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January 2023 – March 2024

Annual Review

About Friends of the Lake District

Friends of the Lake District is a charity (reg. 1100759) which works to ensure the beautiful Cumbrian landscape is conserved and enhanced for generations to come.

We do this by bringing our members, volunteers and staff together to campaign for a landscape that is beautiful, diverse, locally distinctive, tranquil, environmentally healthy, accessible and enjoyed by all.

We also work to ensure that everyone is inspired by the landscape, understands how it has been shaped and knows how they can help safeguard it for generations to come.

View from Place Fell towards the Helvellyn range – an entry into our 2023 Photography Competition © John Cobham

Welcome to our Annual Review

Welcome to our Annual Review, a snapshot of everything we have been up to in the last year.* And what a year it’s been.

Just some of the highlights include completing the amazing Westmorland Dales Project, our hedge laying and dry stone walling competitions, our work promoting dark skies, and our successful National Park Societies Annual Conference, which we co-hosted with our friends from the Campaign for National Parks. Two major planning issues also dominated our work this year: Elterwater and Roanhead, which you can also read about on the following pages.

There’s so much we need to do to protect this complex Lakeland landscape which is constantly in danger of being ‘loved to death’, but which is still able to offer a tranquil refuge if you choose the right place on the right day. As we approach our 90th birthday in 2024, the work we do to protect and enhance these wonderful landscapes is as important now as it was when we were founded all those years ago.

This has also been a year in which we’ve looked to what comes next in our work. As a membership charity we need to stay focused on the topics that interest our members.

Across the summer of 2023, we ran the largest consultation exercise we’ve ever undertaken, with thousands of questionnaires sent to members, supporters, staff, trustees, and the general public. The results were fascinating, and directly influenced the formation of a new strategy. Members told us they wanted us to focus on responding to planning applications, campaigning against inappropriate development, water quality, climate change, and protecting the tranquillity of the Cumbrian landscapes. This information will help us shape our work in the years to come.

Finally, none of the work outlined in this Annual Review would be possible without the help and support of our dedicated members, volunteers, trustees, staff, donors and benefactors. To each and every one of them I want to express my personal thanks for all that they do.

Michael Hill CEO, Friends of the Lake District

*Because of a change in our accounting processes and the way in which we report, this Annual Review covers a 15-month period from January 2023 until March 2024.

Landscape Matters

Elterwater

In March 2022 plans began to emerge for a significant tourist development at Elterwater Quarry in the Langdale Valley. These originally included a ‘cavern coaster’ and an outdoor zip wire. We expressed concern during pre-application consultations, as did over 90,000 signatories to a local petition, and plans were scaled down before being submitted to the Lake District National Park Authority in January 2023, with these elements being removed. Friends of the Lake District continued to campaign against the proposal, on the grounds of, among other things, the impact increased traffic would have on the tranquillity and rural character of the area. The plans were rejected in September 2023 as the planning committee were not satisfied by transport plans submitted by the applicant. A revised proposal, with an updated travel plan, was then submitted in December but we were unconvinced by the travel arrangements and our concerns about the impact on the local area remained. In March 2024 we organised a rally near the proposed site at Elterwater which attracted over 100 people and gained a lot of media attention.

Planning Responses

Between January 2023 and March 2024, we responded to 45 (0.5%) planning applications out of a total of 9,627 valid applications received by Cumbrian Planning Authorities. We objected to just 0.3% of all valid applications received. The greatest proportion of those we responded to were within the Lake District National Park.

We objected to just 0.3% of all valid planning applications received by local authorities between January 2023 and March 2024.

Protesters at Elterwater © Jonny Gios

Roanhead: Working with Local Communities

The Save Roanhead campaign was set up by a local community group in response to a proposal to develop a major holiday park on the Furness peninsula, close to internationally important wildlife sites. In July 2023, Friends of the Lake District helped stage a Make a Stand on the Sand event which gained lots of media coverage. Developers withdrew their initial application for a holiday resort consisting of 450 lodges, but since then, a new application for a reduced number of lodges (233) has been put forward. Concerns about the impact of the resort on the surrounding natural environment remain the same.

