A man whose community spirit helped secure grants for his cricket club and local woodland is to be remembered when a stone boundary wall is built.

A plaque to honour Malcolm Garbutt, former treasurer of Embsay cricket club, near Skipton, who died in September, is to be built into the club boundary wall in Shires Lane, Embsay.

One of his last contributions to the club was to help secure a £2,000 Yorventure grant to fund the rebuilding work on the dry-stone wall. Eighty yards of wall had fallen down in four places and needed demolition and rebuilding to make it safe.

Club chairman Trevor Coe said: "We are immensely grateful that Malcolm stepped in to suggest Yorventure so we thought it would be fitting to commemorate his contribution when the new wall is built.''

Yorventure is a Government approved environmental body which receives Landfill Tax funds to spend on environmental projects.

Mr Garbutt, who was clerk to Embsay and Eastby parish council, also helped secure a £13,000 Yorventure grant for restoration work at Milking Hill Wood, near Embsay, at the beginning of the year.

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