Love the Broads raises funds for exciting projects which help the environment, wildlife and also enhance the visitor experience across the Broads National Park. Your nomination could be the one that helps us win £1,000 from the Movement for Good to continue our work to provide grants for even more projects. Over the last 10 years we have helped 38 fantastic projects and your nomination would support our continuing work to help ensure that the Broads National Park remains special for the future.

It’s simple but to help you:

Click on www.movementforgood.com/#nominateACharity.
Click ‘nominate a charity now’. The information you will need is: Charity No. 1124552.
Click on the search icon and our charity name will appear: Norfolk & Suffolk Broads Charitable Trust.
Select the charity type: Environment and Climate
Answer a few questions:
Who you are – click on Other and add in line below “Supporter”.
Then SUBMIT.
Thanks for your support. The more nominations we get, the greater our chance of winning, so please share this post and spread the word, and you will be helping the Broads too.

Have you noticed how much cleaner the air feels and how more noticeable our wildlife seems to be?

These are such challenging times for everyone and everywhere, especially the unique Broads National Park but the good news is that there will never be a better time to recognise the beauty of our natural environment and how we may be able do things a little differently from now on to protect the wildlife, waterways and landscape. Managed badly the impact of tourism numbers on our fragile landscape can be very damaging. The challenge before us is how to retain our rediscovered world, reduce the impact our businesses create and look forward together to reducing climate change but also to operate in a viable environment for business and organisations.

At present, with all our business partners closed, we have little income but as plans for the future are developed we hope that our income will be restored.  Will a brave new world emerge from the ashes of the virus pandemic?

At Love the Broads we certainly hope so and we would like to work with our business partners and supporters to continue to raise funds to be channelled to exciting projects on the Broads which help wildlife and the environment but which also enhance the visitor experience. Please help us continue our work to keep the Broads special.   You can make a donation HERE

Thank you.

Due to the COVID-19 national emergency our generous business partners are all closed. These businesses and their customers provide most of the funds that we receive for distribution as grants so we regret that we are not in a position to accept grant applications at this time. We will make further announcements regarding grant applications in due course

Sending our good wishes this Easter to all our fantastic supporters – Broads businesses, Members and many others – each helping us massively with our work to ensure that the Broads National Park remains special.   Everyone is in our thoughts right now.  Keep smiling.  Keep strong.  Keep safe.

Love the Broads sends a message of support at this difficult time to all our wonderful Business Partners, their staff, our members and all those visitors who have kindly made donations to help to keep the Broads special.  We understand the many challenges that confront you all right now.

We will continue to work virtually and we are only an email or phone call away should you need support, a friendly chat or have any questions about our work:

Just email lynne@lovethebroads.org.uk
mobile 07717 290307 or

peterh@broadstrust.org.uk
mobile 07887 480331

Thank you for your fantastic support in the past.  You have all made a massive difference in helping the Broads through your kind and generous donations.  Let’s continue to work together – we will get through this – and the Broads will be even more special.  Sending much love and keep safe

A grant of £1,300 has been awarded to the Museum of the Broads to install an electrical and self-contained 12 volt charging system on  their Marsh Harrier boat.  It will enable the lift to be used without detriment to the normal running of the boat and create access for passengers unable to negotiate the boarding steps and to lower and raise passengers in wheelchairs into and off the boat.

We hope that everyone enjoys their boat trips on the Marsh Harrier.  Another project only made possible by the support of our business partners, their fantastic customers and our Members.

Peter Howe, Trustee of Broads Trust, presented cheques to both the  Friends of Salhouse Broad (£2,000)and Broads Reed and Sedge Cutters Association  (£1200) at the Annual General Meeting of Visit The Broads (the Destination Marketing Organisation for the Broads) held in February at Richardson’s Beach Holiday Park in Hemsby 

Details of both projects can be found by scrolling down

We have reached a fantastic milestone.   Over £50,000 has now been donated to 38 exciting projects in the Broads.  What more can we say but THANK YOU to the many business supporters and their customers who have made this possible.

£1,200 has been awarded to The Broads Reed and Sedge Cutters’ Association to enable them to purchase 20 specialist mats so that they can access a number of sites that are managed for conservation and commercial reed, (renowned for its high quality and used in fencing and thatching roofs across the country) and sedge.

The mats will prevent ground damage to these biodiverse peat fens and facilitate the removal of the quality local product from the marsh. The reed cutters are having to adapt their operations to meet the challenges of climate change and rising sea levels.   Currently many areas of marsh can only be accessed on foot and laying these transportable and temporary track ways over areas of unstable ground will enable specialist machinery to remove the final product.

A grant of £2,000 has been awarded to the Friends of Salhouse Broad towards creating an exciting bespoke natural play space for everyone to enjoy. The new play area will encourage children and families to engage with the stunning natural woodland adjacent to the Broad and within The Broads National Park. It will widen the offer to both local residents and families visiting the area, encouraging them to visit at any time of the year and to stay for longer.

CAP.Co, a local, Broads-based company who are international leaders in the field of creating adventurous, playful, educational spaces, have been commissioned to deliver this project

Just some of the 80 businesses who, together with their fantastic customers, are all playing a part in helping to keep the Broads special

Thank you to everyone

Hall Farm  Cottages, Maycraft , Riverside Rentals, Ivy House Country Hotel Prima Rosa, A Piece of Cake, Limes Farm and Smile Bikes

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