Triple Axe project
Start Date: 01/01/2021 End Date: 31/03/2026
The aim of the Triple Axe catchment project is to align existing and define new activity in the Axe catchment required to address key issues impacting the catchment’s ability to function more naturally (through natural processes), support thriving habitats and species, be resilient and provide a range of public goods and services to Axe communities and wider society.
Somerset Nature Connections
Start Date: 01/01/2020 End Date: 31/10/2023
Somerset Nature Connections is a partnership project between Somerset Wildlife Trust and the three Somerset Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The project aims to help individuals and groups to connect with nature to benefit their physical and mental health, to reduce some of the barriers which prevent people from accessing natural spaces, and develop a network of skilled volunteers who can support communities for the longer term.
Farming & Woodland Group
Start Date: 01/06/2018 End Date: 01/06/2021
Following a successful partnership bid to Natural England, a new training and collaboration network has been set up for farmers and other land managers within the Blackdown Hills National Landscape. This is known as the Blackdown Hills Farming and Woodland Group.
ELMS Tests and Trials
Start Date: 09/01/2019 End Date: 31/03/2021
Blackdown Hills National Landscape was one of 12 National Landscapes (formerly Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) in England that took part a National Landscape Association programme to provide information to help Defra in the design of the new Environmental Land Management System.
Discovering Dunkeswell Abbey
Start Date: 12/04/2019 End Date: 30/04/2020
The purpose of the Discovering Dunkeswell Abbey project was to raise the profile of Dunkeswell Abbey which has a rich cultural and historic interest. The project helped the local community connect with and understand the site through an archaeology programme, multi-generational engagement activities and on-site interpretation material.
Corry and Coly Natural Flood Management
Start Date: 01/12/2018 End Date: 01/03/2020
Working in partnership with the Environment Agency, Devon County Council's Flood and Coastal Risk Team, East Devon AONB Partnership, Westcountry Rivers Trust and FWAG South West, a two-year project is underway to tackle flooding and water quality in these two sub-catchments.
Field boundaries & linear landscape features
Start Date: 01/04/2018 End Date: 31/03/2019
This project, funded by Historic England, shines a spotlight on the important field boundaries and linear landscape features of the Blackdown Hills AONB and highlights the important role they play in the landscape, their heritage value and the benefits that they provide to people.
Culm Community Crayfish project
Start Date: 31/01/2018 End Date: 31/01/2019
The white-clawed crayfish – the UK's only native crayfish – is under threat. The River Culm, in the Blackdown Hills AONB, is one of only two sites in Devon where the endangered, white-clawed crayfish remains. In January 2018, we embarked on the Culm Community Crayfish project with a view to helping communities around the River Culm learn about, survey and look after this endangered species.
Catchment Communities Conference
Start Date: 19/10/2018 End Date: 19/10/2018
The Catchment Communities Conference, on Friday 19 October 2018, brought together community representatives, land owners and managers, and practitioners from the East Devon Catchment Partnership with a view to working together for the future health of the river catchments of the Axe (including Yarty), Otter, Culm and Clyst.
Blackdown Hills Natural Futures
Start Date: 09/11/2017 End Date: 18/11/2017
Blackdown Hills Natural Futures project enabled us to find out more about the natural heritage of the Blackdown Hills, to raise awareness of the area’s natural heritage and to help local communities to build the skills and the confidence to set up their own nature projects.
Metal Makers
Start Date: 01/09/2014 End Date: 01/06/2015
For centuries, the sounds, sweat and smoke of iron-working were part of life in the Blackdown Hills. The rich iron-working past of The Blackdown Hills was rooted in this area’s geology and, in turn, the iron-working industry has left its mark on the landscape. The aim of the Metal Makers project was to bring to life and increase understanding of the ancient iron-working heritage of the Blackdown Hills.