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Speaker: Harriet Trueman, Wilder Ouse Officer

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Speaker: Harriet Trueman, Wilder Ouse Officer

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Harriet Trueman - Wilder Ouse Officer

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Dr Chris Sandom - Nature Sense

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Nature Sense : Expertise, consulting and commission research for business : ... : Collaborate : University of Sussex

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Find out how we can help you grow your organisation by connecting you with our people and their cutting edge expertise.

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Speaker: Dylan Walker, Peoples Park for Nature

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Speaker: Dylan Walker, Peoples Park for Nature

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Dylan Walker - Peoples Park for Nature.

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Tilly Corcoran - Weald to Waves

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Goal 1

To create a nationally significant wildlife corridor of 100 miles in length, from the Ashdown Forest, via Knepp Wildland, taking in three rivers to bolster the kelp forests off the Sussex Coast. As farmers and land managers, we will register over 20,000 hectares as a ribbon of largely contiguous natural habitat so that wildlife can travel through the landscape more easily. We will collaborate with councils, businesses, services, charities and community groups to join the dots.

Goal 2

We will promote nature as a provider of vital ecosystem services - clean water, fertile soils, pollination, carbon capture and flood control. This will involve sustainable farming along the corridor, and across Sussex, to protect and enhance those services and a reduction of the pollutants that are compromising our landscape, and flowing into our waterways and marine environment. We will track and evidence our progress and push for accountability and transparency for all those with a responsibility for land and water management. From Wealden forests to kelp forests, rewilded gardens to farm hedgerows, restored rivers to wild beaches, and from butterfly banks to wildflower verges - all efforts will be recognised.

Goal 3

We will engage people and communities across Sussex by creating new opportunities to understand, enjoy and protect nature along the corridor. We help to track and connect projects that enhance life along the corridor route, weaving socio-economic and environmental objectives together so that communities can thrive alongside nature. This will involve harnessing regional capacity and knowledge and ensuring that all voices are heard.

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Local Nature Recovery Strategy Publications 

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Local Nature Recovery Strategy Publications 

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Speaker: Dr Kate Cole, Local Nature Recovery Strategy 

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Speaker: Dr Kate Cole, Local Nature Recovery Strategy 

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Dr Kate Cole - LNRS

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Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) are a statutory requirement from the Environment Act 2021. Their aim is to identify the important places for nature that are left, and encourage and target opportunities to restore or create it, where this can have the most benefit for wildlife and people.

The West Sussex LNRS and the East Sussex and Brighton & Hove LNRS are two of 48 strategies that have been prepared across the whole of England. These collaboratively produced blueprints show where there's a need and the appetite to recover important habitats and species to target funding, investment and action.

During their preparation, residents, community groups, land managers and organisations in Sussex were invited to develop shared priorities for nature's recovery and identify how and where these could be delivered.

Now published, and containing over 100 practical actions to recover nature at all scales, everyone in Sussex can get involved in taking their LNRS forward.

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Sussex Nature Recovery | Sussex Nature Recovery

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Spending time in nature is good for our health and wellbeing. It gives us our food and water, supports jobs and the economy, and provides other things we may take for granted: clean air, clean water, the regulation of our climate, protection from flooding and much more.

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Speaker: Pete King, Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust

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Speaker: Pete King, Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust

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Pete King - OART

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Inspiring & leading action for healthy rivers across Sussex

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Speaker: Joseph Geall, The Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs

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Speaker: Joseph Geall, The Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs

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Joe Geall: The Lost Woods

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The Lost Woods project is bringing local people together to learn about, explore, and care for woods across the Low Weald and Downs in Sussex.

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Manager of Ceremonies: Caroline Croft, The Southwood Foundation 

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Manager of Ceremonies: Caroline Croft, The Southwood Foundation 

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Caroline Croft, The Southwood Foundation.

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The Southwood Foundation convening climate and biodiversity action

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We work with like-minded environmentalists to imagine, create and deliver innovative solutions to the challenges that will define our era.

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Matthew Bird - Love Our Ouse

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Love our Ouse is about being inclusive and connecting all sorts of people; residents, community groups, recreational users, landowners, farmers and everything in between! We will prioritize communities who will be most affected by the adverse impacts of pollution, climate change and other threats to river ecology.

