Funding boost for Trust's Coventy Charterhouse plans

Trust's plans for Coventry Charterhouse make progress thanks to funding boost.

The first steps to connecting Coventry’s communities with the city’s emerging Charterhouse Heritage Park are now underway.

The Trust has secured £89,722 as part of Coventry City Council’s successful bid to the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Nature Towns and Cities fund to consult and engage with local people as we develop and promote our plans for this unique urban wild place.

The fund will help establish baseline patterns of access, use and local perspectives across this hidden network of green spaces around Charterhouse and along the River Sherbourne corridor. We will run a pilot programme of engagement and training activities to inspire residents, including heritage talks, wildlife walks and river surveys.

Local communities will also be able to feed into early proposals for access improvements, including new pathways and bridges, habitat creation and enhancement projects such as new wetland schemes, as well as the events and activities that they would like to see happening to encourage the community to benefit more from the site.

In addition, the Trust will work with local schools and community groups to support them to deliver the John Muir Award across the city, providing leaders with training and resources to discover, explore, conserve and share their experience of local wild places.

Finally, we will also map the provision of green skills training across the city with a view to developing Charterhouse as a local training hub.

• This article first appeared in the Autumn / Winter 2025 edition of the John Muir Trust Members' Journal. If you would like to receive our Journal twice a year please consider joining the Trust as a Member.