Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue has a secure future thanks to over £100,000 of lottery money.
The award will be spent on continuing to restore much of the legendary topiary and some new designs to the Rutland tourist attraction. Chair of Clipsham Yew Tree Avenue Trust, who took over the management of the site from the Forestry Commission in 2018, Patrick Candler says that enables them to make a long term plan.
‘It gives us five years worth of management maintenance so that we know that we can restore the trees. We have the money to pay for the arboriculturist and topiarist to come in and we probably could negotiate longer term deals with them and if you've got that security or we know it takes about five years for some of the designs to come through. So we've got that security. That means we can plan ahead and it'll be about getting more people in, promoting the avenue. Hopefully we may be able to do some events to encourage people to join in. But it is that security’.
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