Community projects receive cash boost from Lafarge

LAFARGE Aggregates have awarded new grants worth over £150,000 to 13 community projects through the landfill communities fund. The schemes, which spread from the north-east to the south-east of England, range from countryside and wildlife conservation to restoration of community and public buildings.

Andi Hodgson, communications manager of Lafarge Aggregates, said: ‘We’re delighted to be supporting such worthwhile community projects close to where several of our quarries and landfill sites operate. Lafarge’s key environmental partners – Derbyshire Environmental Trust, Durham Wildlife Trust, Groundwork Hertfordshire, and The Woodland Trust – are all backing the projects.’

The schemes include: improving safeguards for the threatened great crested newt in Darlington; replacing fencing around a public recreational area used by children at Whisby, near Lincoln; supporting the development of facilities for young people in London Colney, Hertfordshire; and improving public access to the countryside through the creation of a linking footpath at Belhus Chase, Thurrock, for residents living in South Ockenden.