ACORN GREEN

Toy character produced by Tomy helped the Foundation and the Forestry Commission create a children’s woodland area in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire.

ALP ACTION

The Foundation supported an initiative launched by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan to protect the alpine environment.

BIG BIRD RACE

Following the success of the Big Bird Race 2004, the 2005 race started in April with celebrities from the worlds of sport, music and media ‘owning’ runners to highlight the plight of the Albatross.

The race was between seventeen non-breeding juvenile Tasmanian Shy Albatrosses, who had set off from three islands off the coast of Tasmania on their natural annual migration to South Africa. Each Albatross was tagged with a satellite transmitter, to allow researchers and the public to follow their progress over the expected twenty weeks of the race. Information gathered by scientists and ornithologists was to help in the conservation of these endangered birds, while the public were invited to ‘do their bit’ by backing their favourite ‘runner’ knowing that their contribution was helping albatross conservation too.

In June, The RSPB’s Avocet was declared the winner as it had made the furthest progress towards South Africa before it had vanished. On 19th October 2005 His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh presented Bryan Bland of the RSPB a trophy for their winning albatross.

A report issued by the Conservation Foundation on the BBR05 highlighted the extreme threat of extinction that is faced by Albatrosses, particularly the Tasmanian Shy Albatross.
  
BISTO KIDS WONDERFUL WORLD OF NATURE

Schools’ educational projects featuring the Great British Oak and rivers and streams. In assocation with RHM Foods.

CHANNEL 4 AMATEUR NATURALIST

The Foundation produced the pack to accompany this TV series presented by the late Gerald Durrell.

CO-OP COUNTRYSIDE FAMILIES FUND AND SAVE OUR SPECIES CAMPAIGN

Working with the Co-operative Retail Society, the Foundation managed the funding of a variety of wildlife schemes throughout the UK.

COVENT GARDEN'S SPRING RENAISSANCE

The Green Corners allotment was one of the centrepieces of the Covent Garden 2008 Spring Renaissance during which two spectacular 25ft floral peacocks made with living plants and flowers guarded the East Piazza.

  

 

 

 COUNTRY HOUSE AWARDS

Developed in association with estate agents Jackson Stops and Staff and the Sunday Times, awards were made to country houses throughout Britain which had been given new life by conservation work undertaken by their owners.

DAVID BELLAMY CONSERVATION AWARDS

For members of the British Holiday and Home Park Association. Parks were assessed by the Conservation Foundation Assessors, local environmental experts often from county wildlife trusts and by their own visitors in this national scheme.

The annual scheme, which began in 1996, encouraged BH&HPA members to prove their environmental awareness in an award scheme offering gold, silver and bronze awards. 

DUNCAN SANDYS SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMME

A yearly scholarship funded by the Pacific and Asian Travel Association for their members to travel to the UK to study tourism management policies in the built and natural environment in England and Scotland.

ELECTRICITY COUNCIL SPECIAL AWARDS

The Foundation managed a number of environmental schemes undertaken for the specific benefit of disabled people.

ELMS ACROSS EUROPE

Sponsored by Pitney Bowes to help replace elm trees lost through Dutch elm disease, this scheme led to the creation of The Conservation Foundation. Since Elms across Europe was launched in 1979, disease-resistant trees developed at the University of Wisconsin and grown in UK propagation units, have been used to supply many thousands of saplings for planting by individuals and by local authorities. Many schools used the Elms Across Europe education pack to plant a tree and record its growth in a fifty year diary.

In 2009, the Foundation launched a search for surviving Sapporo Autumn Gold elms and in 2010 has started sending native elm saplings to schools who have joined the Great British Elm Experiment to monitor their growth and survival over the years ahead.

 ENVIRONMENT AND THE LAW

Launched in association with the solicitors Lee and Pembertons, the scheme ran from 1990 - 1994 and gave free legal environmental advice through a booklet and telephone help-line.

FORD EUROPEAN CONSERVATION AWARDS

Initiated in 1982 by The Conservation Foundation, with support from the Ford Motor Company, these awards were made to a wide range of projects classified under different categories: Natural Environment;Heritage; and Young People and Conservation Engineering. For almost 20 years large numbers of projects benefited from both the financial support and the publicity the scheme attracted. Originally held just in the UK, the awards became European in 1984 and operated in 34 countries in continental Europe leading to more than 15,000 groups and individuals participating.

IT'S YOUR COMMUNITY

The Conservation Foundation ran the It's Your Community programme for O2 for three years from 2007.

Through the programme the communications company gave cash awards of up to £1000 to projects that rebuild or restore local communities, provide opportunities or enhance the environment.  In its three years donations totalling about £1.5m were made to almost 2500 community groups all over the UK.

The Foundation also set up and ran a volunteer programme which resulted in O2 being awarded the coveted Best for Giving Something Back award in the Sunday Times Best 100 Companies Awards.

It's Your Community went out on a high with a successful exhibition And they say the community is dead staged at The Conservation Foundation's base at the Royal Geographical Society in December and January 2009/10.

TRUSTHOUSE FORTE COMMUNITY CHEST

The Community Chest funded over 200 local environmental projects throughout the UK between 1984 and 1994.

FRIENDS OF ST JAMES

In 2001, whilst helping to prepare an environmental segment for the annual conference of the Bishops of the Church of England in Liverpool, the Foundation became aware of the opportunities to regenerate 10 acres beside the City’s Anglican cathedral. Since then the St James’ Cemetery regeneration project has been developed.

In July 2002 The Friends of St James’ was formed. Anyone is welcome to join, especially those able to help on Saturday workdays. www.stjamescemetery.co.uk   

GREEN CORNERS AWARDS

London is full of gardens, often small and in the most unusual places. In 1991 the Foundation, with London Magazine and the Chelsea Gardener, ran the first Green Corners Awards. Since then, to celebrate the Foundation’s 25th anniversary, the awards were relaunched. Entries and nominations are invited for the 2010 awards now.

