Go Cycle - Cycling in Leighton-Linslade
In June 2008 Bedfordshire County Council and the Town Council were successful in a bid to secure over £1milliion funding for Leighton Linslade to become Bedfordshire’s first cycling town.

Over the project timeframe, Leighton-Linslade Cycling Team will focus on the challenging target of an overall doubling of cycling.

Groundwork Luton and South Bedfordshire
Groundwork Luton & South Bedfordshire is a charitable trust providing environmental solutions to local authorities, schools, communities, corporations and a variety of other organisations big and small. They have been involved in projects in the area since 2004 and formalised our presence in Luton and Bedfordshire in 2006 through a partnership between Groundwork, Central Bedfordshire Council and Luton Borough Council.

The Greensand Trust
The Greensand Trust is an independent environmental charity that works with local communities and landowners to conserve and promote the distinctive landscape, wildlife and history of the Greensand Ridge and the wider surrounding area. Improving access, understanding and enjoyment for the benefit of everyone.

South Bedfordshire Friends of the Earth
A friendly and diverse group working together to protect both the local and global environment. At a local level they campaign for better cycling, walking and buses, saving local green spaces and wildlife, campaigning for renewable energy and energy efficiency in homes, reducing waste and supporting local shops, markets and local food. Nationally they are campaigning for a strong Climate Change Bill through parliament. Globally they are campaigning to save rainforests etc.

Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough exists to conserve and promote the natural environment for the benefit of wildlife, people and future generations. In Bedfordshire they manage 26 nature reserves.  They provide an education service at Randalls Farm in Stewartby and at Priory Country Park in Bedford.  There are several local groups within Bedfordshire giving evening talks and guided walks. Volunteer groups go out weekly as work parties onto our reverses.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Climate change is the greatest long term threat to wildlife. The state of our waters has a massive impact on the birds and wildlife that rely on wetlands and coasts. The waste we produce and what we do with it affects the wild spaces around us. The RSPB is taking action to tackle these threats to birds, wildlife and the environment.

Fairtrade Leighton Linslade
Leighton-Linslade was established as Bedfordshire's first Fairtrade Town. By choosing products with the FAIRTRADE Mark you can be sure that they have been independently certified to ensure producers have been paid a fair and stable price for their products, as well as a social premium to invest in developing their businesses and improving their communities. By choosing Fairtrade products, we play our part in enabling farmers and workers to bring about change today in their own lives and communities, as well as sending our a signal for justice in wider international trade.

Chilterns Conservation Board
The Chiltern Hills are a beautiful, unspoilt corner of England. They lie only a few miles to the north-west of London and yet have a very rural character. The Chilterns begin in Oxfordshire in the Thames Valley and stretch north-east through Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire to Hitchin in Hertfordshire.

Maston Vale Trust
Their challenge is to use trees and woodlands to transform 61 square miles between Bedford and Milton Keynes, repairing a landscape scarred by decades of clay extraction, brickmaking and landfill.

They have already planted around 1 million trees and by 2030 they will plant 5 million more, working with local communities, government and businesses, to create new woods and other wild places for everyone to enjoy."

National Trust
The National Trust is a charity and is completely independent of Government. They rely for income on membership fees, donations and legacies, and revenue raised from their commercial operations.

Bedford and Luton Green Infrastructure Consortium
The Bedfordshire and Luton Green Infrastructure Consortium is a multi-functional partnership consisting of local authorities, Government agencies, countryside and community related organisations.

The Consortium encompasses a wide range of interests from within the sector, including landscape, archaeological and historical as well as countryside and green space. This enables it to draw from a deep pool of knowledge. In creating its definition of Green Infrastructure, the Consortium has been careful to include these wider interests in a landscape so strongly influenced by its history.