We need your help!

We have launched this appeal to help us fund our work to complete the transformation of this site from former Fuller's Earth quarry to become an extremely important nature reserve, to protect its wildlife and safeguard its heritage as a major feature in the local landscape. It lies within the Flit Valley and the Greensand Ridge Nature Improvement Area and includes the nationally important Cainhoe Castle Scheduled Monument, with its motte and baileys and associated moated site, fish ponds and field system. 

For a limited period, Greensand Trust Patron and former Chairman Peter Smith MBE has offered to match any donations made to this appeal via The Peter Smith Charitable Trust. Please help us ensure we can protect and establish this site as a high quality haven for nature.

A County Wildlife Site

Much of the site is recognised as a County Wildlife Site for its mosaic of wetland and floodplain habitats and its wintering waders and wildfowl. In the absence of public access, a wide variety of species have taken up residence from otters, sand martins and colourful dragonflies in the wetlands, to skylarks and wildflowers in the grassland areas. The Greensand Trust is therefore committed to ensure that public access to this site is established in a sensitive and sustainable manner which conserves and enhances these emerging habitats, whilst enabling visitors to share in the benefits this very special environment provides.