The Areti Trust is funding a visit for a class from St Patrick’s to take part in a “Food for Thought” session at Leighton Hall this term. It appears that more and more pupils are being encouraged to look at where food comes from and to learn the basics of how to grow some of it – hopefully laying a foundation for knowledge of the subject that will never leave them.
Category: Grants
Recent grants awarded
- £23,280 to Where the Wildings Are, to support school grounds for food growing and biodiversity.
- £2,453 to Outward Bound to support a dozen children in outdoor activities.
- Funding for a class from St Luke’s Primary School to visit Lakeland Wildlife Oasis.
Morecambe Bay Partnership flyer
Grant to CEEP
The Areti Trust has made a grant of £2,920 to CEEP for outdoor summer activities at Kepplewray Centre.
Grants awarded January 2023
- £2,400 to Lancashire Association of Boys and Girls Club for summer outdoor activities.
- £10,040 to Lancashire Youth Challenge for their summer challenge expedition in the Lake District.
- £16,120 to Larksfoot CIC for free forest school holiday places for FSM children.
- £15,330 to Morecambe Bay Partnership for primary school pupils to explore the landscape around Cockerham.
Plus ongoing funding for primary school pupils to visit RSPB Leighton Moss.
Grant awarded to Escape2Make
Areti recently awarded a grant of £15,000 to Escape2Make for activities in 2023:
• Bicycle Club (repairs and creative trips)
• Foraging, Wild Cooking, Natural Product Making Club
• Contribution towards the Duke of Edinburgh awards
• Away Day at RSPB
Litfest application
The Trust has awarded £750 to Litfest for 20 local secondary school students to visit Leighton Moss in March in the company of ornithologist and author, Tim Birkhead, during Litfest 2023.
Grant to Morecambe Road School
The Areti Trust has awarded £5,000 to Morecambe Road School towards the cost of taking pupils on residential expeditions to the Lake District.
Green Festival
Escape2Make held their Green Festival in Scotch Quarry today to showcase the creative work of young people on the theme of the environment. Lots of activities and an inspirational feel.



Further grants awarded
The Areti Trust has also agreed the following grants:
- £12,206 for children from less well-off families to attend the Forest School Holiday Club organised by Larksfoot CIC
- £25,925 to Arnside & Silverdale AONB for “Into The Woods” – a full-year programme for pupils from Chadwick School PRU.
