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Peterborough Celebrates Festival

Peterborough Celebrates Festival is a fabulous celebration of our city and all the reasons we love it - our culture, our music, our diversity and our talented communities.

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Lakeside Activity Centre

Lakeside Activity Centre will offer the people of Peterborough, in particular families and young people, exciting new leisure, and sporting opportunities. We have now submitted revised plans and hope to start construction in early 2027.

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Your Community Greenspace

This five year project, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund will complete in 2026 and includes improvements to Park infrastructure, new events and community projects that will respond to the growth of the city and region.

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Collection Connects

This Arts Council funded project is all about bringing people closer to the artworks in the Peterborough Sculpture Collection as well as supporting some much needed sculpture conservation work.

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Painting of the Norman Cross prisoner of war camp in the 1790s.

Norman Cross

Thanks to funding from Historic England and The National Lottery Heritage Fund we have now taken ownership of this site of the world's first purpose built prisoner of war camp, just south of Peterborough. We want to preserve the site and tell its fascinating story.

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Front cover image of the Nene Park Trust Investment Prospectus, showing school children planting seeds.

Investing in Impact

In May 2025 we launched our Investing in Impact prospectus which we will hope will help form connections with people and organisations to make a real difference to the lives of people in Peterborough and the region.

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Prestley Country Park

Nene Park Trust is working in partnership with Urban and Civic to develop Prestley Country Park at the Alconbury Weald housing development, near Huntingdon.

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Lynch Farm

Lynch Farm is a hidden gem, a Grade II listed farmhouse and outbuildings on the edge of Ferry Meadows in approximately 7 acres of paddocks and green space. Nene Park Trust is working on a plan to bring the site back into community use. 

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Land at Eye

Back in 2024, Nene Park Trust purchased 552 acres of land at Eye (area to the East of Peterborough) with the purpose of developing a sustainable farming model on the site, with thanks to funding from NEIRF (Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund).

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Building Healthier Green Futures

In February 2025, we were proud to announce the launch of a new two-year project to improve the lives of young people in Peterborough, thanks to £160,000 funding from The National Lottery Community Fund.

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Restoring Peterborough Arch

In 2025, Nene Park Trust received funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England, Peterborough Civic Society, Compare the Market and donations gratefully received from our visitors and supporters, to save the much-loved Peterborough Arch sculpture.

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Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG)

We help developers achieve BNG by creating and enhancing habitats across our estate, from woodlands and wetlands, supporting wildlife and enriching biodiversity.

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