Award holders

2009-10 award
St Thomas More School,West Midlands

The grant will help fund a trip to take school children to North Wales in September. The pupils will visit a variety of different environments with a focus on physical geography.

2008-9 award
Marten Lewis, Darwin Centre
Rocky shore exploration days on the Pembrokeshire Coast, Summer 2009.

The Darwin Centre has submitted a report detailing how the grant was spent. Three summer clubs, made up of children between 5-16, spent the day on the Pembrokeshire coast, rock pooling and learning about the natural history of the area. It is clear from the Report that the Trust's money was well spent, as a really good day was had by the children who attended. See the full report here.

2007-8 award
Alexis Pridmore has written a report detailing her successful research trip to Zambia. Alexis, together with other members of the Glasgow / Aberdeen Universities Zambia Expedition, undertook three months of research in Zambia collecting extensive ecological data within the Kasanka National Park. The expedition was extremely successful in collecting substantial amounts of data to help in the assessment of the biodiversity and ecological habitat condition of the region.

The research funded by the Alice McCosh Trust focused on Biodiversity, parasitic burden and habitat ecology of dry season bats in the Kasanka National Park. The team also introduced the UK-based iBats programme (www.ibats.org.uk) to Kasanka National Park to facilitate the launch of an ongoing bat monitoring scheme in the area.

For full details of the project please see the attached report.

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