🚨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)
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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:

wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-i…

#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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We're looking to partner with a creative digital agency (or individuals) to bring to life an innovative fundraising campaign concept to help us to raise £600K of match funding towards our BLACK BARN PROJECT supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Dynamic digital dynamos step this way!💚 🌎

A brilliant evening indeed, celebrating with Surrey Hills National Landscape & friends, incl Julian Glover, with his infectious optimism for the future of #NationalLandscapes , despite all the challenges we face.
Siôn McGeever National Landscapes Association The National Lottery Heritage Fund NEThamesSolent Drew Bennellick Chilterns National Landscape

Spring has sprung in the Mend the Gap programme area! 

We’re celebrating the unique plants of the south Chilterns. The Loddon lily thrives in the wet woodlands along the River Thames & has burst into flower in recent weeks. 

Tag us in your springtime photos!

📸 Dave Olinksi

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

#Bluebells in #cowleazewoods Chilterns National Landscape today.

Loved walkin' & talkin' W my granddaughter abt sticks, 🐝 stomping in muddy puddles wearing her bright 💛 welly boots & tall, tall trees 🌳

👣 & 🎶 #weregoingonabearhunt 🐻 by Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 which she 💚

Best day of the wk 🌿

This #EarthDay2024 we're celebrating all our projects in the Chilterns National Landscape!

From chalk stream & grassland restoration to community gardens & nature-friendly farming, our staff, partners & volunteers work hard to enhance & conserve our beautiful #Chilterns .

Joined Chilterns National Landscape ZSL Conservation British Ecological Society Land Use Summit. Sharing how Big Chalk project can help deliver 30by30 nature targets. Linking 13 Protected Landscapes, 26 Local Nature Recovery Strategy areas across S England, bringing Making Space for Nature to life. #nature

Prime bluebell season in the Chilterns. ⁦Chilterns National Landscape⁩ ⁦ChilternChalkStreams⁩ ⁦Chiltern Society⁩

Out on Chalk Cherries and Chairs Team #trackingtheimpact Breeding Bird Surveys this morning. 7 Corn Bunting, 3 Yellowhammer & 7 Linnet territories (lot more birds still around feeders) reward for the efforts of #centralchilterns farmer cluster & shows value of structured surveying to support them 👍🍾

Join Dr Geeta Ludhra for a guided walk across Sharpenhoe Clappers, in the north #Chilterns .

Learn about Iron Age hillforts, identify wildflowers & discover some haunted legends! 🥾🌳

📅 April 28
🕙10am
📍Sundon Hills car park, LU3 3PE. 

Find out more 👉 bit.ly/49wyNM8

Grant funding available. Are you a landowner or land manager? Did you know you could apply for grant funding as part of the River Chess Smarter Water Catchment? 

From hedgerows to rain gardens – we want to hear from you!

Find our more & apply 👇
chesssmarterwatercatchment.org/about-the-proj…

Our latest newsletter is out now! Covering wetland creation on the Hamble Brook, river restoration on the R. Chess Association, 15 years of the 'Trout in the Classroom' education programme, a new catchment plan for the Ewelme Brook, citizen science update & more👉 bit.ly/3U0xvDd

Have you visited The Art of the Chair, our new exhibition, yet? From Victorian traveling salesmen’s artwork, to slick 1970s adverts. Discover designs that made Wycombe chairs known around the world.
Funded by Chalk Cherries and Chairs Team Chilterns National Landscape The National Lottery Heritage Fund
➡️ bit.ly/3VPmIyu