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Bermuda Village Residents Association (BVRA), as part of the natural play scheme, Bermuda Goes Wild! are holding two community activity days.

The aim of the days are to create a natural play installation by building a living willow maze. The design has been done in recognition of the wildlife on the site and will reflect a spiders web and will hide a large spider at its centre for young people to discover!

People are encouraged to come along, in old clothes, and help plant willow and learn to weave it into the walls of the maze.  Local green wood artist Spencer Jenkins will be on hand to provide the expertise and oversee the work.

Bob Chambers, Chair of BVRA says “This should be great fun and l encourage everyone, young and old, to come and learn more about willow and willow weaving. Please come along and give us a hand”

The project is fully funded by Big Lottery Fund’s Community Spaces programme.

Find us at Bermuda Lake, the far side by Dairy Crest, on Sunday 27th February and Sunday 6th March, 11am – 3pm, at Bermuda Lake. Further information please ring Catherine Marks 024 7638 7279.
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Notes to Editors
Bermuda Village Residents Association (BVRA)
Over the last 3 years BVRA have worked hard to support the local residents of the village and help tackle community problems. Previous successes include:
- initial works to the lake site to stop fly tipping, anti-social behaviour and un-wanted parking
- new welcome signs to the village
- liaison with Deeley’s on land issues and future developments
- new information signs at the Lake telling people about the history and wildlife of the site

For further information contact:
Bob Chambers, Chair, BVRA : 024 7634 5738 or bob.chambers@talktalk.net
OR
Catherine Marks, Project Manager, Warwickshire County Council: 024 7638 7279 or catherinemarks@warwickshire.gov.uk

Community Spaces
Community Spaces is a £50 million open grants programme that is managed by Groundwork UK as an award partner to the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces initiative. The programme helps community groups create or improve green and open spaces so that the quality of life in neighbourhoods across England is enhanced.

Only community groups in England are eligible to apply to Community Spaces – a full eligibility criteria is available at http://www.community-spaces.org.uk. The programme has been open for small and medium grants (£10,000 - £49,999) since March 2008 and will remain open for these sizes of grants until 2011.
Groundwork UK
Groundwork supports communities in need, working with partners to help improve the quality of people’s lives, their prospects and potential and the places where they live, work and play. Our vision is of a society of sustainable communities which are vibrant, healthy and safe, which respect the local and global environment and where individuals and enterprise prosper. For further information visit: http://www.groundwork.org.uk

Big Lottery Fund
The Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces programme was launched in November 2005 to help communities enjoy and improve their local environments. The programme is funding a range of activities from local food schemes and farmers markets, to education projects teaching people about the environment. Groundwork UK was appointed as a Changing Spaces award partner, responsible for distributing £50 million through its Community Spaces scheme. 

The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK since its inception in June 2004. It was established by Parliament on 1 December 2006.

Big Lottery Fund Press Office: 020 7211 1888 Out of hours: 07867 500 572
Public enquiries line:          08454 102030 Textphone:  08456 021 659

Full details of the work of the Big Lottery Fund, its programmes and awards are available on the website:  HYPERLINK http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

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