Environmental Awareness Scheme awarded grant

11.31.00am BST (GMT +0100) Fri 25th May 2007

Kent County Councillor, Dan Daley has opened the batting for Grants this year with a grant of £1140 to enable the startup of an environmental awareness scheme at Astor of Hever Community School Maidstone.

The scheme, which is part of the BBC's 'Breathing Spaces' project will enable small green spaces on the school campus to be established for wildlife but also for people of all ages to sit and enjoy peaceful surroundings.

The wildlife encouragement element will include bird nesting and bat boxes, butterfly and squirrel feeders, binoculars and books to identify the various species.

Included in the grant is money to buy the necessary tools and equipment to start the work and for bushes, trees and compost.

Dan Daley said "I believe that this is a very important way in which people, young and old, can get to enjoy the wide variety of wildlife that is really abundant in our urban areas. This is a first-class project, and I am pleased to be able to give it encouragement by providing the pump-priming money from my County Council devolved budget allocation".