Our aim has been exceeded!
We raised over £6,000 in order to provide a copy of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris for EVERY school in Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, not just all primary schools.
Deliveries to schools were completed in July 2019.
We are delighted that
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is our
main partner in this campaign.
AIM
Since 2010 common countryside words have started to disappear from children's dictionaries. This magically illustrated "book of spells" aims to help children conjure back these words lost, such as adder, starling and dandelion; to bring them back to the landscape and their knowledge. It is to inspire and imbue with them a sense of awe and bewilderment of the wonderful wildlife that surrounds us.
As Robert Macfarlane begins the book:
Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children. They disappeared so quietly that at first almost no one noticed - fading away like water on stone. The words were those children used to name the natural world around them: acorn, adder, bluebell, bramble, conker - gone!
Fern, heather, kingfisher, otter, raven, willow, wren ... all of them gone! The words were becoming lost: no longer vivid in children's voices, no longer alive in their voices.
Thank you for your support in helping this spellbinding book reach the children of Lincolnshire, for helping them conjure back these lost words of our beautiful countryside.
Click here to see more about the Lost Words on publisher, Penguin's website.
TIMESCALE
MAY 22nd '18
official launch
at the
Lincolnshire Environmental Awards
JUNE 11th '18
3pm - Crowdfunder.co.uk
page opened for donations
JULY 9th '18
3pm - Crowdfunder.co.uk
£5,522 raised
SEPTEMBER 6th '18
Delivery of 510 books to our central collection point, Whisby Nature Reserve, by our Walkers Books, our independent books.
LWT Area Groups, Rotary Clubs and individuals take the books back to their respective corners of the county
ABOUT
JULY 11th '18
3pm - Crowdfunder.co.uk
page closes for donations
£5,400 raised.
Donations received from businesses.
SEPT '18 - JULY '19
Presentation of books
to schools.
Congratulations to Rachel Scopes, who was drawn from the list of crowdfunder supporters and received this beautiful otter painting by Jackie Morris.
Our tremendous thanks to Jackie for donating this and others of her beautiful works.
An Explorer's Guide to the Lost Words, was created by Eva John and published by The John Muir Trust, which is a conservation charity dedicated to protecting and enhancing wild places in the UK. The guide is a valuable resource for teachers that combines with the National Curriculum.
To view the guide in pdf form - click here
We have kindly been given permission to print this guide to accompany and complement the Lost Words.
EXPLORER'S GUIDE
MORE ABOUT THE LOST WORDS
For other Lost Words campaigns please visit - lostwordsforschools.co.uk
CONTACTS
Rachel Shaw
Senior Communications Officer
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
Email: rshaw@lincstrust.co.uk
www.lincstrust.org.uk/lostwords
Harry Whinney
Designer, painter and volunteer organiser of
Lost Words for Lincolnshire
Email: hello@lostwordsforlincolnshire.co.uk
Lost Words for Lincolnshire
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