SHOPPERS are being asked to dig deep in their pockets to help fund work at one of Britain’s oldest nature reserves.
It costs more than £100,000 a year to run Foxglove Covert local nature reserve at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, which is largely maintained by dedicated volunteers.
Visitors to Catterick Market on CatterickRacecourse this Sunday. March 29, will be asked to help by dropping whatever they can afford into fundraisers’ buckets.
“All money collected will go towards exciting projects aimed at heightening the experience of visitors to the reserve,’’ said Adam Edmond, manager of the reserve.
Hundreds of species of bird, animal and plants thrive on the 100-acre reserve which next plans to build a lakeside platform from which children can watch and feed ducks.
Foxglove Covert was the first nature reserve to be established on Ministry of Defence land in the UK.
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