Pollinating the Peak

2021 National Lottery Project of the Year

Pollinating the Peak is an ambitious natural heritage project based in Derbyshire, raising awareness of the links between our countryside, food and bumblebees. Working with a wide range of partners across all sectors, we are engaging with people of all ages and inspiring a new generation of entomologists and citizen scientists to look after and look out for bumblebees now and in the future, taking action from planting pollinator-friendly flowers in their own gardens to carrying out bumblebee surveys.

The Bilberry bumblebee (Bombus monticola) is the jewel of the Peak District. This less common species has seen a decline in the distribution across its range. By inspiring public action the project is helping to secure the future of the Bilberry bumblebee (a Peak District National Park priority species) and other local bumblebees by improving favourable habitat and monitoring bumblebee populations.

The project has developed the hugely popular ‘What’s that bumblebee’ app to identify the eight common bumblebees species in the UK, delivered the Bumblebee Education Experience (B.E.E) to senior schools in the Derbyshire area and upgraded the online Bee kind tool with over 700 plant options to enable people to learn more about the UK’s bumblebees.

The project has developed an interactive map to show some examples of the work we have done across Derbyshire and the Peak District. You can explore the map here.

Further information 

Partners

Chesterfield Borough Council, Chatsworth Estate, Derbyshire County Council, Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, Little Green Space, Moors for the Future Partnership, National Trust in the Peak District and Derbyshire and Peak District National Park Authority.

Funding

Funding received by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. We would like to thank the following funders, who have pledged their support: Duke of Devonshire Charitable Trust, Gilchrist Educational Trust, Miss K M Harbinson’s Charitable Trust, Charles Wells, the Whovian Running Club, People’s Postcode Lottery, Diamond and Diamond Ltd, AO, Peter Samuel Trust, Spear Charitable Trust, John Lewis, Pauline Meredith Charitable Trust, William Dean Trust, The Ivo Trust, Reverence for Life UK, West Midlands Safari Park, Peak Walking and Waterloo Foundation. We would also like to thank the Aviva Community Fund for supporting the project during the gap between the development and delivery phases and the Co-op Local Community Fund for their generous donation.

  

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