Landscapes, parks and nature

Restoring and revitalising a park for the whole community.

A Nottinghamshire community has been encouraged to explore, appreciate and care for local woodland in need of maintenance.

The Friends of Rectory Park worked with local people to investigate, protect and encourage the local wildlife and plant species.

The Avalon Marshes in the Brue valley are made up of flat, open landscapes, rivers, fens, nature reserves and prominent hills.

This £4.4million landscape partnership scheme has worked to restore lost habitats, develop skills and inspire young people to champion and look after the New Forest.

Held in 2016, the Capability Brown Festival was created to celebrate 300 years since the birth of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown – the ‘Shakespeare of gardening’.

A nature reserve was created at Eycott Hill in North Cumbria to preserve the natural environment of the area.

Ellis Humphrey Evans, better known by his bardic name, Hedd Wyn, was raised at Yr Ysgwrn and is best known for his poems that reflect on the horrors of the First World War. This project will ensure its conservation.

People learned about, recorded and became actively involved in caring for the fascinating built and natural heritage on their doorstep.

The Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust acquired the Meadow Farm site in Oxfordshire to preserve the untouched medieval meadows.

Rescued from the Sea aimed to excavate and rescue what is left of the Bronze Age cemetery site, and underlying Neolithic and Mesolithic deposits, at Low Hauxley, Northumberland before they are eroded into the sea.

Lightshaw Meadows was purchased in order to conserve and protect a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and increase public access to it.