“Friends of the Lake District helped us to understand the planning process. Nobody in the group had done anything like this before. We knew nothing about councils and the Local Plan, about applications, or about Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Lorayne, the Friends’ Planning Officer, helped us when we had questions, shared a template objection letter and knowledge about how to object. The Make a Stand on the Sand event was brilliant: 80 people walked from Askam to Roanhead with a BBC film crew and we got some amazing publicity – and actual objections! – from that day. We couldn’t have made such an impact without Lorayne’s help and the support of Friends of the Lake District.” – Claire Gould, a member of Save Roanhead campaign group

Roanhead dunes and beach © Claire Gould

Masts

Throughout 2023 there was an influx of proposals for telecommunications masts to be placed throughout the Lake District. These were linked to the Government’s roll-out of 4G connectivity and preparation for 5G.

Whilst Friends of the Lake District appreciates the need for mobile and internet connectivity in rural areas, many of the applications for masts were ill-thought-out and lacked important information regarding aspects such as assessed alternatives, and existing and anticipated coverage.

Between January 2023 and March 2024 we worked with local communities to respond to 12 ill-considered planning applications in relation to masts and successfully challenged 11 of them.

From our Planning Officer

“Whilst we have been part of many successful outcomes in terms of seeing harmful applications refused or withdrawn, it’s been really positive to see the impact we have had in terms of changes being made to proposals at our suggestion to reduce or avoid harmful effects. For example, we did not object in principle to the redevelopment of a café at Hartside summit, in the North Pennines National Landscape (formerly an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), after the original café burnt down, but we did have grave concerns about the design, scale and inclusion of a hotel and retail facilities, so we were really pleased to see a revised application for a much more appropriate proposal. Similarly, a new ropes course at Whinlatter was ultimately approved but without the two huge zip wires originally proposed which would have crossed the valley.”

– Lorayne Wall, Planning Officer

Improving the View

Thanks to our lobbying of the government regulator, Ofgem, to retain its undergrounding allowance (money made available to energy providers to place power lines underground) a new five-year programme began last year.

Friends of the Lake District continues to work with its partners – Electricity North West, National Parks and National Landscapes – to agree undergrounding schemes in Cumbria, as part of its Overhead Wires project. This enhances the character of the landscape. It also makes the energy infrastructure more resilient to extreme weather.

A number of schemes were achieved last year, including: Helsington church, Aughertree near Caldbeck, Thompson Ground near Hawkshead, and Mungrisdale (all in Lake District National Park) plus RSPB Clesketts in North Pennines, RSPB North Plain on Solway Coast, and New Barns in Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape.

Between January 2023 and March 2024 nearly 10km of overhead lines were removed – that’s more than twice the planned target for a year.

Undergrounding work at Thompson Ground

Partnership Working

We know we work best when we work together with our partners across the region. We continue, for example, to represent landscape on the Lake District National Park Partnership, Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape Executive Committee and Solway Coast National Landscapes Joint Advisory Committee.

Cutting Carbon in Cumbria

Our work with the Zero Carbon Cumbria Partnership has helped get Emissions Reduction Action Plans up and running with bold targets for carbon reduction across a number of areas in Cumbria, including transport, housing and buildings, waste, and agriculture and biodiversity. We also helped develop a Roof First Solar campaign with our colleagues at CPRE – The Countryside Charity, which urges the Government to fully realise the potential of solar panels on rooftops, rather than using farmland or other land for solar panels.

Transport Report

We supported Action with Communities in Cumbria on developing the transport report ‘Where do you want to get to? Public appetites for the future of the Lake

District’s transport system’ which will be published later in 2024. The research, which started in 2022 and went on throughout 2023, looked at visitors and residents’ attitudes to transport in the Lake District using on-street and online surveys, alongside focus groups. The research, jointly funded by Friends of the Lake District, Lake District National Park Authority and Action with Communities, has found that both visitors and local people are keen to see a change in the Lake District’s transport system.

“People want better and more extensive and integrated public transport…”

Fix the Fells

As a partner of the Fix the Fells Programme, Friends of the Lake District was delighted that an independent evaluation report found that the programme plays a vital role in the conservation of the Lake District uplands and has a positive impact on changing the way people behave when walking in the fells. The evaluation was carried out as a requirement of the European Regional Development Fund, which funded the programme from April 2019 to June 2023.

