Iron Age project nets grant of £11,000

Innovative projects from an Iron Age roundhouse to a new suite of folk music based on the character of the Peak District are set to get the go-ahead thanks to a grant scheme.

Cash for the projects will be coming from the Peak District Sustainable Development Fund and is allocated by a panel of local residents and businesspeople.

A total of £11,000 will be put towards the reconstruction of an Iron Age style roundhouse at the non-profit making Nightingale Holiday and Conference Centre. in Great Hucklow.

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The roundhouse will be built by Sheffield University students, Peak Park Conservation Volunteers and representatives from Heeley City Farm in Sheffield, where a similar roundhouse has already been created.

It is hoped that the grant will help fund the construction, as well as open days and heritage workshops.

Meanwhile, £18,000 will be spent on a two-year project to create an archive of memories, documents, press articles, letters and photographs from the 1932 Kinder Mass Trespass.

A further £1,500 will go towards “Kinder 80: Trespass to Treasure”, a week-long festival of walks, talks, displays and family events centred round the 80th anniversary of the trespass on Tuesday, April 24.

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Grants of £14,000 will go to the “Peak District Ghost Woods and Shadows” project,to chart ecological and archaeological clues to the ancient woodlands that once grew on the East Peak moorlands; £11,000 will go to the expansion of the Peak District Electrical Bicycle Network and £9,000 will be given to Edale folk musician Bella Hardy, to help her collaborate with local musicians on a CD and tour featuring ballads based on the Peak District.

Chairman of the Sustainable Development Fund panel Pauline Beswick said: “These imaginative projects demonstrate that despite tough economic times, creativity is not thin on the ground in the Peak District.”

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