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Churnet Valley Living Landscape Partnership (CVLLP)  is a major project which aims to conserve, enhance and celebrate the special landscape fringing the Peak District in the Staffordshire Moorlands.

Project areaThe Partnership aims to conserve, enhance and celebrate the heritage of an area of high landscape value and rare, often overlooked, industrial significance on the edge of the Staffordshire Peak District. Our vision, shared by fifteen partners representing a breadth of local interests and local people, is that through co-operative action across the community we will:

• Maximise the opportunities to work with and improve the strong built and natural heritage characteristics of the landscape;
• Take community involvement with and pride in our heritage to new levels of engagement;
• Increase the recognition of the landscape's contribution to England's history, particularly its currently under-appreciated role in the Industrial Revolution;
• Make access to and understanding of our human heritage, the varied natural assets and the interactions between them more readily available to a wider audience.

How will this be achieved?

The project was awarded £100,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). A further £100,000 has been contributed by the project partners and through ‘in kind’ donations. This has gone towards development of the project, which is now described in our Landscape Conservation Action Plan.

On 21st March 2012 it was confirmed that HLF have awarded a further £1.89 million towards completion of the project.

The project is being led by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust but it is very much a partnership project. There are 15 partners who will work together to deliver the project. A full list of partners can be found here.

The Churnet Valley Living Landscape Partnership is a Heritage Lottery Fund Landscape Partnership Scheme. To find out more about this scheme, click on this link:
http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/programmes/Pages/landscapepartnerships.aspx