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Are protected landscapes relevant to the majority of the population? Does it really matter if people don't recognise the designation and purpose? And if not, how can we do things differently (or amend our messages) to be more relevant and visible?'
Site Visits
Low Beckside Farm near Penrith
18th October 2024
We will be hosted by staff from the owners and managers of the farm, Ernest Cook Trust, and will learn more about how they run it as a base for green skills and land based learning. We will also hear more about the Trust’s plans for managing the land with nature in mind, and their links with Cumbria Connect operating across the county. If you are interested in apprenticeships for young people, we will hear direct from some of those involved here at Low Beckside.
Free shuttle bus provided from Penrith station @10.30am, the visit will run from 11am until 3pm with a buffet lunch provided,
Travel bursaries available for young people (age under 30) with grateful thanks to Ernest Cook Trust for financial support. Please contact [email protected]
Connemara National Park
4th November 2024
The site visit will look at the establishment of community training and projects to control rhododendron, and how this work is supporting their incomes, and also as a result some people have found careers in the NPWS.
There will be presentations from Forum Connemara regarding the Dulra project, from WAN/Leenane Development Association regarding Rhododendron Management in the Bundorragha river catchment area, from Farm Relief Services on working with the NPWS on Rhododendron management projects, and NPWS speaking on some of our experiences.
Programme will be approximately talks in the morning, which could also be available to access online, which would be followed by an early lunch and then a field trip to look at one of the projects in the afternoon finishing at 16.00
Field Trip to Chilterns National Landscape
13th November 2024
Field Trip to Chilterns National Landscape
Date: Wednesday 13th November 2024 10.30 to find out more about the national arts programme ‘Nature Calling’.
Focussing on our conference theme ‘Nature for All’ this trip is hosted by Chilterns National Landscape in the Luton area. Join us to find out more about the creative process with writer Lee Nelson supported by Luton based arts organisation Revoluton Arts. Find out how they are engaging with local communities and linking with the chalk grasslands and surrounding hills as well as local greenspaces and heritage. Lee is an exciting and established artist who works with words and people in his home town of Luton. We will hear more about the Nature Calling programme happening across 6 national landscapes in 2024-25; how this work will engage with new audiences living locally; and why nature and landscapes for everyone is key to the future of protected landscapes.
Details: meet at Bushmead community hub in North Luton for 10.30am. The visit will include a walk around Bradgers Hill County Wildlife Site followed by presentations and a discussion at nearby Marsh Farm, home of Revoluton Arts who are producing this initiative.
Lunch will be provided and the visit will conclude by 3.00pm.
Places limited to 18 people.
Event Chair
Chris Dean
Chris has an MSc in Countryside Management and has worked in countryside management for more than four decades. Over the years, Chris has worked for the Countryside Agency and Calderdale Countryside service, among others. Since 2002 Chris has led the Moors for the Future Partnership (MFFP) team in the Peak District and South Pennines. To date, the organisation has raised £40 million to restore what is an environmental catastrophe of degradation across this blanket bog landscape. The Partnership is presently delivering the largest LIFE programme grant ever awarded to a UK conservation project, MoorLIFE 2020. Chris retired in 2024 but still engaged in Peatland management and sits on a number of boards.
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