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Speaker: Fran Southgate, Beavers, Sussex Wildlife Trust 

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Speaker: Fran Southgate, Beavers, Sussex Wildlife Trust 

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Fran Southgate - Nature Recovery Manager

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Speaker: Grace Garland, Helen Taylor, Green Britain Foundation

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Speaker: Grace Garland, Helen Taylor, Green Britain Foundation

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Helen Taylor and Grace Garland - GBF, Beaver Reintroductions on the Ouse

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Speaker: Miriam Swan, South Downs National Park Authority

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Speaker: Miriam Swan, South Downs National Park Authority

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Miriam Swan - SDNP, Funding opportunities

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Grants and Funding - South Downs National Park

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Are you looking for funding towards a community project in the South Downs National Park? Our vibrant towns and villages are one of our special qualities and we are working hard to support the villages and towns in and around the National Park to enhance the vital role they play as social and economic hubs. […]

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Janet Whitman - High Weald, Grants

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The High Weald National Landscape Partnership currently runs two major grant schemes - the High Weald Nature and Community Fund (previously known as Sussex Lund) and the Farming in Protected Landscapes Programme.
Both schemes support projects that preserve our beautiful landscape and meet national and local goals for climate, nature, people and place,

As well as our major grants programmes we run programmes such as the High Weald Lund Fellowship, an individual grant to help people gain knowledge and skills to benefit the High Weald, Removing Barriers to Access, a capital fund for projects to overcome accessibility challenges, and the Schools Grant Scheme.

If you aren't sure what grant to apply for, fill in our enquiry form and we will get back to you. We are here to provide advice and support with developing projects and submitting a grant application.

If our grant schemes aren't right for your project we can also direct you to schemes run by others that may be suitable.

Quick look: Which programme is for me?

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The High Weald National Landscape Partnership currently runs two major grant schemes - the High Weald Nature and Community Fund (previously known as Sussex Lund) and the Farming in Protected Landscapes Programme.

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Speaker: Ali Wheeler, Elvie and Tom, NatureLinks

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Speaker: Ali Wheeler, Elvie and Tom, NatureLinks

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Nature Links Community Action Project | Railway Land Wildlife Trust

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This brand new project is about enhancing people's engagement with the local environment. It aims to bring people together to create more vibrant and sustainable places to live, work and play in and around Lewes District. The project has a strong focus on giving young people opportunities to bring their voices forward and empowering them to take part in: .

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Introduction Speaker: Libby Drew, Knepp Wildland Foundation

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Introduction Speaker: Libby Drew, Knepp Wildland Foundation

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Introduction Speaker: Henri Brocklebank, Sussex Wildlife Trust 

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Introduction Speaker: Henri Brocklebank, Sussex Wildlife Trust 

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Welcome to the Sussex Wildlife Trust, a conservation charity for everyone who cares about nature in Sussex

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Green United – Let’s change the way we do things

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The Newt Conservation Partnership is a community benefit society that creates and manages high quality habitat for Great Crested Newt.

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Welcome to Railway Land Wildlife Trust

At the Railway Land Wildlife Trust, we believe that looking through the lens of nature transforms how we understand, engage with and care for the natural world.

By respecting and working with natural processes, we create spaces where people feel deeply connected to the ecosystems around them. Through mindful exploration, dynamic conservation and community-led projects, we offer meaningful ways for people to experience and support the environment.

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The nature reserve is open 24 hours a day all year round and large parts of it are accessible by wheelchair.

Our beautiful purpose built centre, the Linklater Pavilion, can be found on Railway Lane at the entrance to the nature reserve. Get in touch if you would like to come and view our unique venue and discover how it could work for your function or event.

We are always looking for volunteers to get involved in running events at the Linklater Pavilion. Please

get in touch if you are interested in getting involved.

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Railway Land Wildlife Trust | Linklater Pavilion, Railway Ln, Lewes BN7 2FG

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The Railway Land Wildlife Trust is situated in Lewes, East Sussex, UK. We are an independant wildlife trust that specialises in social, educational and ecological projects. Our mission is to inspire environmental sustainability by bringing nature to the heart of Lewes.

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Red House Common Windmill

Chailey Windmill is a Grade II listed Smock Mill and stands on an historic site beside the yew tree said to mark the centre of Sussex. Records show that mills have stood here since at least 1590. It is a smock mill with a cap sitting on a spindle. More information at Chailey.org.

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Chailey Commons Society. Visiting and learning about the Commons and their habitats. Information, news and activities on and around the Commons of North Chailey, UK