Thank you to those of you who responded so generously to our appeal to help us purchase land at Orton Moss Nature Reserve.  The auction took place yesterday and we are pleased to report that we were successful in purchasing lot 2 at the auction, which extends the reserve from 7.2 acres to 27.1 acres. 

Although we were out bid on two other lots that were up for auction, we are very pleased to have been able to secure almost 20 acres of land (within the SSSI) to extend the existing reserve, which were bought for £21,000. 

The generous support of our members generated £12,000 in pledges, for which we are very grateful.  We would now like to request that the value of your pledge is donated to us using the form below.

We will be reporting on our purchase of Orton Moss in Cumbrian Wildlife magazine and on our website.  Once again, we could not have achieved this extension to the reserve without the unwavering support of our members.

Thank you so much for your help in this way.

Peter Bullard, Director