Howard holding an owl Geoff Brooks with young Tawny Owl Tawny Owls baby and adult Howard up a ladder in a barn

How Can I support the Rushcliffe Barn Owl Project?

RuBOP is run entirely by volunteers. Howard Broughton is the principal driving force - he has the licence from Natural England to investigate the nest boxes and the licence from the BTO to ring the birds. He arranges the field work, liaises with the landowners, gets the boxes built and helps raise funds.

He has assistance in the fieldwork from whomever he can coerce and recently this has been from Chris Hughes, Laura Green, Jim Wilson, Phil Read and Neil Pinder. Circumstances change and others are unable to commit in the long term but we are grateful to Nova, Tanavi, Gordon and many others. There are others whose names have not been mentioned but we are grateful to them all and last but not least we should acknowlege Clive and Speedy who started it all.

RuBOP needs money to run the Project: The main cost is the 4WD vehicle that is essential to get materials across farmland and of course its running costs. If you would like to help financially, Howard would be delighted to receive a cheque made payable to "Rushcliffe Barn Owl Project".

Howard Broughton

5 Park Road

Plumtree Park

Keyworth

Notts NG12 5LX

Past Donations

  • Hickling Scarecrow Weekend - £100
  • Keyworth Parish Council - £100
  • Granby cum Sutton Parish Council - £100
  • Costock Parish Council - £75
  • Mrs Rosie Jarvis of Langar - £100
  • Bunny Parish Council - £50
  • Whatton in the Vale PC - £100
  • Cotgrave PC - £100
  • Gotham PC - £100
  • Wysall & Thorpe in the Glebe PC - £50
  • Holme Pierrepont and Gamston PC - £100
  • Kingston on Soar PC - £25
  • Plumtree PC - £100
  • Normanton on the Wolds PC - £50
  • East Leake PC - £150
  • Colston Bassett PC - £50
  • Aslockton PC - £50
  • Bingham TC - £80
  • Radcliffe on Trent PC - £100
  • Kinoulton PC - £50
  • Widmerpool PC - £50
  • Langar and Barnstone PC- £100
  • Hathern PC - £75
  • Stanford on Soar PC - £20

Thanks to everyone involved and for all your fantastic support.