📢Calling all young story tellers, we want to hear from you!

We're offering up to £1,000 to young people who want to develop their communication and storytelling skills and share their stories of #NationalParks ✍️📷🎥

Learn more and apply👉 bit.ly/new-perspectiv…

Congratulations to everyone who took part in Ten Tors this weekend. The energy at the finish line was incredible. 💪

📸 Compass Learning Centre, Weymouth
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#ArmyTenTors #TenTors2024 #Dartmoor #Devon #NationalParksUK #Hiking #Camping #Wildcamping #SaveDartmoor

Some wonderful shots of the Aurora Borealis from our land at Sharpitor over the weekend.

📸Adam Sparkes

#Dartmoor #Aurora #Aurora Borealis #NorthernLights #Photography #NationalParksUK

Join Villages in Action and storytellers Sara Hurley & Lisa Schneidau for 'Chasing Crockern: Stories of Dartmoor' as they breathe fresh life into Dartmoor folklore🌳

Community gatherings in Princetown (June 1) & Buckfastleigh (June 2)

villagesinaction.co.uk/events/

Best of luck to everyone taking part in the Ten Tors and Jubilee Challenges this weekend!

📸Stride Cornwall

#MoorBoots #TenTors #TenTors 2024 #Dartmoor #OutdoorLife #NationalParksUK

Please save the date for our largest AGM yet, featuring an afternoon mini-conference guest speakers Jon Avon from the Curlew Recovery Project and Phil Newman, Archaeologist.

📝tinyurl.com/DPAAGM2024

#Dartmoor #Charity #Conservation #NationalParksUK #CurlewRecovery #Archaeology

'This funding will transform their experience of Dartmoor and enable a life long love of the great outdoors with kit which will last.'

Ten Tors begins TOMORROW⛺

📸Stride Cornwall

#MoorBoots #TenTors #TenTors 2024 #Dartmoor #NationalParksUK

FreePort is worrying. No need at all for Dartmoor National Park to be in the outer boundary. We all need a good hard look at whats going on there. Murky. Someone in 'authority' needs to either back the boundary or remove it. (hint- remove it) Plymouth City Council Dartmoor Preservation Association Campaign for National Parks

The stars are for everyone > resurgence.org/magazine/artic…

Fern Leigh Albert reports on the ongoing campaign to keep wild camping legal in Devon’s Dartmoor National Park. In the run up to a case at The Supreme Court, further actions are planned to highlight this deeply valued freedom to

'Having financial support for kit can make a huge difference in enabling students to access the outdoors and engage positively with the environment.'
📸 Compass
#MoorBoots #TenTors #TenTors 2024 #Dartmoor #NationalParksUK #OutdoorLife

I love bogs because they
-are weird and unstable
-were considered portals to the gods
-are beautiful in an eerie way
-are storytellers
-are powerful enough to control Earth’s climate
-are vulnerable and need protection.

Save bogs to save ourselves.

'This will allow one of our pupils to take part knowing she has her own boots and dry feet! No pressure on borrowing kit. We can then re -use the gaiters for future team members.'
📸Compass

#MoorBoots #Dartmoor #NationalParksUK #TenTors #TenTors 2024 #OutdoorGear

Brilliant Fern Leigh Albert This fight is still on. Big day in early October in the Supreme Court. 🤞 Appeal is still live: justgiving.com/campaign/Backp… (there are so many amazing things we can do for young people, access and the national park if not needed for fees) Dartmoor Preservation Association

We are seeking a dedicated Communications and Projects Officer to join our team. 🍃

Closing date: 17th May 2024

tinyurl.com/DPACareers

#Dartmoor #Communications #Careers #DevonJobs #Conservation #Biodiversity #HybridJobs #WorkFromHome

'It will make the challenge more accessible to students who do not have the funds to purchase waterproofs, boots and camping equipment themselves.'

📸 Compass

#Dartmoor #MoorBoots #TenTors #TenTors 2024 #Hiking #Camping #OutdoorEducation #AccessForAll #OutdoorSkills

Walking is a great way to experience #NationalParks and it's vital that everyone should has access to spend time in these incredible spaces 🥾

May is #NationalWalkingMonth , what's your favourite National Park walk?

📍 Cat Bells walk, Lake District

So pleased with the launch of our charitable equipment programme; MoorBoots. The impact its already having on young people is amazing. Next year bigger and better! come and talk to us, we love to partner. The Stars are for Everyone Dartmoor Wildcamping Action Group Alpkit Cotswold Outdoor BMC Access Team

Training is well underway and the teams are out in the elements with their new kit!🌿

We are on a mission to remove financial barriers to the great outdoors in collaboration with #TenTors through our #MoorBoots grant-giving scheme🥾

#Dartmoor #Camping #NationalParks

Nature is in crisis📢

We need all politicians to rise to the challenge🌱

Over 100,000 people have signed our #Nature2030 letter to all political parties demanding 5 urgent actions to protect & restore nature by 2030💚

Read more👇

wcl.org.uk/nature2030.asp

⛺️Dartmoor National Park Authority have updated the map showing where public can camp on the commons...

Regardless of the outcome in the Supreme Court this autumn, this will likely be the definitive zonation going forward.

🧵So, let’s take a look at what’s GONE and what's NEW.