£400,000, 8 months and a few inches of rain later
ALSF project completion marked at event
The completion of the largest grant funded project in the Cotswold Water Park was marked at an official event at Lakeside Recreation area near South Cerney on Friday June 06.
Funders, artists, volunteers and community groups were invited to a ceremony to mark the completion of the Reedbeds - Access and Community Involvement project. The funders - Natural England through Defra's Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, Sita Trust, Hills Group, Cotswold District Council, Four Pillars Hotel, Gloucestershire County Council, Wiltshire County Council, Arts Council England and Cotswold Water Park Society were all thanked for their support and contributions.
Chief Executive of the CWP Society, Mr Dennis Grant thanked all the funders who have made the vision a reality and said that the Society welcomes the opportunity to working with them all on future exciting projects.
Chairman of the CWP Society Board, Mr Brian Atfield paid tribute to the amazing diversity of the project elements, and the huge range of skills of the people involved, from digger drivers to willow weavers, sculptors to school children, ecologists to engineers.
An exhibition of the project showed what had been achieved, and Matthew Millett, Project Director for the ALSF project cut a cake depicting all the funder's logos.
