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to Skerton Community Association for their youth club’s residential trip this summer.

The latest grants awarded:

• £1,578 to Litfest
• £8,895 to LESS for Where The Wildings Are!
• £8,150 to St John’s Hospice
• £10,000 to Escape2Make
• £18,000 to Rewilding Roots
• £4,950 to Lancashire Youth Challenge
• £18,294 to Morecambe Bay Partnership for their Wild Blue Yonder project
• £7,500 to Marsh Community Centre
• £1,000 to Westgate Primary School
• £16,000 to Skerton St Luke’s Primary School for a forest school

The Areti Trust has made further grants as follows:

• £10,450 to Morecambe Bay Partnership to develop teachers’ knowledge in “using” the natural environment within the curriculum and their skill in taking children on outdoor visits.
• £26,000 to ReWilding Roots to enable four more schools to join the Where the Wildings Are project.

The following grants were awarded at the beginning of July:

• £1,805 to Skerton Community Association for a residential outdoor course
• £734.80 to St Mary’s Primary School for a visit to Martin Mere
• £5,000 to Lancashire Boys and Girls Club for summer activities
• £2,580 to Outward Bound for some Dallas Road Primary School pupils to attend an outdoor course
• £710.53 to Wilson’s Endowed Primary School for forest school equipment
• £1,623 to Litfest for activities at Leighton Moss

The Trust has recently made another grant of £14,908 to Morecambe Bay Partnership to support school visits to various sites in the Arnside/Silverdale area.

At the beginning of 2025 The Areti Trust awarded the following grants:

• £29,000 to ReWilding Roots for two more schools to join Where the Wildings Are, and for two Wilderness Schools.
• £9,300 to Escape2Make for their Heritage Festival and the DoE programme.
• £3,927 to Marsh Community Centre for an outdoor residential.
• £1,433 to Litfest to engage young people in the natural world through literature.
• £380.99 to Trumacar Primary School for a “shedlet” for outdoor activities.
• £3,000 to Arnside Sailing Club to encourage young people onto the water.
• £7,891 to Lancashire Youth Challenge for their “Time to Breathe” youth cafe.
• £18,294 p.a. to Morecambe Bay Partnership for this and the following two years to create a sustained programme of outdoor and environmental Youth Social Action for KS2/3 pupils.

The following grants were made in July 2024:

• £4,680 to Sandylands Primary School for a residential trip to the Lake District
• £150 to Yealand Primary School towards their forest school site
• £6,560 to St John’s Hospice for Outdoor Bereavement Therapy for young people
• £2,580 to the Outward Bound Trust for 12 children from Dallas Road Primary School to attend an outdoor residential course
• plus an earlier £2,815 to Lancaster Boys and Girls Club for outdoor activities.

There has been a few more applications, meaning that the Areti Trust has spent all its income for the first half of 2023:

• £6,000 to Red Marsh Special School to improve their outdoor learning environment.
• £240 to St Patrick’s Primary School towards an countryside classroom day at Abbeystead.
• £5,279 to Marsh Community Centre for outdoor residential activities.
• £2,000 to Lancashire Boys and Girls Clubs for outdoor activities.

The Areti Charitable Trust has awarded grants as follows:

• £24,000 to Where the Wildings Are! for their school-based activities around growing food and improving space for wildlife.
• £8,188 to Lancashire Youth Challenge for outdoor activities.
• £15,000 to Escape2Make for their 2024 Big Green Festival.
• £17,931.59 to Larksfoot CIC for holiday forest schools for disadvantaged youngsters.

The Areti Trust has matched expenditure with income this year by making two further grants:

• To Litfest for next year’s festival combining the Big Read with a visit to Leighton Moss.
• A contribution to St John’s Primary School, Galgate, for their larger Forest School project.