Friends of the Lake District is proud to continue to support the programme through our role as a Fix the Fells board member, the sale of our Fix the Fells Landscape Gift, and

by joining forces on volunteer events such as our annual Fell Care Day – a mass volunteering event which takes place in November.

Last year’s Fell Care Day welcomed 60 volunteers, task leaders and Friends of the Lake District staff to sites around Buttermere valley, carrying out a wide range of conservation tasks. They contributed around 300 hours of conservation work.

• 7.5 metres of hedge laid at Watergate Farm, Loweswater.

• 7 metres of dry stone wall rebuilt at High Nook, Loweswater (pictured above), led by the National Trust.

• 400 tree shelters and stakes extended and redundant shelters removed from trees planted in the Hobcarton Valley, led by Forestry England.

• 12km walked maintaining the Fleetwith Pike fell path with Fix the Fells.

• Hemlock plant regeneration removed from Lanthwaite Wood with the National Trust.

• Scrub was cleared across a two-acre area of wetland with West Cumbria Rivers Trust.

Dark Skies

Award-Winning Work

In 2023, the Cumbria Good Lighting Technical Advice Note, developed in conjunction with Dark Source Lighting Design, was launched. The guide provides lighting guidance to planners and planning applicants, and is also designed to help individuals, organisations and communities to make good lighting choices. The work was supported and endorsed by planning authorities across Cumbria and the Yorkshire Dales National Park. By developing it, we hope to achieve a net reduction in light pollution across the region, helping to protect the darkest areas and reduce light pollution in those areas already affected. Almost as soon as it was launched, the guide won two awards: the Platinum and Green Build Back Better Awards which champion innovation, creativity, environmental leadership and social purpose.

of Cumbria's night skies were in the darkest category, and largely free from light pollution, according to the 2015 CPRE Night Blight Mapping project. But areas impacted by light pollution are increasing.

Milky Way above Crummock Water © Mark Hetherington

Lighting the Way

Last year, we worked with Patterdale and Sedbergh Parish Councils who installed new dark sky and wildlife-friendly street lights. As our Dark Skies officer Jack Ellerby explains: “The design of the new lights means their beam throws light onto path and road surfaces, rather than up into the sky. They are a warmer colour too, which is gentler on our eyes and better for wildlife that’s active overnight.”

Stargazing

There were over 100 Dark Sky events across the region organised by our Dark Skies partners and businesses, which included dark sky walks, a ‘moonwatch’ with Kirkbie Kendal school pupils, talks, canoeing trips and wild swimming under the stars. We also ran three Big Switch-Off events with two councils where businesses, community groups and residents in Ambleside, Grasmere and Keswick turned off lights to enjoy the night sky. In addition, we created a ‘Cumbria Dark Skies room brochure’ for hotel and B&B guests to encourage them to step outside, look up and be wowed by how many stars they could see.

Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership Scheme

Westmorland Dales is a beautiful area of Cumbria north of the Howgill Fells and within the north-west corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It stretches from Tebay in the south-west to Kirkby Stephen in the east and to Maulds Meaburn in the north-west. At its heart are the limestone fells above Orton and Asby, rich in natural and cultural heritage, and with magnificent views to the Pennines, the Howgills and the Lakeland fells.

The Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership, led by Friends of the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, delivered a range of projects, mainly funded through the National Lottery Heritage Fund. It ran over a five-year period from March 2019 to February 2024. Its vision was to unlock and reveal the hidden heritage of the Westmorland Dales, enabling more people to connect with, enjoy and benefit from this inspirational landscape. It had four key objectives:

• Revealing the area’s hidden heritage.

• Conserving what makes the area special.

• Engaging people in enjoying and benefitting from their heritage.

• Sustaining the benefits of the scheme in the long-term.

Outcomes from the project included:

archaeological trenches and pits excavated 50 hectares of habitat restored 33.2

archaeological and built heritage features surveyed 2,272 trees planted 17,628

apprenticeships and trainee placements completed 10

historic buildings and monuments conserved 7 training days delivered 733

volunteer days contributed 1,750

Illustrations by www.sinclair-illustration.co.uk

To find out more about the project and its outcomes, visit www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk/westmorland-dales

Friends in the Community

Last year we delivered 40 events, including conservation days, litter picking, training, and traditional rural skills such as hedge laying and dry stone walling. More than 800 people took part in one or more of our events.

