National Meadow Groups Conference – 15/11/24
On Friday 15 November 2024, 113 representatives from meadow groups and other organisations gathered at Norbury Village Hall for the first national meadow groups conference.
Delegates came from as far afield as Hampshire, Wye Valley, Salisbury, Cumbria and Merseyside.
The conference was organised by MMG committee member Janet Cobb, and sponsored by the Shropshire Hills Landscape Trust and supported by Middle Marches Community Land Trust.
Conference resources are below. A report is to follow.
Conference Resources
Click on the links below for the day’s presentations.
A conference report will follow.
Below are links to the presentations given on the day (links open as pdfs) and contact emails for speakers:
- Rachel Cockett: Shropshire Hills National Landscape Partnership: Shropshire Hills Landscape Trust
shropshirehills-nl@shropshire.gov.uk - Jake Rayson, Biodiversity Assistant, Ceredigion Local Nature Partnership: Everything you wanted to know about setting up a grasslands group but were afraid to ask (external link)
Jake.Rayson@ceredigion.gov.uk - Claire Parton, Head of Projects, Plantlife: An Overview of Plantlife’s Grassland Work
Claire.Parton@plantlife.org.uk - Rory Johnson, Co-Director and Meadows Adviser, Herefordshire Meadows: From Facilitation Fund to Fully Registered Charity: the why and how?
rory@herefordshiremeadows.org.uk - Isabel Macho, Biodiversity Officer, Carmarthenshire County Council: Camarthenshire Meadows Group
IMacho@carmarthenshire.gov.uk - Emma Rothero, Floodplain Meadows Partnership Manager: Floodplain Meadows Partnership
emma.rothero@open.ac.uk - Josh Styles, botanical specialist: Recreating Wildflower Meadows in Liverpool
josh@britishbotany.co.uk - Rachel Richards, B-Lines Officer: B-Lines connected flower-rich habitats for pollinators and other wildlife
rachel.richards@buglife.org.uk
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Telephone
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