Island 2000 Trust
“Island 2000 Trust” sustainability project playing cards, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, c. 2005.
This pack of 52 cards, 4 jokers and 2 information cards presents the staff and work of the Island 2000 Trust. The aces and pip cards of this large format pack (11.0 x 6.5 cm) show photographs of the different work and projects being undertaken by the Trust: community projects (clubs), arts programmes (hearts), conservation work (spades) and tourism promotion (diamonds). The court cards and jokers show drawings of the staff, all of which are named in the accompanying 16-page booklet, which also provides details about the projects illustrated. Read more►
Above: “Island 2000 Trust” sustainabiity project playing cards, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, c. 2005.
The Island 2000 project began in 1997 as a partnership between 10 organisations: Isle of Wight Council, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Unit, Rural Community Council, National Trust, National Farmers Union, Country Land and Business Association, Environment Agency, Countryside Commission, Association of Town and Parish Councils and Southern Water. The Island 2000 Trust was renamed in May 2019 to Natural Enterprise. The organisation combines expertise in conservation, countryside management, sustainable development, business support, project and programme management and communications, with all profits reinvested for the sole benefit of the Isle of Wight, its communities and countryside.
By Peter Burnett
Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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