Great Cumbrian Litter Picks

We led two Great Cumbrian litter picks between January 2023 and March 2024. Community groups, schools and individual volunteers from all over the county helped to pick up litter from their local streets, school grounds, public areas, lakes and mountain tops.

At least 203 bags of rubbish were collected by 450 people across both events.

“Great to give something back to a place I love and visit year on year.” – Great Cumbria Litter Pick participant

Hedge Laying and Dry Stone Walling Competitions

We held two hedge laying competitions, and one for dry stone walling, between January 2023 and March 2024.

Hedgerows and dry stone walls are significant features in the Lake District. They are an important part of our cultural heritage, help keep livestock in place, and provide habitats for all kinds of nature.

Their maintenance is vital to retain the landscape character of the Lake District, but the traditional skills needed to maintain them are being lost. The Friends of the Lake District hedge laying and dry stone walling competitions encourage people to learn these skills, to keep hedgerows thriving and dry stone walls in good shape.

The youngest entrant in our 2023 dry stone walling competition was aged 11.

Leaders' Landscape Training Programme

Our Leaders’ Landscape Training sessions are aimed at outdoor practitioners to help deepen their understanding of Cumbria’s landscapes and enable them to pass on their new-found knowledge to those with whom they work. The sessions are also offered as accredited Continuous Professional Development training through the Mountain Training Association. Last year’s sessions were themed around geology with sessions discussing topics such as how our landscapes have been formed, and the features of glaciation and the last ice age.

38 people attended Leaders ' Landscape Training sessions with an estimated reach of 4,000 people with whom they will share their new-found knowledge.

Nurtured by Nature

Through this project we were able to offer free opportunities for key workers and others to get involved in different well-being activities, whether to take a break from the stresses of everyday life, get out with like-minded people, or build the skills and confidence to continue to get out in nature in their own time.

We held 22 events between February and November 2023 including guided walks, navigation training days, forest and sound bathing, wild swimming and alpaca walking.

Working with Schools

43 pupils and five staff from Sedbergh School visited our land at High Borrowdale in December for their ‘Giving Back Day’. They removed around 500 tree tubes from the fell-side and re-staked many trees. Meanwhile, children from Threlkeld Primary School helped build a willow den on our land at Dam Mire Wood (pictured above). The school uses the site regularly as part of their forest school sessions, which Friends of the Lake District is helping to run.

Nurtured by Nature walk on Blencathra summit

Volunteers Workparties

In 2023/24 we ran 45 conservation workparty events on our land, where volunteers gave us 1,800 hours of their time to help out with things such as repairing dry stone walls, clearing footpaths, and managing woodland.

We restored around 30m of dry stone wall, finished 420m of new hedge at High Borrowdale, and planted 200 trees and 200 wetland plug plants.

“Though volunteering with Friends of the Lake District I’ve discovered amazing places that I didn’t know about such as High Borrowdale and Little Asby. I also enjoy the physical activity and the company. It’s a real privilege to be able to do it.” – Mary, a workparty volunteer

Volunteer Training

In 2023, we introduced a series of ecology themed events to train people in a range of subjects so that they could then help us survey our land. We held sessions with specialised trainers covering lichens, birds, veteran and ancient trees, upland hay meadow species, and butterflies and moths.

The best time to hear birds is mid-April to mid-June

Here’s just a bit of what we found out!

• Lichens often have food names, such as jam tarts or wine gums.

• Some tree leaves have y-shaped hairs on them.

• Butterflies and moths migrate from far afield much like small birds do.

• The best time to hear birds is mid-April to mid-June.

• In our Rusland Woods we have some trees that are over 1,000 years old!

The value of the volunteers doing these ecological surveys is massive: it tells us more about what we have on our land, and helps others researching issues such as climate change and its effects on species.

Volunteers on the Rise

In September 2023 we recruited a new Volunteer Coordinator and since then we have seen a 60% increase in our active volunteer numbers across the charity. 78 new volunteers have registered with us in the last 15 months. At the end of March 2024 we had around 57 active volunteers.

