1. EMERGING AONB MODEL
Surrey Hills
Defra, NAAONB, Surrey Hills Board Partnership
SEEPL ETC Public Policy Advisory Forum
and Strategy to Board
Trademark licence
Trademark
Surrey Hills licence
Grants Surrey Hills
Society Trust Fund
Community Grant giving
Advertising
Surrey Hills % contribution
in newsletter
Enterprises
- Leisure / tourism
- Food drink
- Woodland, arts,
- crafts etc

2. Advisory Panel:
• Surrey Hills Board
Surrey Hills Trust Fund
• Com. Foundation (Community Foundation
• Potential Donors for Surrey)
• Grants
• Fund management (Endowment
and Through Flow Funds)
• PR and Marketing
What it does:
• Support AONB Unit activities
• Grant awards for landscape,
Income:
• Awareness and education
Website • Donations
• Licence fees
• Grants
• Events (eg Surrey Hills
Challenge)

3. Working with Community Foundation
Benefits:
• Established body and network
• Retain AONB control of on grant decisions
(Management Plan alignment)
• Legally independent (transparency in development
related donations)
Issues:
• Needed convincing that AONB Unit is beneficiary
• Negotiate management fee for handling grants
(proposed 10%)
• Could we replicate CF Model nationally?

4. North Pennines:
School grants
Publications fund
Opportunities:
Woodland
Visitor payback
One off donations and legacies
HLF catalyst fund to match endowments!!
Suffolk Coast Connect:
Influencing business, payback
£1 for every Connect breakfast
Chilterns – Chalk & Trees generate £4k pa – use outside agency
Looking at banner links (fee for every purchase)
Chilterns Countryside Festival - £9230 profit with NT and CB