INDUSTRY INITIATIVES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

A symposium was organised by The Conservation Foundation in association with the Financial Times and Mazda at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in June 1992.

KAHRS ART AWARDS

The Foundation helped to promote and judge a competition for pictures of trees and woodlands painted by Hampshire art students.

LAST SHOW ON EARTH

Central Television’s two-hour environmental special, sponsored by Oracle Corporation in association with The Conservation Foundation, has been transmitted in over 80 countries and has won several international awards since 1982.

LEDU GUIDES TO THE GREEN ECONOMY

A series of four cassette programmes was produced in association with Sustainable Development Systems for Northern Ireland’s business community providing information and commentary on waste management and packaging, water and energy, environmental law, finance and management systems.

LLOYDS ALERT

In 1993 Lloyds Bank plc linked with The Conservation Foundation to provide financial support for projects initiated by bank employees or members of their family and, as a result, provided financial support to many local projects thoughout the country.

LONDON CHURCHES ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT

The two dioceses serving the London area came together to produce a wide ranging Environmental Audit, which their two Bishops hope will not only be undertaken by every church, but also by schools and other organisations. Designed by LondonScare and supported by The Conservation Foundation.

LONDON INITIATIVE ON THE RUSSIAN AND NIS ENVIRONMENT

The Conservation Foundation launched the London Initiative on the Russian Environment at the Victoria and Albert Museum in November 1993. In 1994 it organised a conference in Suzdal in Russia for European and NIS environmental groups. Funded by Tacis.

LOOK BIRD BOX APPEAL

An on-pack promotion on Look Birdfood enabled The Conservation Foundation and the Forestry Commission to place a large number of bird boxes throughout the UK.

MASTER CLASSES

A series of Master Classes was designed to draw policy makers and planners in government, industry, commerce and science, into the debate on topical environmental issues and their implications for our future social and economic needs. The series was organised in association with the Natural Environment Research Council and supported by Rio Tinto plc.

NATIVE ELM PROGRAMME

Research throughout England has discovered a number of healthy, mature, native elms which appear to be resistant to Dutch elm disease. Cuttings from some of these have been propagated by the Foundation and the first young elms were given to members of the National Farmers Union for experimental planting in their Millennium Avenues. Those who have received young trees are monitoring their trees progress for the next fifteen to twenty years.

NATWEST/DAILY TELEGRAPH TECHNOLOGY AWARDS

This award scheme was introduced in 1990 for companies with products and services designed to combat pollution. The Foundation also published the Environmental Entrepreneurs Guide with the support of the bank.

NEW RENAISSANCE GROUP

The New Renaissance Group was formed in 1996 to stimulate and support a twenty first century agenda for humanity and nature by acting as a catalyst for public debate and action.

OBSERVER TREE APPEAL

Readers of The Observer newspaper provided funds to help repair some of the UK’s parks and gardens damaged in the 1987 hurricane.

PA GOLDEN LEAF AWARDS

Launched in 1990 in association with the PA Consulting Group, awards were made for three years to companies who had achieved business advantage through responsible environmental action.

PARISH PUMP PROGRAMME

The Conservation Foundation’s Parish Pump Programme provided news and information on sustainable living to individuals actively involved in their local communities, both rural and urban, throughout the country. Parish Pump News was a quarterly digest of positive news, information and ideas.

PEOPLE FOR SEALS

Thanks to readers of The People newspaper, the Foundation was able to distribute funds to centres carrying out emergency treatment for seals in 1991 and 1992.

PUFF FABRICS

A range of fabrics, inspired by Puff the Barn Owl, designed by Osborne and Little, produced a royalty for barn owl conservation.

REGISTER OF SKILLS AND CRAFTS

Traditional skills and crafts are being registered in the hope that as many as possible can be perpetuated. We hope to record skills both in the UK and in Europe which are in danger of dying out.

RUDDLES COUNTRYSIDE CAMPAIGN

A promotion for Ruddles Ale this campaign raised funds to: plant trees at a disused mine in Leicestershire; transformed an eyesore swamp into an attractive village pond in Foxholes, North Yorkshire; created a recreational area at Ladywell, Suffolk; made a path for the disabled in Horswell Common in Surrey; restored ponds at Warningscamp, Sussex and at Worplesdon, Surrey and revived an ancient dried-up pond at Cold Norton, Essex.

SCOUTS GREEN  CHARTER

In 1990 the Foundation formulated a Green Charter for Youth for the Scout Assocation which was launched by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace.

THWAITES HERITAGE CAMPAIGN

This campaign was launched by the Lancashire brewer Daniel Thwaites to support traditional crafts such as thatchers, bodgers, clog makers, and blacksmiths.

TIMBER AND FOREST MANAGEMENT SEMINAR

Presented in Brussels in association with the Scottish Hardwood Charter. The Financial Times and the European Commission, the seminar attracted 200 environmentalists, representatives of industry and government officials from twenty -six countries world wide.

WALT DISNEY CHILDREN'S SUMMIT

In 1997 The Conservation Foundation worked closely with the Walt Disney Company (Europe) on the Children’s Charter on Society. 700 children representing 40 countries met at Disneyland Paris to discuss topics relevant to their future. The five-day summit culminated in the presentation of the Children’s Charter to the Director General of UNESCO.

YEWS FOR THE MILLENNIUM

Yews for the Millennium developed from the Yew Tree Campaign and almost ten thousand yews, propagated from 2000 old yew trees, were planted in churchyards, schools, hospitals, prisons and Millennium greens around the country.