The success of our organisation demonstrates the potential of visitor contribution fundraising.

With well over £1 million raised by businesses to date, our results speak for themselves.

We have 14 years experience of working with businesses, motivating them to support conservation and environmental initiatives. We also work with conservation organisations and encourage them to consider the possibilities of private sector support.

Interested in Visitor Payback in your area?

If you represent a public body, conservation organisation or tourism group and are looking to develop your own approach, we can guide your steps through our extensive experience and expertise.

We can outline methods of gaining continued support from public agencies, assessing realistic core costs, employing a project officer, linking tourism businesses with a conservation project and how the private sector can use this as a marketing tool.

Learning Visits

We can arrange Learning Visits of any length to allow you to see first hand the impact that this approach has had in Cumbria. Board members and key fundraising businesses will be available for you to speak to.

Groups that have participated on these visits have understood the benefit of this approach, and private sector businesses participating in such visits have been inspired to try fundraising within their own organisations.

Group Presentations

Claire Chapman, Partnership Manager will visit your organisation, and present to key stakeholders, explaining how such an approach can work in your local area.

Further Support

If you would like further support in establishing a scheme, this can be arranged, with recruitment assistance and mentoring support available for new staff.

"The learning visit which was arranged by Claire was an excellent example of how businesses within different National Parks can learn and apply examples of best practice for the overall benefit of the UK's national parks. The balance between Claire's excellent presentation on the background and activity of the Tourism and Conservation Partnership, visits to businesses who supported projects and the chance to see projects being undertaken at first hand was exactly what was required. Feedback from participants was unanimously positive with a real desire to apply a similar approach within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park."
- Paul McCafferty, Tourism Team Leader, Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley.