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See the article on the BBC News website for full details about a £4m grant for the Flow Country. The Trust supported the initial grant application submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund but it has taken about 12 months to get to this stage. This demonstrates the commitment and pump-priming funding that needed, when pursuing these big grants.
The funding represents a major funding boost for peatland restoration in the Flow Country and will work alongside the £15m of funding being provided by the Scottish Government for the Peatland ACTION project, thick operates throughout Scotland. I am involved with Peatland ACTION through the Peatland Steering Group and Scotland's Moorland Forum and the Forum hopes to provide some input into running events for Peatland ACTION to help link theory to practice.
I am also supporting the development of the Peatland Carbon Code that seeks to develop a protocol that will allow private sector funding to be provided for peatland restoration and carbon capture. This work, which is being sponsored by Defra, covers the UK and I am attending a steering group meeting in London, next week. A key issue in the debate is the role of burning in peatland restoration, which I believe has a role, and this links to the discussions within the Best Practice Burning Group in England.
The Trust is living up to its strap line of "Promoting Integrated Moorland Management"!
