In our northern England project area at RSPB Geltsdale - funding from the #GreenRecoveryChallengeFund and #FellfootForward has supported our curlew conservation work over the past year.
Here’s a glimpse of what we’ve been up to!
We are delighted to be collaborating with Eden Rivers Trust and the Fellfoot Forward Project. We had a wonderful day....even in the rain! Eden Rivers Trust @FellfootForward @NorthPennAONB
Busy balsam bashing today in Glassonby. It’s getting competitive for the tallest- 2.97m is currently in the lead! 🏅 Eden Rivers Trust @NorthPennAONB #fellfootforward #balsambashing
Doing a talk at 7pm this evening about this beautiful building, The Watson Institute, in #castlecarrock & how we've gone about restoring it - free tkts avail here northpennines.org.uk/restoring-the-… Chris WS #fellfootforward @NorthPennAONB
Landscapes for Everyone 2020! The National Lottery Heritage Fund North fund this brilliant project #FellFootForward in @NorthPennAONB - this poster from #LFE2020 tells you all about the excellent #NFM , fables and natural history they are enhancing and sharing .... thanks Emma! uplandsalliance.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/emma-w…
A lovely couple of days with Jodie Hannis conducting community archaeology #geophysics on a moated manor in Cumbria with @NorthPennAONB for #FellfootForward 🎉 magnetometry, resistivity, topo and earthwork survey - all of my favourite things! DigVentures Archaeology
Day 14: Grinsdale to King Garth 👑
On this stretch Cargo tops the sewage league for 2022 with an eye watering annual total of >2,700 hours and spills on most days!
#SewageScandal #riverpollution #fellfootforward
Feargal Sharkey RiverActionUK Julia Aglionby 🧡 Cazgraham
0930 ZOOM: The Knotted Project share fabulous film of 'Forge the Future'; #gigoftheweek is creative goings on in #Carlisle with shipping containers & street art & old fire station planning; & @NorthPennAONB #Fellfootforward arts plans are laid out. 0930-1030. Come along & enjoy & learn.
A day sharing learning across 2 great The National Lottery Heritage Fund projects, #ryevitalise North York Moors NP (we’re a delivery partner) and #fellfootforward @NorthPennAONB. Can you identify the stone circle (clue - it’s 3rd largest in England)?
Day 13: Park Broom to Carlisle, Sheepmount 🐑
Anticipating urban obstacles on this through-the-city stretch - instead we were gifted...an OTTER! 🦦
Eden Rivers Trust Julia Aglionby 🧡 The National Lottery Heritage Fund North @NorthPennAONB
#fellfootforward
Day 15: King Garth to Old Sandsfield
Last day of the Big Swim!
What a summer, what a swim, what finds, what folk, what fun along the way.
Next up...
Film, findings, action points.
Keep following!
#thebigswim #fellfootforward
Cazgraham Julia Aglionby 🧡
Here's some we finished earlier...love taking Trustees and guests to see projects in action in the eastern part of rhe catchment, doing their job to slow and store water after #StormFranklin . #fellfootforward
We spent the day at the River Eden to discover the wildlife that lives in a healthy river. Eden Rivers Trust @FellfootForward @NorthPennAONB
1000 new hedge plants in the ground thanks to 22 volunteers who turned out. Great work everyone 👊👍👌 #FellFootForward #NorthPenninesAonb Woodland Trust🌳
A beautiful day on Eden's fellside showing @HeritageFundNW what the #fellfootforward landscape partnership hopes to achieve for landscape connectivity, resilience and cultural heritage Visit Eden Cumbria County Council Eden District Council Chris WS Eden Rivers Trust
Tree planting day with #fellfootforward today. 14 highly motivated volunteers got 210m of new hedgerow in the ground powered on high hall pulled pork for lunch.
