🎉 THANK YOU 💚 £55,000 with over 500 supporters. We’ve been blown away by the support. YOU ARE BRILLIANT!! The crowdfunder now stays open, as we continue to raise as much as we can before we are ready to compete the purchase of the land.

The #BigButterflyCount 2024 is officially here! 🦋 Our butterflies and moths need our help more than ever. This is why we are urging everyone to get out for the Count to help us conserve them. 💚 Download our free app and ID guide today 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

An abundance of benefits are unlocked for nature, climate and people when moors are restored: 🐦 Wildlife and biodiversity 🌍 Carbon storage 💧Clean water 🏘️ Flood protection 👷‍♂️ Green jobs and skills Together, we can turn degraded moors into wild moors.

If you’ve ever wondered what a near-pristine piece of blanket bog looks like - this is it! Over 200 years, we’ve lost/severely damaged >99% of our raised bogs & >87% of our blanket bogs. Here’s hoping the fab work across our peatlands happening now can help get us back here!🌱❤️

A beautiful piece from last week 💚💚💚💚💚 theguardian.com/environment/ar…

The peatlands are the UK’s Amazon rainforest- unique, spectacular & globally important. It is vital we protect and restore them. Bog ugly, but totally magnificent: peatlands are finally getting the respect they deserve | Sophie Yeo | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In case you missed it, or just want to experience it again, Wilding is back on at Hebden Bridge Picture House, for 3 showings. Sun 18th Aug, 4pm Sat 24th Aug, 4pm Wed 28th Aug, 4pm We'll have a stall there, with T shirts and cards in stock (😱), so come and say hi!

Getting out in nature is great for our mental health - and we want to help you do that more often! Help us build a greener region, by telling us about the types of green spaces you enjoy and what nature means to you. Share your thoughts: yourvoice.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/wynature

It’s a beautiful day so why not pop up to the Blackshaw Head fete today. We will be there with lots of fundraising goodies so do come and say hello and find out more about what we have planned.

Many thanks to the organisers of Blackshaw Head Fete and to everyone who came to meet us today! Lots more t-shirts sold😁... Sunshine, great people, a lovely day.

#socialprescribing helps connect people to their local spaces and feel: ☀ Less stressed ☁ Less fatigued 🌲 Less anxious Send your GP a postcard to celebrate the value of green prescribing 👇 wildlifetrusts.org/nature-helps

#PeatlandRestoration from above! Timber dams and coir logs holding water, helping to create a green #Sphagnum river! 💚 #SphagnumMonday

🎨🖼. ART Auction News 🖼🎨 If you want to bid on art to help buy Bridestones as a community asset for biodiversity, nature & people, please sign up... Art goes live tonight at 7pm. facebook.com/groups/8623182… There's an in person auction of all the pieces on 12th Oct in Tod!

We have been sent some amazing pictures of the aurora borealis up at Bridestones last night! Thanks to Andy for sharing. We'll see you tomorrow at the AUCTION - SATURDAY 12th OCTOBER, 2-4pm, Natural Endings, Rise Lane, Todmorden. Free entry. Merch stall and raffle.