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From noon on 22 April until 29 April 2025, we will launch our Big Give Green Match Fund appeal—when donations will be doubled.
This crucial appeal is aiming to raise a game-changing £90,000 in just one week. Every pound donated will be matched—transforming donors’ generosity into a whopping grand total of £180,000.
This is a chance to double your impact and help fund the construction of our critical new lock on the Lichfield Canal along Tamworth Road.
The new lock is key to managing water flow and enabling boats to navigate through a culvert under Cricket Lane as part a 650-metre canal stretch set to be completed in 2026—a big step toward restoring the Lichfield Canal.
Christine Howles, Communications and Marketing Trustee at LHCRT, said:
“Hitting our £90,000 target unlocks the match funding pot, meaning LHCRT will receive an incredible additional £90,000 to push forward the lock’s construction.
We need your help—every donation, big or small, gets doubled at no extra cost to you. Let’s make every gift go twice as far!”
The Lichfield Canal will be a vital blue-green corridor from Brownhills to Huddlesford, connecting the Wyrley and Essington Canal to the Coventry Canal, creating valuable connected aquatic, marginal and land habitats. It will also protect against the impacts of climate change through flood attenuation and carbon capture, and improve active travel links, giving great alternatives to carbon-based transport both locally and regionally.
Donate to our Big Give appeal
Visit our appeal page between 22 April and 29 April 2025 and see your donation doubled.
Find out more about how the Big Give appeal works.