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The North Face to fund conservation projects across Europe

03/07/2019
The North Face (TNF) has teamed up The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) to find projects to fund across Europe.

The TNF Explore Fund funds non-profit organisations around the themes of Enabling Exploration and Loving Wild Places.  

The outdoor company is working with the UK’s Outward Bound Trust, and projects have included taking children from inner city areas to the Lake District.

Julian Lings, CSR and sustainability manager for TNF, said: ”The Loving Wild Places part of the Explore Fund is all about valuing wild places for the mental and physical benefits they bring – and therefore protecting them and looking after them so that those opportunities are available for everyone, now and into the future.  

“We are thrilled to be working with EOCA to find some really exciting projects to fund. The Association has been working in exactly this area for the last 13 years and its knowledge and experience in funding, assessing and managing this type of conservation work is invaluable.”

EOCA will shortlist organisations in the UK, Germany and Italy and TNF employees will choose projects they would like to see funded. 

Tanya Bascombe, joint general manager of EOCA added: “This is a fantastic opportunity to show what kinds of projects are out there, and to be asked to help The North Face in their search for their prestigious Explore Fund shows how well regarded the projects that EOCA funds are.   

“The North Face automatically becomes a Summit Member of EOCA through its funding of the projects it chooses. It has also generously signed up to become a Sustaining Member, thus helping to finance the running of the association, and we look forward to many more fruitful years of cooperation together.”


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