An Update - Tim Selman Tamar Valley AONB

Using Trust Vehicles & Friends Groups

to Enhance AONB Delivery

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Progress

• Asset transfers

• Site management

• Funding development

• Management structure

• Relationship with the AONB

Evolution

• AONB projects and procurement

• Underpinning Trust core costs

• Friends Group

• Community supported forestry

Reinvention

• Visitor payback

• Payback products

• Ticket levys

• Payroll giving

• Gift Aid

Private partnerships and sponsorship

Philanthropy

• Locality based

• Levels - Small and large

• Legacies

New AONB business models

• Landscape economy

• Venture capital

• Endowments

• Community shares and loans

• Community business partnerships

Three points to take away

• It is a hard sell to get people to essentially give to a local authority for a statutory service they already pay for through taxes - there must be added values linked to the place and landscape asset

• The core funding needs for AONBs will suppress their freedom and ability to provide project funding. So new models are needed in the next three years?

• Trusts can help BUT geographical scale and identity is important.