By joining us as a Joint Regional Friend, you will not only be supporting our work, but you will also enjoy year-round parking at all South West Lakes Trust car parks. Your donation will help us to continue looking after the countryside surrounding the lakes of the south west, from maintaining footpaths, meadows and play areas that enable more young people to connect with nature, to supporting our Environment team to delivering vital environmental restoration and protection to our countryside habitats and wildlife.

Joint Regional Friends will receive:

• A parking pass for up to two vehicles to use in all South West Lakes Trust car parks;
• The opportunity to sign-up to our monthly e-newsletter to receive regular updates about our work and give feedback.

The cost for an annual Joint Regional Friendship is £60.

Further information on your parking pass

Car parking is a really important source of fundraising for our charity. All income from our car parks contributes to the upkeep and enhancement of the lakes for our visitors and wildlife.

We use a combination of ticket machines and automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to manage our car parks. As a Friend, we will collect details about your car registrations, so that you can park free-of-charge at all our lakes for a year with two vehicles. 

Smart Parking operate the ANPR on behalf of South West Lakes Trust at Argal, Roadford, Siblyback and Tamar Lakes. 

As such, your name and car registrations will be shared with Smart Parking, who will be operating the ANPR on our behalf. Further information on South West Lakes Trust's privacy policy can be accessed here. Further information on Smart Parking’s personal data privacy policy can be accessed here.

Smart Parking will hold your registrations until the end of your Friendship. After this date your details will be removed from the system and you will not be entitled to free parking.

If at any time during your Friendship you change your vehicle, it will be your responsibility to inform us of these changes so we can update our records. Your can email us on [email protected].

Main image: Bee at Longham Lakes by Linda Martin.