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No. 7 November 1999
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The NPS is to apply for Heritage Lottery funding. After examination of the proposal forms the Society feels it meets all the criteria necessary to be successful. TDC will be supporting the bid by supplying the technical know-how and capability to implement any approved scheme. The proposal will be to implement the acceptable three hard point scheme of which TDC made a start with the rock emplacement at the Tower groyne in late 1998. HHA followed in early 1999 with their sand and gravel beach replenishment at the northern end of the Naze and around into Hamford water. The bid is likely to be for around of which the society has to find at least 25%. |
Provided the Lottery bid is successful we can save the Naze by raising ,000. We currently have just over 000 so we have a way to go. We shall be writing and talking to organisations and Companies and have every confidence that organisations such as the Environmental Agency, Anglia Water, TDC, HAA and others will enable us to meet this target. For the public part, dig deep and help us realise the dream of the past 50 years. We can't put the cliffs back once they are eroded. Let us leave a legacy for future generations. |
Over the Summer hundreds flocked to the Naze to enjoy the area and the sunshine. The pictures below illustrate the popularity of the Naze as a public open space. Its importance as part of our heritage cannot easily be quantified in accountants terms but is immeasurably valuable as a public asset.
The Society again put a float in the carnival (see picture) and had a tabletop on the Bath House meadow over the carnival weekend. We did not win a prize but gave publicity to the cause and helped to make the carnival a success.
The Naze is used extensively by school parties and students and is a prime reason for its survival. The Society plays its part with organised tours and supplying its information packs. The existence of these is advertised on the internet and many sets of the fact sheets on the ecology of the Naze have been sold. The Society also supplies material to local libraries and tourist centres.
The praise plaque stone which most visitors to the Naze will have seen is now only yards away from the cliff edge and the Society have obtained permission from TDC to move it to a safer place. As the Society knew little about the stone, research was undertaken and an advertisement was placed in the local Gazette for information and this had a positive result. The praise plaque is in fact one of hundreds throughout the world erected by the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary of Darmstadt-Eherstadt, Germany. The plaques are at sites of natural beauty where praise to the Lord can be given for His creation of the wonderful natural world we live in. The founder of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, Sister M. Basilea Schlink thought of the idea of praise plaques to contrast against the horror and atrocities of WWII. When approached by the Society the Sisterhood generously donated a new plaque which local builders Nichols have generously offered to erect free of charge on the Naze. It is hoped to have a short history of the praise plaque written and displayed on one of the Notice boards on the Naze.
The Street collection realised nearly and our thanks go to the street collectors and all those who put money in our tins.
Save the Naze now an International Issue
In the last newsletter we reported having been contacted over the internet by a Jim Naze whose ancestors had adopted the surname because of their love of the Naze. Jim has now placed an order and has received Save the Naze sweat and polo shirts bearing the Society's logo. They are for him and to give as Christmas presents. Our cause is becoming an international issue!