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getting our hands dirty
 ...and we helped two of our Ambassadors, Pollaughan Farm Cottages and Cornwall Classic Car Hire plant trees as they embarked on a joint project to offset the CO2 emmissions from Cornwall Classic Car Hire. Working with a group of Truro College students we planted a woodland in the grounds of Pollaughan farm. . . And in 2006 with funding from the AONB Sustainable Development Fund we completed a partnership project between CoaST, the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership, Cornwall County Council (CCC), Tregothnan Estates' Treloan Coastal Farm, The Cornwall Disability Forum (CDF), the Guild of Cornish Hedgers and the Community of Portscatho to improve part of a Public Footpath and Coast Path within the Roseland AONB site.
The aim was to raise awareness of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty as a landscape by improving this public right of way trail above and beyond the Councils statutory duty, to make it more accessible to more of the population, opening it up to families with pushchairs, less mobile members of the community and many people for whom the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or the coast is not usually accessible. It was hard work, and involved enormous amounts of work to ensure everyone was involved as they needed to be - but utterly worth the effort. The picture shows members of the local community sussing out the land that needed to be improved to enhance the access. Quote of the Day
"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC |
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We are more than happy to roll our sleeves up and did just that at the Royal Cornwall show 3 years ago, helping kickstart a new dawn of recycling on site with many other partners - the Environment Agency, Biffa, Recycle for Cornwall, RCS, North Cornwall DC and Cornwall County Council. It involved hot, filthy days staffing and emptying full recycling bins, bin-diving to get the good stuff out of piles of rubbish, and 18 hour days...talk about waste anoraks...just can't bear to see stuff go to waste!
We even all shared an award for it....(once we'd all had a shower and smartened up a little...)