Our nature reserves, sheep, kids and wildlife
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Walden Countryside - who we are
We are a not-for-profit community interest company. The land at Noakes Grove is owned by Organic Countryside CIC [that's Walden Countryside's official name]. Our other two reserves are on tenancy agreements.
Our main activities centre around our nature reserves but we are not only interested in preserving their wildlife. We are trying to make them more like the Walden Countryside of a century ago:
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Producing local food without the use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers
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Getting people using the land: as volunteer workers or simply enjoying the countryside
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Encouraging children to enjoy, and learn about, their countryside
We are not just about creating and managing nature reserves, we want to:
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Persuade local councils and private land-owners to create more public access to areas of countryside
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Promote access to the countryside by campaigning for public rights of way to be kept accessible and adequately signed
Local Wildlife Sites
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There over a hundred local wildlife sites (mostly in private ownership, some publicly owned) in the northern half of Uttlesford.
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Walden Countryside aims to work with the owners of these sites to maintain and improve their value for wildlife
See full details of the sites in your parish.
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Helping Walden Countryside
We are a small organisation totally dependent on volunteers to do all the administrative and physical work and to raise the funds we need each year,
There are several ways you can help us financially: which one would suit you? |
by donating online (you choose how much, and how often, but we hope you will be able to give about £10 a year). "Friends" get our monthly newsletter via email.
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Help us at no cost to you:
Where do you shop online?
The big names (Amazon, eBay, M & S, John Lewis) or any one of over 4000 other online merchants have all agreed to give us a small percentage of anything you spend with them. All you have to do is register with Easyfundraising.
Just browse online as you normally would and Easyfundraising will tell you when you are visiting a web site that has agreed to give donations to Organic Countryside.
PLEASE visit our Easyfundraising page and sign up. It costs you nothing and will be a huge help to us.
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Buy some shares
It is the shareholders of Organic Countryside CIC (the official name of Walden Countryside) who have provided the funds to buy Noakes Grove. Shareholders get no dividends or other financial benefits but they do own and direct the company. Purchase of a minimum of £100 in shares gives life membership of the company (well more than life, you can hand your shares on to the next generation).
Click for more details.
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ESSEX LOTTERY
Each week a £1 ticket could win you £25,000
It's certain that it will give 50p to fund Noakes Grove
Please visit our page on the Essex lottery web site to find out more and buy your tickets |
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Weekly Prizes |
Odds per ticket |
£25,000 |
1,000,000:1 |
£2,000 |
55,556:1 |
£250 |
5,556:1 |
£25 |
556:1 |
3 extra tickets |
56:1 |
50p to fund Walden Countryside |
Certainty |
Recently one of our supporters won £250 and 3 others have won smaller prizes. Next week it could be you and might be £25,000 |
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