A £150 million, 10-year programme to help save the countryside: 'Our job is to give money away to do good things'

A new National Lottery fund of £150 million will issue grants to link up work by landowners, farmers, Nature organisations and volunteers to the benefit of everyone in the countryside. Annunciata Elwes reports.

A recent project in the Shropshire Hills is typical of the sort of work the Landscape Connections programme will fund.

Lottery funding is now being used to benefit Nature with a new 10-year programme. Annunciata Elwes reports.