The Chilterns Walking Festival kicks off this Saturday, 18 May! 🥾🌳

Explore the beautiful Chilterns National Landscape, discover new walks, and learn about history, heritage, wildlife, farming and much more!

Have you booked your walk yet? 👇

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A few photos from Hartslock, Oxfordshire, taken this week.
Lady-Monkeys looking magnificent and Monkeys just appearing.
BBO Wildlife Trust Chilterns National Landscape Wild Orchids UK & Ireland #hartslock #orchids

PLS COMPLETE OUR SURVEY. Whatever journey you're travelling with us, we'd like to take you into a future that engages, reaches & inspires our community to get involved in protecting our land, heritage, wildlife & environment around us. The National Lottery Heritage Fund ✨👉bit.ly/3UCVkRU

Exciting to show one of our Chalk Cherries and Chairs Team #farmercluster members his first Duke of Burgundy on a site neighbouring his farm that is brilliantly managed for them by National Trust South East & BC Upper Thames & Chiltern Rangers nice to also get my fix while they are still on the wing 👍👍

Learn about agroforestry in the Chilterns with Darvills Hill Farm. Take in the deciduous woodland, mixed orchard, living barn & hedgerows. 

📅 Sat, 18 May
🕚 11am
📍 Darvills Hill Farm, Princes Risborough
🚨 Booking essential

Find out more & book 👉 bit.ly/44OsJOx

What’s under the trees at Hexton? 🌲 Join me for a walk on 30th May with NE West Anglia Team for National Nature Reserve Week. Explore this ancient landscape and Natural England’s plans to restore it for nature
📌Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/876566743727…
Chilterns National Landscape CBA East 'Rewilding' Later Prehistory

Coming July 2024… The Chilterns Chairs Festival.
Join us and our 14 festival partners for a month of events and family fun to celebrate the unique chairmaking heritage of the local area.
Full programme coming soon.
Chalk Cherries and Chairs Team Chilterns National Landscape The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Amazing how much fun can be had in the rain! Great to spend a day w Eleanor & Drew showing how The National Lottery Heritage Fund benefits #nature #farming historic #environment & people in Chilterns National Landscape.
#Chilterns #landscapes Siôn McGeever Eilish McGuinness Department for Culture, Media and Sport The National Lottery Heritage Fund London & South Rebecca Pow National Landscapes Association

This evening, our team attended and were delighted to have been shortlisted for an award for our collaborative efforts with QMUL School of Geography at their Innovation Awards.

This is a result ofcollaborative efforts to improve the Chess #SmarterWaterCatchment

Chilterns National Landscape #QMULIA

Our Nature Calling artist info days are going brilliantly! Pics from the latest one in Chilterns National Landscape where we are working with Revoluton. If you're an artist, you can still attend the online info session on 8 May - find out more: ow.ly/hub250RuZzW
#artistopportunities

On Tues, we joined local artists & writers in Luton, as part of the Nature Calling national arts programme.

Are you an artist in the Chilterns? Submissions are still open & we want to hear from you!

Info session: 8 May
Closing date: 24 May

Apply now 👇

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It’s the May Day bank holiday weekend! That can only mean another circular walk to tempt you out into our beautiful countryside.
The circular route is 5.3 miles with a pub & hotel extension.
The trail is way-marked & stile-free.
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#NationalWalkingMonth

An energising day today - a morning Orchard View Farm with my brilliant #Communications Mgr, Vicki, planning our forthcoming Outstanding #Chilterns magazine (& buying delicious sausages), then a walk & chat with Drew Bennellick The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
#lovemyjob #Chilterns #landscape

🚨Applications are now open for the Chilterns New Shoots programme! 🚨

Do you know a young wildlife enthusiast aged 14-18 who is looking for hands on conservation experience? New Shoots could be for them!

👇Find out more (closing date Monday, 3 June)
bit.ly/44CFXhf

Mary-Ann advocates for positive change in our countryside and this is worth your time if working in comms and marketing. Make a start.

Interesting letter from Rebecca Pow on govt's approach to urban #greenspace . More work is needed to tackle barriers to accessing greenspace & the #countryside . See our research in Chilterns National Landscape: chilterns.org.uk/news/our-new-s…
Steve Barclay Drew Bennellick Tony Juniper Gurch Randhawa

Weather (17 degrees and sunny 👏) finally gave me a chance for my 1st Chalk Cherries and Chairs Team Tracking the Impact WCBS survey today 👍 2 Green Hairstreaks the highlight. Got bit sidetracked by Grass Snake and Slow Worms under the reptile tins 🤫 and the amazing Fly Orchids too 👍

Chesham Wildlife Group have produced 8 posters covering #chalkstream wildlife, birds, mammals, trees, butterflies, fungi, garden birds & flowers. Available FREE to schools in the Chilterns National Landscape thanks to funding from the Smarter Water Catchment Project . bit.ly/3xPLCE4

We were talking about this on our recent woodland walk:

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#Spanishbluebell #nativebluebells

The bluebells are just so beautiful atm 💙🌿

Lovely piece in the The Telegraph this week showcasing the best of our National Landscapes. We're lucky to have 46 beautiful National Landscapes across the UK.

Read the article 👇
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Discover towns, walks & days out in the Chilterns 👇
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