Project Costs 1998 to 2008
The following costs incurred and grants received were prior to the Cormonachan Woodlands Association taking over the project in 2015.
The total cost of the Cormonachan Woodlands Project from 1998 to 2008 was £83,860 which was funded with grants of £45,583 by Forestry Commission Scotland (£13,200), Argyll and Islands Enterprise (£14,633), Community Economic Development Programme administered by AIE (£15,750), Scottish Wildlife Trust (£1,500) & Volvo (£500) and the balance of £38,277 financed by the project managers, Ardroy Outdoor Education Centre (Fife Council).
Cormonachan Woodlands Project Costs June 1998 to March 2008
Phase 1
Project and site preparation
1998 June Initial survey report £1,200.00 Ardroy
1999 Feasibility study and grant application £1800.00 Ardroy
1999 Staff training /chain saw course £1,500.00 Ardroy
1999 Oct. Extraction of conifers and rhododendrons £6,000.00 F. E.
2000 Jan. Coppicing 6 ha compartment of hazel £1,000.00 Ardroy
(F.E. = Forest Enterprise)
Path construction
2000 March Re instatement of the old drove track as a footpath £4,300.00 A.I.E.
Woodland Management 2000 to 2004
2000 Clear brash and felled trees £2,800.00 Ardroy
2000 Habitat Survey of the woods £ 500.00 S.W.T.
2000 Purchase Educational resources £1,000.00 S.W.T.
2001 Jan. Coppice Hazel compartment £ 800.00 Ardroy
2001 /02 Clear brash and felled trees in preparation for £3,200.00 Various
a tree nursery and resource centre by voluntary
(S.W.T. = Scottish Wild Life Trust “Better Place Project”
Various = Raleigh International, Fife conservation Volunteer Groups
and John Muir Trust Groups)
Phase 2
Construction of an Educational Resource Centre
2002 Feb Plan for the Resource Centre, Planning Permission,
Building Warrant £1,002.00 Ardroy
2002 Aug Materials for the construction of the Resource
Centre £12,882.00 A.I.E. &
Ardroy
2002 Sept. Labour to Construct the Resource Centre £4,500.00 R.E.
2002 Dec. Labour to fit out the interior of the Resource
Centre including painting inside and out. £2,716.00 Ardroy
(R.E. = Royal Engineers)
2003 Fire wood store materials and labour £1,500.00 Ardroy
2003 Toilet – Volvo (£500) Ardroy (£300) £ 800.00 Volvo
& Ardroy
Phase 3 March 2004
Woodland Management Plan – Paths etc.
Woodland Habitat Management Plan £ 1,450.00 £15,750.00 C.E.D.P.
Woodland Walk x 2,000 meters £20,000.00 £ 4,000.00 A.I.E.
Red Squirrel Trail £ 2,000.00 £ 5,000.00 F.E.
4 x view point seats and tables £ 1,800.00 £ 6,380.00 Ardroy
Rhododendron clearing £ 5,880.00
Phase 3 Total Costs £31,130.00
Woodland Management 2005 to 2008
2005 Mar Extension to Jan’s Hideaway £ 1,315.00 Ardroy
2005 Apr Residential cost of volunteer weekend £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2005 Oct Residential cost of volunteer weekend £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2006 Equipment store £ 800.00 Ardroy
2006 Mar Oak, rowan, and hazel saplings £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2006 Mar Residential cost of volunteer weekend £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2006 Oct Residential cost of volunteer weekend £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2006 Deer fenced area to protect saplings £ 1,000.00 F.E.
2007 Mar 500 hazel saplings ,stakes and protective spirals £ 500.00 Ardroy
2007 Mobile log support £ 350.00 Ardroy
2007 Woodland tools £ 400.00 Ardroy
2007 Mar Residential cost of volunteer weekend £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2007 Oct Residential cost of volunteer weekend £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2007 Oct Spraying paths to clear weeds £ 1,200.00 F.E.
2007 Sept Paint Jan’s Hideaway £ 400.00 Ardroy
2008 Jan. Install 12 volt solar panel lighting to the
Resource Centre £ 280.00 Ardroy
2008 Jan Construction & positioning of bird, owl and bat boxes £ 150.00 Ardroy
2008 Mar Compost toilet £ 700.00 Ardroy
2008 Mar Residential cost of volunteer weekend £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2008 Mar Updated Woodland Management Plan £ 1,000.00 Ardroy
2008 Mar Cormonachan Woodlands web site £2,000.00 Ardroy
Grants
Phase1 Lower path
Reinstate a section of the Lochgoilhead to Carrick Drove Road
2000 Mar Argyll and Island Enterprise £ 4.300.00
Community Initiatives
Phase2 Resource Centre
2003 Jan Fife Council
Funding for Resource Centre £ 6,334.00
2003 Feb Argyll and Island Enterprise
Funding for Resource Centre £ 6,333.00
Phase 3 Path and management plan costs
Woodland habitat management plan £ 1,450.00
Woodland walk x 2,000 meters £20,000.00
Red Squirrel trail £ 2,000.00
4 x view point, seats and tables £ 1,800.00
Rhododendron clearing £ 5,880.00
Total cost £31,130.00
Funders
Community Economic Development Programme £15,750.00
Argyll & the Islands Enterprise £ 4,000.00
Forestry Commission £ 5,000.00
Ardroy O.E.C. (Fife Council) £ 6,380.00
Total funding £31,130.00
Cormonachan Woodlands Funders / Grants
Forestry Commission/ Forest Enterprise
Free lease of the land 2000 to 2017
1999 Oct Clearing conifers £6,000.00
2004 Mar Clearing rhododendron £5,000.00
2006 Oct Fenced off area (Tree nursery) £1,000.00
2007 Oct Sprayed footpath to clear weeds £1,200.00
Sub total £13,200.00
Argyll and Island Enterprise
Community Initiative March 2000 Path £4,300.00
Community initiative February 2003 Resource centre £6,333.00
Community initiative March 2004 Path, etc. £4,000.00
Sub total £14,633.00
Community Economic Development Programme £15,750.00
(Administered by AIE)
Sub total £15,750.00
Ardroy Outdoor Education Centre (Fife Council) 1998 to 2008
Sub Total £38,277.00
Scottish Wild Life Trust
2000 Habitat survey £ 500.00
2000 Educational resources £1000.00
Sub Total £1,500.00
Volvo
2003 Funding for a toilet £ 500.00
Sub Total £ 500.00
Grand Total £83,860.00
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Free Labour
1998 to 2008 Fife Ranges volunteer conservation groups – 2 weekends per year.
Ardroy covers the residential cost for the weekends