Introducing our Ambassadors

Early in 2024, we recruited our very first volunteer Ambassador team. These 12 amazing new volunteers are now trained and equipped to help represent us, with the support of paid staff, at a range of events throughout the year.

Our Land

Friends of the Lake District has owned land in Cumbria since 1937. We own land in order to enhance the landscape of the area, increase access and model best practice in land management. Our land includes valleys, native woodlands, moorlands, uplands and commons. We own 12 pieces of land scattered across the Lake District National Park and Cumbria covering approximately 600 hectares (6 square kilometres). We also manage Gillside on behalf of Friends of the Lake District members Bev and Jo Dennison.

Benefits of the Land

Last year, we commissioned the first ever assessment of the multiple benefits that land provides for society. We focused on Little Asby Common and our report found the land delivers between £20 million to £60 million of public benefits in terms of health and well-being, access and recreation, nature, and cultural heritage. This research can help us make the case for better funding to protect and enhance landscapes in the future, for example.

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Virtual Tours

In 2023, we launched a virtual tour of High Borrowdale and began work on six other properties, enabling people to explore our beautiful landscapes from the comfort of their own armchairs no matter where they are in the world. We also added digital information points onto our High Borrowdale land, meaning people can watch videos explaining more about the area around them as they explore.

Rusland Woods

Bull Coppice and Resp Haw Wood, running down the eastern side of the Rusland Valley, were gifted to us in 2019 by David Archibald, a long-standing member and supporter. The woods are a delightful mix of oak, birch, ash, small-leaved lime, holly and other native species and they are a significant part of the character of the valley.

JANUARY 2023 – MARCH 2024

Last year two experts on bryophytes – a group of plants which include mosses, liverworts and hornworts – surveyed both woods to help establish whether they are remnants of ancient Atlantic woodland, since bryophytes are a key indicator of this.

In their initial survey Peter Bullard and Gary Lawrence found 44 species of bryophyte, of which six are on the indicator list for Atlantic Woodland. When they went back for a second visit, the species list had climbed to 70, including one which is known in very few sites in England outside the Rusland Valley.

Similar studies by tree expert Luke Steer identified pollarded holly and veteran yew trees which are several hundred years old, and some small-leaved lime trees which may be thousands of years old.

We own and manage other woodlands in Eskdale, Ambleside, Grasmere and Staveley. Our experience and sympathetic management of woodland properties help ensure a healthy future for all of these wonderful and ecologically important places.

Creating Conversations

National Park Societies Conference in Kendal

Representatives from the UK’s 15 national parks societies, government and partner organisations gathered in Kendal in October for the 2023 National Park Societies Annual Conference co-hosted by Friends of the Lake District and Campaign for National Parks. Key topics included the Sandford Principle, politics, policy making and campaigning.

“Thanks to you and your team. What an outstanding conference! We really enjoyed it. I felt it had such energy. I saw a tweet about it being ‘radical’ so I am pleased about that!” – Conference delegate

In the

Media

Last year, we issued 44 press releases to local, regional and national press and responded to 131 media enquiries. We gained coverage from, among many others, BBC radio, television and online, ITV, Guardian, Telegraph, Westmorland Gazette, Keswick Reminder, News and Star, Global Radio, Cumbria magazine, NW Evening Mail, Cumbria Herald and Cumbria Crack online.

National Park Societies Conference delegates

Kirby Lecture

Our 2023 Kirby lecture was titled ‘Reimagining Lakeland’s Water: Fresh Ideas for a Sparkling Future’, and it was inspired by the pollution-free Lake Annecy in France. There was a briefing about the science behind water from the Freshwater Biological Association and West Cumbria Rivers Trust, and then speakers talked about the main challenges facing water quality: mains and public sewage, private septic tanks and agricultural run-off. They answered lots of searching questions from a packed audience and presented their visions for the future of water in Cumbria.

Membership

In 2023/24 we had two membership meet-ups plus a well-attended Annual General Meeting and a sell-out Kirby lecture. We coincided our February 2024 member meet-up with our Ambleside Big Switch-Off event and spent time exploring all the incredible achievements of our Dark Skies project.

