Mount Edgcumbe Country Park Black Bee Haven
B4 has secured at least £8000 of funding from Tesco’s Bags of Help initiative.
The B4 Project along with the other two successful projects in our region will go forward to a public vote in Tesco stores with their customers deciding the outcome. The public will be able to vote for their favourite project in Callington, Launceston, Padstow and Wadebridge Tesco stores from 26th September 2016 to 9th October 2016 and we will notify you by the end of October 2016 to confirm the amount of your grant award. The project with the highest number of votes across your region will receive £12,000, the second placed project £10,000 and the third placed project £8,000.
Bags of Help will see money raised by customers through the 5p bag charge go directly back into the local community.
The public bee display will be part of a breeding program to improve the indigenous stock of rare bees in the 800 acre Public Park at Mount Edgcumbe and will be the public interface of the Black Bee Haven at the Park. We will not only be protecting a remnant population of the native Apis mellifera mellifera (Black honey bee) in the park but raise public awareness of the general plight of the bee populaton.
Improving the conservation linked displays, activities and access to Mount Edgcumbe will benefit the large population of Plymouth as the Country Park is a publicly-owned space.
http://www.b4project.co.uk/mount-edgcumbe-house-and-country-park/