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A Forest Promise - Prize Draw
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Support Crees Foundation for Manu and you could win the 124th Miniature. Enter now – every entry makes a difference!
🎟️ Prize Draw — Win the 124th Miniature!
More than half of Venetia's 123 miniatures were sold during the initial week of our primary Crowdfunder campaign. To celebrate this milestone, we are hosting a special prize draw. The grand prize winner will receive a bespoke, hand-painted framed miniature of any animal of their choosing (even your dog) in Venetia's classic medieval style, valued at £375!
To enter, simply purchase a Venetia Higgins artwork print for £20.
Complete details for both paid and free entry routes can be found in the terms section.
Enter our prize draw today for your last chance to win an original framed miniature, along with fantastic runner-up rewards! Second place features a 5-pack of fine art prints worth £100, while third place takes home a Venetia Higgins biodiversity inspired T-shirt worth £30
Prizes Available:
• First Prize (1 available): A bespoke framed miniature painting of any animal of your choosing (even your dog) in Venetia's medieval style, valued at £375.
• Second Prize (1 available): A set of 5 Fine Art Prints (10x10cm, 280gsm) from the Venetia Higgins Manu collection, each digitally signed with a total value of £100.
• Third Prize (1 available): A Venetia Higgins biodiversity inspired T-shirt worth £30
Selection will take place via Crowdfunder.co.uk's random number generator (https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/random-number-generator).
Winners are scheduled for announcement on November 1st, and all prizes will arrive by December 1st.
The Cause
Operating from a private reserve within the Manu Biosphere Reserve—the most biodiverse region on Earth—the Crees Foundation for Manu is a Peruvian non-profit organisation. For over 15 years, Crees has dedicated itself to gathering one of the largest multi-taxa biodiversity datasets in the Amazon.
In partnership with Nat5, Crees has leveraged this comprehensive dataset to launch Peru's very first Biodiversity Credit. By pioneering innovative biodiversity finance in this vital ecosystem, Crees aims to generate sustainable funding to scale its conservation initiatives. While these efforts begin in our private reserve, this Crowdfunder supports our ambition to expand across the entirety of Manu and Peru, highlighting Crees' long-standing impact and creative conservation solutions.
The Miniatures: Art That Funds Conservation
To bring this campaign to life, Crees has partnered with British artist Venetia Higgins to create 123 original framed miniatures - medieval-style paintings, each inspired by a charismatic species found at the Manu Learning Centre. Every miniature is one of a kind, representing a single species from the reserve.
Every miniature is imbued with a real biodiversity credit, generated directly from Crees' 15-year long-term dataset - so each artwork you receive carries a genuine, data-backed conservation outcome, not just a symbolic one.
Each miniature you receive comes paired with a real conservation contribution: 50% of every sale directly supports biodiversity conservation in the Peruvian Amazon. £75 of that is imbued in the artwork itself as a biodiversity credit contribution, with the remainder donated to the Crees Foundation for Manu.
If the originals sell out, prints of the miniatures will also be available - or you can support the campaign by purchasing a biodiversity credit contribution on its own.
Where Your Money Goes
Funds raised through this campaign directly expand Crees' biodiversity monitoring at the Manu Learning Centre and, over time, across the wider Manu landscape. Specifically, your support helps:
- Fund daily biodiversity monitoring and the training of Peruvian biologists, sustaining a programme that has run uninterrupted for 15 years.
- Produce educational materials, scientific articles, books and field guides from ongoing multi-taxa research.
- Publish Crees' long-term monitoring data on GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility - an open, international repository. Tropical regions like Manu are chronically under-researched compared with Europe and North America; putting this dataset online lets researchers worldwide draw on it, and helps correct that imbalance.
- Tropical Ecology Research - Tropical biodiversity hold its secret tightly, Crees will continue to reveal them to the world through rigorous science. We have over 60 published scientific articles and guides.
- Expand this pioneering financial model across the wider Manu landscape — scaling biodiversity credits beyond this pilot to other lodges and operators in the region, and, over time and only with each community's free, prior and informed consent, to Manu's indigenous communities, including Shipitieri, Diamante, Amarakeari, Palotoa, Queros and Santa Rosa de Huacaria. Indigenous peoples make up around 5% of the world's population but manage roughly a quarter of its land, including a third of the planet's remaining intact forest - land where biodiversity loss is consistently lower than the global average. Supporting the people already doing this work is central to where we want this model to go.
How to Enter
There are two ways to participate in this prize draw:
- Paid Entry: Purchase any of the five £20 artwork prints. Each print purchased counts as an entry, up to a maximum of five entries.
- Free Entry: Post the forestpromise.com link on your social media accounts (Instagram is preferred) and direct message screenshot proof to the Crees Foundation for Manu Instagram page. Sharing on different platforms grants additional entries (e.g., one for Instagram, one for X), capped at five entries total.
Participants must be at least 18 years old. While international entries are welcome, they remain subject to our shipping, customs, and taxes guidelines.
Shipping
UK and international shipping are included in the sale price.
Customs and Import Taxes
Please note that if your order is being shipped outside the United Kingdom, you may be liable for customs duties, import taxes or other fees imposed by the destination country. These charges are the responsibility of the buyer and are not included in the purchase price. If you are unsure whether these charges may apply, please contact your local customs office before placing your order.
Dispatch
All Prize Draw prize winners will be dispatched after the exhibition, from mid-November 2026.
Returns
As each Miniature is an original, one-of-a-kind piece, all sales are final and we are unable to accept returns or exchanges for change of mind. If your artwork arrives damaged or is not as described, please contact us within 7 days of delivery so that we can resolve the issue.
50% of prize draw proceeds will be donated to the Crees Foundation for Manu
The winners of the Prize Draw will be announced 1st of November and delivered by the 1st of December.
Thank you entering our prize draw and helping launch Peru's first ever biodiversity Credit.
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Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 1st November 2026 at 9:00pm