Thank you to every single person who has supported Carymoor in the past. This support, however large or small, has enabled us to carry out our work providing environmental education, habitat creation, and rural craft skills over the last 25 years, often during some very tough times.
Our current supporters, providing grants or sponsorship are shown below.
We would also like to thank everyone who supports us with anonymous donations, regular giving, supporting our events, and buying our produce as well as those who generously give their time which is invaluable to us.
Biffa support our school education programmes through sponsorship. This support allows us to provide cost effective courses and events for schools so the future generation can learn about living a sustainable life. By educating communities and in particular the young, Biffa are proud to play their part in inspiring young people and our communities to help protect the Earth’s resources by changing the way people think about waste. In our financial year ended 31 March 2025 their financial sponsorship helped us reach 3744 children.
Valencia Waste Management Limited, owned by Patrick, is committed to enriching the lives of those in the communities surrounding its sites. Through its restoration projects, the Company aims to create spaces that not only foster biodiversity but also serve as recreational and educational resources for the community. As a part of its values to enhance community wellbeing, the company is supporting our charity through the provision of our peppercorn lease and licence. Additionally, Patrick is supporting a National Lottery Funded project by giving permission to provide a training facility for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities.
The ongoing financial support for the management of the licenced area also allows us to support Valencia’s Aftercare goals in particular:
‘Enhancing Local Biodiversity - By creating habitats and ecosystems through our restoration projects, we aim to enhance local biodiversity. These reclaimed sites often become local parks, nature reserves or recreational spaces, contributing to the wellbeing of the community.’
Viridor supports our Education programme through their ‘We Share’ scheme.
We also work in partnership visiting the Waste Transfer Station at Dimmer where Viridor help us to educate school groups during our site tours.
Garfield Weston Foundation is supporting a 2-year project to improve habitats for pollinators at Carymoor and to support our nature conservation volunteer programme.
The National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund helps to support our partnerships with Able2Achieve and The Hub. Each week learners from Able2Achieve come to us to learn outdoor skills and to help us manage our nature reserve. Their contribution is immense. We also provide short courses to trainees from The Hub which promote wellbeing and teach rural craft skills.
Thank you to Open Mental Health for supporting our Monday volunteer group. The group helps to promote better mental health though spending time in nature and taking part in active and productive activities that are good for both people and wildlife.
Thank you to the Somerset Community Foundation for supporting volunteering for wellbeing and helping to improve facilities for our visitors.
Funding from Somerset Council Waste Services supports our Schools Against Waste programme to allow us to visit primary schools in Somerset with our waste and environmental education. Over 60,000 children have now benefiitted from a visit from our team and our programme helps to inspire young people to care for the environment and helps boost recycling rates for the County.
The CLA Charitable Trust supported Carymoor with a grant to run 5 activity days for families from the Yeovil area. We have worked in partnership with Yeovil4Family on this project.
