardrobe
£292
Overfunding
This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on: We would spent the overfund on - post and fences - sleepers for steps for pathway - self bidding gravel - Tools - increase in deliver of session classes and workshops - plants and trees
Total £25,300
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We are the Streatham Common Co-operative (SCCoop), a community run social enterprise managing all the services from gardening and litter picking the events in the Streatham Rookery since 2015. Currently, we are the only community group with direct responsibility for managing a Lambeth Park and one of only a few in London.
In 2016, we took over the Paddling Pool on Streatham Common saving it from closure, and in 2017 started regular conservation work in the Streatham Common Local Nature Reserve (LNR). In 2018 we started work to restore the cascade co-funded by money SCCoop has raised from the community, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Lambeth.
The Streatham LNR is the only LNR in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is surrounded by some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in the country where often access to open space and nature is limited.
Over 50% of Streatham Common is designated as a Local Nature Reserve, it is designated for extensive woodland, acidic, meadow and wet grasslands and standing and fallen dead wood habitat.
Our aim is to build on our success to date and provide a greater range of services and events for all users of Streatham Common, whilst improving the range of habitats within this unqiue LNR for the diverse local wildlife.
Project Delivery Manager: Streatham Common Co-operative (SCCoop) The Project Delivery Manager takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.