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WILDLIFE TRUST
Toyota is helping to give Surrey Wildlife Trust’s Nower Wood nature reserve
in Leatherhead a new lease of life with a £25,000 donation towards the
rebuilding of facilities at the site.
The trust gives thousands of children
the opportunity to learn about
wildlife and the environment, but
the current classrooms at the site
are more than 40 years old and
have become outdated. The
project aims to improve the site and
facilities so the trust can work with
more children. In particular, it wants
to provide better access for children
with disabilities.
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Toyota’s donation will help the trust
to build new classrooms, provide
more staff training and purchase
new learning equipment. Hayden
Turner, Education Centres Manager
said: “One of the reasons the
money Toyota has given us is so
important is that it takes us to the
next level towards achieving our
goal. We need new classrooms
and facilities that cater for and
are inclusive of everyone in the
community. For us £25,000 from
Toyota is absolutely magical and I
can’t thank them enough for it.”
Toyota is one of the trust’s
Gold Corporate Partners, a
relationship that saw the trust
make an important contribution
to an ecological survey of its
headquarters site, near Epsom,
in 2012. This helped plan the
redevelopment of the grounds to
create a new “eco-HQ”, designed
to encourage plant and wildlife
biodiversity. This work will continue
with the trust helping to produce
further audits to monitor the progress
of the environmental project.
Robin Giles, Toyota’s Director of
Human Resources and Corporate
Operations, said: “We are delighted
to support Surrey Wildlife Trust and
its building plans for the education
centre. Their work and this project fit
brilliantly with what we’re about as a
company and our commitment to
protecting the environment.”