- Three new Sustainability Partnership projects completed.
- Mycelium fertiliser trial at Goodwood Estate.
- Erosion protection at the Goodwood Trundle.
- Disused pond restored for school lessons.
- Over 60,000 trees planted in earlier projects.
Goodwood Estate and its neighbour, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, have completed three new projects under their Sustainability Partnership, which shares expertise and resources to protect and improve the landscape around the carmaker’s home in West Sussex. The work covers a fertiliser trial, conservation at an ancient monument and the restoration of a pond for use by local schools.
Mycelium fertiliser trial at Goodwood
Rolls-Royce supported a trial of mycelium-enriched fertiliser on the estate. Mycelium is the root-like structure of fungi, and the pellets are meant to improve soil health, strengthen ecosystems and reduce reliance on synthetic alternatives by regenerating the biological layer of soil. After the trial succeeded, the marque’s environmental specialists began using some of the fertiliser at the Home of Rolls-Royce. Approximately one-third of the factory’s site extension project will consist of features designed to support wildlife and biodiversity.
Goodwood Trundle conservation work
About three miles from the factory, the Trundle is a Scheduled Monument made up of an Iron Age hillfort and a Neolithic monument, with evidence of human use going back around 5,000 years. Growing visitor numbers have caused erosion damage. Working with Historic England and the South Downs National Park Authority, the partners identified non-invasive protection measures, including a replenishable chalk layer within the ramparts to shield the underlying archaeology. Interpretation boards and short films now explain the site’s history and ecology.
Home Farm pond restored for pupils
Inactive for 30 years, a pond at Goodwood Home Farm has been reshaped to improve access for larger mammals such as deer and foxes, and planted with native aquatic species. A new jetty gives children safe access for pond-dipping. It now forms part of the Goodwood Education Trust’s curriculum as a living laboratory for ecology, conservation and sustainability.
“These latest projects reflect the breadth of that relationship,” said Samuel Beadle, Corporate Communications Manager at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
Earlier Rolls-Royce and Goodwood partnership projects
Previous work has included planting more than 60,000 trees, buying a wildflower seed harvester to collect and replant native species, and research into rare Barbastelle bats and their use of Chichester’s Strategic Wildlife Corridor, part of which passes through the Home of Rolls-Royce. The partnership has also created new permissive walking routes around the estate. More detail is available in the Wildlife at the Home of Rolls-Royce press kit on the PressClub media website.
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