Grants – The Areti Charitable Trust

Latest grants awarded

17 January 2019 by The Areti Trust, posted in Grants

The trustees met at the beginning of January to consider recent applications and made the following awards:

Lancashire Youth Challenge for a 5-day walk along Hadrian’s Wall in summer 2019;
Lancaster Boys & Girls Club for 6 outdoor educational activity days during half-terms in 2019;
Lancaster Road Primary School for Year 3 pupils to visit Leighton Moss RSPB wildlife reserve in the summer term;
Marsh Community Centre for a residential outdoor education trip in summer 2019
Morecambe Bay Partnership to work with local primary schools to explore and develop an activity around Sunderland Point, its fishing history and the shoreline during the spring and summer terms;
Morecambe Bay Community Primary School for Year 6 pupils to go on a residential outdoor education trip in the summer term;
Piccadilly Garden to develop holiday club activities in the outdoors.

Morecambe Bay Community Primary School at Leighton Moss

23 May 20185 November 2018 by The Areti Trust, posted in Grants

4B430D66-E7C3-42E7-A320-932CF273E6FA — Year 2s get to grips with binoculars

Forty-five pupils from Morecambe Bay CP School visited RSPB Leighton Moss yesterday to find out about birds and insects and to try out pond-dipping. It was impressive that they already knew about predators and camouflage. Everyone seemed to enjoy it – not least the adults.

More grants awarded

24 April 2018 by The Areti Trust, posted in Grants

The Areti Trust has just made three further grants:

to Lancashire Youth Challenge for this summer’s project on the Caledonian Canal;
to the Loyne Specialist School for residential trips;
to Morecambe Road School for residential adventure trips.

First visits to Leighton Moss take place

20 April 2018 by The Areti Trust, posted in Grants

Children from Skerton St Luke’s CE and West End primary schools were the first groups to visit the RSPB reserve at Leighton Moss. Thirty reception class pupils from St Luke’s and 53 year 3 and 4 pupils from West End visited at the beginning of this week to try out pond dipping and other activities.

Two more primary schools to visit Leighton Moss

25 March 2018 by The Areti Trust, posted in Grants

The Areti Trust is funding two more schools to visit RSPB Leighton Moss bird reserve next term – St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School and Westgate Primary School.

Another primary school to visit Leighton Moss

13 February 201825 March 2018 by The Areti Trust, posted in Grants

The Areti Trust is pleased to report that Sandylands Community Primary School will be visiting Leighton Moss RSPB bird reserve in the summer term.

Primary schoolchildren to visit RSPB Leighton Moss

23 January 201825 March 2018 by The Areti Trust, posted in Grants

The primary aim of the Areti Trust is to put disadvantaged children and young people in touch with the natural world. At the start of this year it wrote to selected local primary schools offering to fund visits to the RSPB reserve at Leighton Moss, and it is delighted to have received its first application from Morecambe Bay Primary School.