We published four editions of our membership magazine Conserving Lakeland, and a special supplement on climate and biodiversity. We also sent 15 Postcard from Lakes e-newsletters to members and supporters.

Between January 2023 and March 2024 we welcomed 279 new members. We’re working on a new membership strategy which will be launched later in the year.

– the approximate number of pieces of cake consumed last year at member meet-ups, volunteer workparties and other events.

Lake Annecy (Photo: Alamy)

Finance Report

Fundraising

We ran four appeals last year to raise funds for land management, planning and campaigning, a general appeal and our 90th Birthday Nature Appeal. 229 walkers took part in the annual Morecambe Bay Crossing in 2023.

Merchandise

Our 2023 photo competition contest attracted over 600 entries. Winning images featured in our 2023 Christmas card collection and 2024 calendar. Along with Christmas cards and calendars, sales of our notecards, tea towels, landscape gifts and art prints generated £22,479.

Finance Figures for 2023/24

Total Income

£1,094,503

Voluntary Income –Legacies, Donations and Membership

Subscriptions

£699,913

Grants

£232,908

Charitable Activities

£15,534

Trading Activities

£22,479

Investments

£123,669

Total Expenditure

£1,510,940

Generating

Voluntary Income (including Membership)

£172,368

Charitable Activities

£1,248,814

Trading Activities

£72,544

Investment

Management Costs

£17,214

Total Funds / Net Assets at 31 March 2024

£5,444,629

Tangible Assets (including properties)

£1,604,473

Investments

£2,848,637

Net Current Assets

£991,519

The figures above are extracted from our 2023/24 audited accounts. A full report will be available to download from www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk from the beginning of September 2024.

Thankyou

Thank you to our members, supporters and partner organisations for all their support during the last 15 months. From generous donations, to the hard work of our volunteers, we’re grateful for all the contributions that we’ve received to help us protect and enhance Cumbrian landscapes.

We also wish express our sincere gratitude to those who left a gift to Friends of the Lake District in their Will:

Joyce Andrews, Jill Austin, Eileen Barton, Joyce Blanchard, Sheila Brandon, Sylvia Brockbank, Gilian Brown, Patricia

Joan Crompton, David Cutforth, Robert Harry Hill, Betty Hinchliffe, Ann Hinton, Duncan Hobbs, Christine Huggins, Nancy Hyde, Katharine Mary Jephcott, Rita Langman, Brian Lawrence, Barbara Peel, Robin Scoones, Robert K. Thompson, Judith Todd, Raymond Todd, Alan Wells, and Constance Wright.

Leaving a lasting legacy is a wonderful way to ensure that future generations can continue to enjoy the tranquillity and beauty of these special places. If you’d like to know more about leaving a legacy, please contact claire.coburn@fld.org.uk.

We’d also like to thank and honour donations made in the memory of: John Battersby, Mrs Bower, Susan Bradley, Winefride Bromley, David Cutforth, Joanna Gent, Jeffrey Hazelton, Joy Hutchings, Geoff Mather, Godfrey Moy, John Nutter, John Pattison, Alan Place, Heather Reid Whittaker, Jean Savage, Pat Schwarzenbach, Eric Stuffins, Michael Thurman, Rita Tuck and Sharon Bloomfield, Simon Rodney Tudor, Joanna Wates, Neil Wraight, Constance Wright, and Sheila Willett Anholt.

And finally, we’d like to thank our benefactors for their continued support: John Berry, James Brockbank and Louise Ronane, John Campbell, Richard Coates, Philip Cropper, Margaret Haigh, John Harris, Peter Hughes KC, John and Margaret Jackson, Brian Leigh-Bramwell, Rosamund Macfarlane, Taysia and Matt Malone, Jim and Sue Martin, Angela Monkman-Brushett, and Elizabeth Reddaway.

For 90 years, Friends of the Lake District has been dedicated to protecting and enhancing Cumbria’s landscapes. Please support us to help continue this work.

Become a member of Friends of the Lake District. Membership costs from just £2.75 a month and in return for your support, you’ll receive:

• Three copies of exclusive members’ magazine every year.

• Discounts on entry to historic Cumbrian attractions, outdoor clothing providers and other Lake District companies.

• Free walks, talks and events held throughout the year.

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