Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership (OWLP) Press Release Template

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Notes on logo use and acknowledgement: Always include the OWLP and HLF logo in any press release* A draft copy

of the press release itself must be sent to HLF for prior approval (contact Sara at OWLP). Copies of any articles, radio

or TV broadcasts, or web based media need to be passed to the central OLWP team as a component of the project’s

monitoring and evaluation work. *If space is limited the HLF logo can be replaced by either: “Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund”, or, “Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund”. The

Ouse Washes logo should always be included.

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Who? What? Where? When? Why?

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Conclusion – Summarise what has been said

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Notes to Editors

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) awarded a major grant to the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership: Heart of

the Fens scheme in March 2014. This OWLP scheme is funded till March 2017.

The Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership (OWLP) area covers two Counties, five Districts and 29 Parishes,

and stretches for nearly 50 km from Downham Market in Norfolk to St. Ives in Cambridgeshire.

The partnership aims to improve community interaction and participation to maintain and safeguard the

OWLP area’s inherent landscape beauty, its wetland habitats of international importance and its hidden

archaeological and historical ‘gems’.

The key partners are: Arts Development in East Cambridgeshire (ADeC); Bill Blake Heritage Documentation;

Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk; Cambridge Archaeological Unit; Cambridgeshire ACRE;

Cambridgeshire Association for Local History; Cambridgeshire County Council; Diocese of Ely; East Anglian

Waterways Association; Ely Museum; Environment Agency; Fen Skating Association; Fenland District Council,

Fens Museum Partnership; Green Light Trust; Manea Parish Council; Manea & Welney District Drainage

Commissioners; Mepal Parish Council; Mike Petty; Natural England; Prickwillow Engine Trust; Rosmini

Centre; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB); Sutton Parish Council; Welney Parish Council;

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT); Wildlife Conservation Partnership (WCP); Workers’ Educational

Association (WEA).

The Partnership is led and facilitated by Cambridgeshire ACRE (www.cambsacre.org.uk)

Funder: The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) - www.hlf.org.uk

Further information

Images are available on request.

For further information, images and interviews contact:

Mark Nokkert, Ouse Washes LP Programme Manager: 01353 865030; Mobile 07864531867;

mark.nokkert@cambsacre.org.uk 32 Main Street; Littleport, Ely; Cambridgeshire CB6 1PJ

Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership scheme information:

OWLP Website: http://ousewashes.org.ukOWLP Twitter page: https://twitter.com/ousewasheslpOWLP Facebook page: Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership