Projects and How Your Money is Spent
Current Projects
Environment
- £2000 for tree saplings to reinstate hedgerows and supplement wooded areas in the AONB
- Greenshank migration project - financing research
- Stream quality monitoring - monthly involving local schools
- Documenting and production of a booklet on the life of the Water Vole
- Sponsoring a pond audit of the AONB
- Funding a project to learn more about the harbour seals.
Amenities
Sponsoring
a new book (see right) "A Walkers Guide
to Chichester Harbour" -
12 decent walks and 7 short stroll ideas for walks around the
shore- Funding manufacture and installing cycle posts at 10 locations adjacent to favourite walks
- Funding kissing gates (wheelchair access) at Apuldram & Itchenor
Education
- Providing 4 laptops for the Education Centre to give greater teaching flexibility and upgrade current PCs
- Funding a Portable T Loop system for users of hearing aids
- 3 Newsletters for 2008
- Sponsor : Guided Walks, Activities and Boat Trip booklet
Annual Harbour News & Guide - Photo Competition
- School art exhibitions- Earth, Air & Water Chichester Harbour
- Harbour Creekies - Talks on aspects of the AONB & Harbour
Recent Past Projects
Improving Access
- Farm Lane footpath in Nutbourne resurfacing for all weather use and wheelchairs
- Bosham Ferry Hard – repair and maintenance to this link with Itchenor – a great benefit for walkers
- Providing a hydraulic wheelchair lift to assist boarding the solar powered boat “ Solar Heritage”
- Slipper Mill Pond Emsworth – repairs to the southern bank
- 3 wooden footpath gates at Fishbourne meadows
- Kissing gates on Bosham Ferry path and at Apuldram
Landscape and Habitat Enhancement
- A donation was given to the appeal for repairs to Thorney Island church roof
- Worms for tomorrow’s birds – this is research into potential loss of feeding areas with tidal rise due to global warming and how to manage this so as to minimise its effect for wetland bird species
- Purchase of a strimmer for conservation work in wildfowl habitat areas around the harbour
- Planting saplings for hedge revival and supplementing wooded areas about 15000 over the last two years.
- Land snail survey
- Environment improvements at Eames farm recently acquired by the Chichester Harbour Trust www.chichesterharbourtrust.co.uk
- Laser leveller to replace theodolite for work in the field
Information and Education
- Harbour Education Centre at Dell Quay – portable projector stand, digital video camera, telescope and tripod, bat detector, 2 pairs of binoculars, shelves and bookcases.
- Geoviewer software
Projects in Partnership
Lottery Funded
Over the last 3 years the Friends of Chichester Harbour have joined with partners to provide matching funding for Heritage Lottery Funded projects. This programme called “Rhythms of the Tide” comes to the end of its allocated lottery grant this year. In addition the Friends have continued their financial assistance to routine work by the Harbour Conservancy.
Details of the complete Rhythm of the Tide projects are available on the Harbour Conservancy website www.conservancy.co.uk . The Friends of Chichester Harbour
2004 to 2006 inclusive - The Friends contributed matching funding for heritage Lottery Funded Projects, each year, in partnership with others for the following projects:
Landscape and Habitat Enhancement
- Derelict sea defence clearance
- Derelict vessel removal
- Tree and Hedge planting
- Harbour volunteers equipment
- Intertidal vegetation surveys
- Farmland restoration
- Reinstating lost areas of woodland
- Dell Quay wharf restoration
Monitoring and Surveys
- Geographic information system
- Stream watch
Access for All
- Wheelchair paths
- Access upgrades
Sustainable Integrated Transport
- Solar Powered boat
- Coastal Rambler bus
- Dell Quay pontoon
Education and Interpretation
- Mobile Information Display
- Production of two new publications “Chichester Harbour Explorer” and “Chichester
- Harbour Reference Guide
- Interpretation Boards at key points in AONB
