Our Coast, Our Sea - Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership starts work
17 November 2011
Holy Island of Lindisfarne Community Development Trust has appointed Jon Riley to develop the multi-million pound Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership.
In July the Trust received a first-round pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) through itsLandscape Partnership programme for the Peregrini Lindisfarne project.
The project aims to protect and enhance the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and surrounding areas by reconnecting the community’s relationship with the land and seascapes, heritage and history, making the area a
better place to work, live and visit.
Over the summer the Trust has been working with its partners, including Natural England, Northumberland County Council and English Heritage, to finalise funding and recruit a Scheme Development Officer.
Jon Riley is employed by the Development Trust and will be based in the Discovery Centre adjacent to Holy Island First School. As Scheme Development Officer he will work for the next 15 months planning for the next 4 years of work, consulting with the local community and trying to find further funding for the projects planned by the Peregrini Lindisfarne Board. Prior to moving to the development trust on Holy Island, Jon worked for Seahouses Development Trust for 8 years.
The project name, Peregrini Lindisfarne, was chosen to remind us of the monks and other devout itinerants who, in search of wilderness and tranquillity, built monasteries and cells on remote islands such as Lindisfarne. These people were known as Peregrini – it gives us the word Pilgrim, thousands of whom regularly visit this area.
The cultural heritage of the island is integral to the area. Holy Island is known as the Cradle of Christianity with connections to St Aidan, St Cuthbert and the associated monasteries, cells and hermitages; the island’s association with The Golden Age of Northumbria; and the Lindisfarne Gospels. The landscape is also rich in biodiversity, including very rare plant species such as the delicate Lindisfarne helleborine, rich wildlife habitats (particularly for migratory and breeding birds) and high geological interest.
The ideas for the scheme are still to be finalised and will need to be approved by various stakeholders and Heritage Lottery Fund. Amongst a range of different projects, there are aspirations to protect and preserve historic buildings including restoring the Holy Island Lifeboat House and converting into a small museum, conserving scheduled ancient monuments including St. Cuthbert’s Chapel, Osborne Fort and conserving social history features such as the Popple Well and the military defences in the area. Work on the natural landscape may include repairing route markers and refuge boxes on the Pilgrim’s path across the sands and mudflats, restoring and managing whin grassland habitat, and improving the salt and mudflats for shore nesting birds.
Gordon Davies, Chair of the Peregrini Lindisfarne board said, “We are delighted to have appointed Jon and are now looking forward to getting started working up our ideas. We really want as many people as possible to get involved. There are all kinds of activities people can help with, including community art projects, assisting with environmental monitoring and recording schemes, marine awareness projects with subaqua divers, and community geology work.”
Funding of £125,000 has been awarded from Heritage Lottery Fund, Natural England, Northumberland County Council and the Adderstone Fund to help the Partnership progress the plans to apply for a full grant at a later date. If successful, the Peregrini Lindisfarne project could start in autumn 2013 and secure £2.5 million of grants for Holy Island and the surrounding landscape.
To get in touch with the Scheme Development Officer call Jon Riley on 07534 821800 or email Holy Island of Lindisfarne Community Development Trust has appointed Jon Riley to develop the multi-million pound Peregrini Lindisfarne Landscape Partnership.
In July the Trust received a first-round pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) through itsLandscape Partnership programme for the Peregrini Lindisfarne project. The project aims to protect and enhance the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and surrounding areas by reconnecting the community’s relationship with the land and seascapes, heritage and history, making the area a better place to work, live and visit.
Over the summer the Trust has been working with its partners, including Natural England, Northumberland County Council and English Heritage, to finalise funding and recruit a Scheme Development Officer.
Jon Riley is employed by the Development Trust and will be based in the Discovery Centre adjacent to Holy Island First School. As Scheme Development Officer he will work for the next 15 months planning for the next 4 years of work, consulting with the local community and trying to find further funding for the projects planned by the Peregrini Lindisfarne Board. Prior to moving to the development trust on Holy Island, Jon worked for Seahouses Development Trust for 8 years.
The project name, Peregrini Lindisfarne, was chosen to remind us of the monks and other devout itinerants who, in search of wilderness and tranquillity, built monasteries and cells on remote islands such as Lindisfarne. These people were known as Peregrini – it gives us the word Pilgrim, thousands of whom regularly visit this area.
The cultural heritage of the island is integral to the area. Holy Island is known as the Cradle of Christianity with connections to St Aidan, St Cuthbert and the associated monasteries, cells and hermitages; the island’s association with The Golden Age of Northumbria; and the Lindisfarne Gospels. The landscape is also rich in biodiversity, including very rare plant species such as the delicate Lindisfarne helleborine, rich wildlife habitats (particularly for migratory and breeding birds) and high geological interest.
The ideas for the scheme are still to be finalised and will need to be approved by various stakeholders and Heritage Lottery Fund. Amongst a range of different projects, there are maspirations to protect and mpreserve historic buildings including restoring the Holy Island Lifeboat House and converting into a small museum, conserving scheduled ancient monuments including St. Cuthbert’s Chapel, Osborne Fort and conserving social history features such as the Popple Well and the military defences in the area. Work on the natural landscape may include repairingroute markers and refuge boxes on the Pilgrim’s path across the sands and mudflats, restoring and managing whin grassland habitat, and improving the salt and mudflats for shore nesting birds.
Gordon Davies, Chair of the Peregrini Lindisfarne board said, “We are delighted to have appointed Jon and are now looking forward to getting started working up our ideas. We really want as many people as possible to get involved. There are all kinds of activities people can help with, including community art projects, assisting with environmental monitoring and recording schemes, marine awareness projects with subaqua divers, and community geology work.”
Funding of £125,000 has been awarded from Heritage Lottery Fund, Natural England, Northumberland County Council and the Adderstone Fund to help the Partnership progress the plans to apply for a full grant at a later date. If successful, the Peregrini Lindisfarne project could start in autumn 2013 and secure £2.5 million of grants for Holy Island and the surrounding landscape.
To get in touch with the Scheme Development Officer call Jon Riley on 07534 821800 or email peregrinilindisfarne@gmail.com .