We’re delighted to be supporting the Earth Trust to work with Oxfordshire employment charity ‘Aspire’, on a project to bring those at risk of homelessness and disadvantage closer to nature. Recent data shows that if a person is unemployed, living in an area of high deprivation or has a low income, they are significantly less...
Hazel spent a year learning butterfly, bird and plants identification and survey methodology with the 'Tracking the Impact' project.
In the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs, almost 200 communities and 70,000 properties are at risk of groundwater flooding. Due to groundwater flooding typically affecting small rural communities, it can be hard for people to support one another. It also means that groundwater flooding often fails to qualify for flood management funding.
Did you know hedges were used as living fences, marking ownership and keeping animals in or out of a field? However, over time, gaps in the hedgerows develop allowing animals to escape or trample crops. For years this has been managed with a technique called hedge laying, which involves cutting each stem and laying it down...
