I attach here with his kind permission an interview with Karl Hansen, Director of the Living Rainforest, Berkshire. Under the former LIFE programme Karl drew down some €2 million to support development of a new form of tropical glass house exhibit.See: life-environment-eu-interest-group-interview-with-karl-hansen-final-jan07-2.doc The new LIFE+ programme will open in September and close again by the [...]
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Capital funding for your site: the EU’s LIFE+ Environmental
September 25th, 2007Zoo finance and legacies
September 24th, 2007Those of us who are not very rich can only make one really substantial gift to a given organisation or cause. That is through our will. But that’ s okay because we are all going to die! To be serious, this is of course a sober, sensitive and sometimes difficult subject, but most zoos and aquaria across Europe really do not [...]
How do you find a ‘chairman’ for your zoo fundraising campaign…?
September 24th, 2007This is definitely one of the critical success factors of this kind of exercise. The campaign chairman needs to be someone who: commands respect within the community from which you expect to raise the money understands and endorses the zoo’s mission and the rationale of this particular exercise can get things done in a no nononsense manner [...]
Australia, USA, Canada and NZ zoo partnerships with EU zoos
September 10th, 2007There is funding available for programmes to allow an exchange of skills ( zookeeping, zoo conservationists or scientists, or any discipline within the zoo field) This would come from DG Education and Culture who are keen to fund less ‘academic’ and more ‘vocational’ partnerships than in the past. 80% is available to create a course, [...]
How can zoo interests in Europe, North Africaand Western Asia benefit from the New Neighbourhood fund?
September 9th, 2007The EU has recently launched a new fund open to nearly all the states bordering the existing EU ( Central Asia and North Africa) Physical development of a zoo site in these countries and potentially all kinds of in situ projects might well be eligible. Organisations in country however often need the expertise of established [...]
Science in Society: 100% funding from EU
September 6th, 2007This budget line lies with DG Research and is intended to help bring young people ( and those of all ages) to a greater interest in science and science careers. It also looks to enhance cooperation across the EU and look at issues of European interest An exhibition or other similar activity coordinated on by [...]
Intervening at strategy level – before the rules are made
September 4th, 2007All those funding programmes, and none of them quite fit your project, dammit! Well, perhaps you can shoehorn whatever it is you want to do into somebody else’s funding instrument Or perhaps you can go along and talk before the rules are made? How much more effective and subtle to intervene at strategy level, rather than [...]
Twycross Zoo wins £3 million grant from East Midlands Development Agency
September 3rd, 2007Twycross Zoo- East Midland Zoological Society, UK has working with John Regan Associates Ltd secured £3 million towards its new entrance complex. This is in view of the added value that the project provided in keeping with the Regional Economic Strategy. The building will embrace a number of ‘eco-flagship’ elements, a regional TIC, a programme [...]
