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The story of CONKERS
The creation of CONKERS (previously known as the National Forest Millennium Discovery Centre) was pioneered by the Heart of the National Forest Foundation - a partnership of business, the community and the public sector, drawn principally from Leicestershire and supported by an influential body of Patrons.
Five years ago, the Foundation's vision was born. It was to create a magnificent wooded parkland, at the heart of the emerging National Forest, with which to celebrate the new millennium. This Leicestershire Forest Park, which will ultimately span 1000 acres, will be the means of restoring huge tracts of derelict land, left devastated by the closure of the old Midlands Coalfields.
Right at the heart of the Leicestershire Forest Park, on the site of the old Rawdon colliery at Moira - the last deep mine to close in the Coalfields ten years ago - would be created the National Forest Millennium Discovery Centre which has since been renamed CONKERS.
The Foundation's vision won huge community backing and, with the significant support of the public and private sectors, became the subject of a successful £6.2million bid to the Millennium Commission. The total capital cost of the initiative is in excess of £16 million.
The Heart of the National Forest Foundation considers that the creation
of CONKERS will be magnificent gift to this millennium. It will be the
hub of the whole regeneration of the devastated Midlands Coalfields, at
the heart of the emerging National Forest, and the catalyst for the creation
of the wider 1000-acre LeicestershireForest Park.
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