SITA Trust distributes funding through the Landfill Communities Fund (LCF) which is donated by the waste management company, SITA UK.
Banovallum Carr, Horncastle
Banovallum Carr was planted in spring 2001 as part of a planting event involving local people and BBC Radio Lincoln. The wood name was chosen by the local community and is named after the roman town that became Horncastle. It is situated at Horncastle in the Lincolnshire Wolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the Viking Way passes nearby.
This project will enable 25 hectares of wet woodland to be created by 2015 which will encourage and sustain wildlife.
Whittle Dene, Ovingham
Whittle Dene is on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, near to the River Tyne. Historic coppicing at Whittle Dene, which is a practice used by cutting trees to ground level, opens up the canopy and allows the light through to the forest floor which encourages the native ground flora such as bluebells, primrose and wild garlic to grow. It is unusual to find hazel coppiced, and the coppiced material is moved around with the assistance of a shire horse and a Percharon (a breed of French draught horse).
The wood is an ancient semi natural oak-ash also containing sycamore, beech and elm with some conifers.