What your donations can help Plantlife to achieve

Today I finally took the plunge to setup my donation page on Justgiving and kick off 6 weeks of various efforts to try to raise funds for the wonderful people at Plantlife. Nick helped to "morph" my promotional picture to go inline with the theme of my fund raising efforts and the rest was up to me to setup the page proper.

I realised Plantlife conservation charity is very different from a charity that many are used to (i.e. Charities that deals and help with humans in a very physical way), and therefore thought it might be worthwhile to give all prospective donors an idea of what each quid donated towards the organisation can help.

£10 would enable us to survey plants
The Common Plants Survey is the only national annual plant survey in the UK and provides information on the health of our countryside. Your donation could enable a volunteer to undertake the Common Plants Survey, by providing them with support and materials.

£20 could buy equipment for volunteers

Your donation could support the work of our Flora Guardians, our volunteer team who undertake plant protection all year round and enable us to provide them with the equipment they need. £20 would buy a mattock for breaking up hard ground.

£35 could help save peat bogs
94% of raised peat bogs have been lost from the UK and rare plants and animals that depend on them are being squeezed out. Your donation could support our campaigning for an end to peat-digging in the UK.

£50 could help create a nature reserve
Plantlife owns and protects over 4,900 acres in the UK through our nature reserves. It costs approximately £3,000 per acre to buy land. Your donation could help us to continue our programme of expanding the area we look after and therefore the plants and habitats we can protect.

£100 could fund a conservation work-day
In the 23 Plantlife nature reserves around the country, we rely on the help of volunteers to undertake a lot of the work to protect vulnerable wild plants. Your donation could provide tools and cover the expenses of a whole day of volunteering for a small group of people.

£500 could help restore plant habitats
Your donation could allow a site where a rare species is on the brink of extinction to be rescued, using a range of methods to recreate endangered habitat.

This may all sound very UK to any who do not live in this country, but you will be glad to find out that Plantlife has an extensive global footprint around the world and has close working relationships with many International networks to ensure this cause is very much not lost out of UK.

I sincerely hope you can help me towards this cause and I will dig deep by training over 3 months and aiming for a best personal timing on 13 April 2008 - 3 years after my last marathon journey. Remember, every little counts towards the cause!

Thank you.

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