Oh dear, attempts at keeping this uptodate have failed miserably. With this in mind, might I recommend keeping an eye on our Facebook page instead?
In summary, we've had a wonderfully busy summer, and are now busy catching up with everything that got put on hold while we were zooming around Cornwall delivering training, workshops, engaging with lots of lovely people, talking nature recovery, ecology and all the important things in life, and eating lots of pasties (not me, personally - I ate only a few delicious gluten-free versions).
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Excitedly, we were successful in our National Lottery Awards for All funding bid, and are looking forward to getting started with this in the New Year.
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We're also very proud to announce that the fabulous Penwith Wildlife Recorders Group are among those shortlisted for one of the biological recording equivalents of an Oscar, in the NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2024
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Penwith Wildlife Recorders Group are a legacy of the Penwith Landscape Partnership project, and were effectively guinea pigs for a training model that we'd hoped would work to help create a new and cohesive group of biological recorders, all but one of whom had no previous experience of recording. The group has gone from strength to strength, are a brilliant and inspirational bunch of people, and this shortlisting is very well-deserved.
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Please see first paragraph of May 2024...
So, just a quickie to say that we rather than attempting to include updates here, we now have an Events page, which will include details of upcoming events, how to book, etc. We're running around all over the place at the mo, meeting all sorts of lovely people and visiting all sorts of beautiful (even in persistent rain) places. And, we look forward to catching up with and meeting even more of of you over the next few months!
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Oh dear, busy-ness has struck again, thwarting all our best-laid plans to keep things up-to-date! A newsletter is in the pipeline, so I'll try to be concise here - ahem...
Winter has been spent doing lots of behind the scenes work, putting heads together with various individuals and organisations, and enjoying the odd day out, keep an eye on what's going on in the Great Outdoors. Emerging from the other side, we've attended a university careers fair, learned all about a Nature-based Solutions via a local flood resilience project, provided training in meadow-surveying, planted some orchard trees with local schoolchildren, written lots about the ecology of Cornish Hedges, as well as delivering workshops on the subject, hosted a conference workshop, given a talk about orchard ecology and met up with orchard enthusiasts old and new, attended a BioBlitz, talked Nature Recovery with local councils, communities and organisations, written a funding bid for a community-based project, created a Facebook page for all things wild on Cornwall's dunes, and we're now diving head-first into many more workshops and events galore!
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Do keep an eye on our Facebook page for upcoming events, although I will endeavour to include the necessary info here also.
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​As is evident by the three-month gap between updates, things have continued to be very hectic! Updates have been provided on our Facebook page, so at least we haven't been completely remiss at keeping you in the loop...
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In lieu of written updates here, we will be moving to production of a regular newsletter, which will be added here but which will also be available via a (free) email subscription. If you would like to receive our newsletter, please sign up here.
11 June 2023
This week has been hectic but most enjoyable. Here in West Cornwall, the hot weather and sunshine persisted for the first half of the week, to be replaced by the odd rain shower, overcast skies, a couple of breezy days and despite the humidity, generally lower temperatures.
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Over the course of the week, we've talked Grasses with University of Exeter students, looked for Dune Bees and other lovely things on the very hot Towans with the Dynamic Dunescapes gang, revisited the Towans and Gwithian Green in less hot conditions with the Penwith Wildlife Recorders Group, and headed east to the other end of the county to meet with the lovely Friends of Tincombe, following which I delved into the world of Sway to make a thing!
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Plans for our Introductory Ecology workshops are developing nicely, so if you are a Penwith resident (or work in Penwith) and are initested in attending, do get in touch. Pretty poster available here.
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Next week, we're in Par for Insects with the G7 folk, venturing to the beautiful Roseland Peninsula to support Wild Roseland volunteers in their endeavours, attending the Penwith Landscape Partnership Finale party, exploring the Zennor headland, and possibly popping up to Colliford Lake to participate in a BioBlitz. There's a distinct possibility that some of us will be a bit too pooped by all of this but the mind's willing, at least!
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28 May 2023
Silly Season continues for the Budding Nature team, with what can sometimes feel like a non-stop stream of workshops, BioBlitzes and similar events!
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This week, between us (and amongst other things), we’ve had an online meeting about how we might be able to support some important community work in Bude, introduced/reintroduced Dynamic Dunescapes volunteers new and old to the wonderful world of insect identification, delivered the first of our annual series of workshops to University of Exeter students at the Penryn Campus, spent three hours at sea with the Marine Discovery team (getting very wet in the process) and members of the Penwith Wildlife Recording Group, had a fabulous day out with the Botanical Cornwall Group on the Lizard, and one of us might’ve overdone it somewhat by clambering down and up the coast path whilst carrying very heavy and unwieldy camera equipment, during an otherwise lovely day out with a friend from UpCountry.
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Next week continues to be rather hectic, with three more University of Exeter workshops, a fair bit of behind-the-scenes work (admin, planning, researching, designing, etc.), and hopefully, another day out checking out Penwith orchards.
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