In this episode of All Nature, from the Carbon Copy Podcast, we hear from two community organisations selected as part of the Nature Neighbourhoods programme. In Edinburgh, we meet the founders and participants in Granton Community Gardeners, a charity helping to improve access to fresh food and green space, which attracts people from a huge range of backgrounds, ages and nationalities. In Leeds we discover the Lincoln Greeners group, a weekly gardening group run by community arts organisation Mawfa Theatre. We learn how growing together is helping to overcome social isolation and is helping wellbeing for both volunteers and participants. We also speak to Nature Neighbourhoods Programme Manager Rory Crawford, of the National Trust, to understand more about how the initiative came to be, and the aims and aspirations for the three major nature organisations that lead the programme: National Trust, RSPB and WWF-UK.

Listen to learn:

• Why nature conservation doesn’t need to be the primary focus for urban gardening and growing projects to be beneficial.
• How the Nature Neighbourhoods programme is empowering and supporting community organisations to keep doing what they do best at a local level.
• What keeps participants and volunteers coming back to these inspiring projects every week.
• How local and grassroots projects can still have a massive impact.

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Show Notes

• Read more about Granton Community Gardeners on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/granton-community-gardeners
• Read more about Mafwa Theatre’s Lincoln Greeners group on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/mafwa-theatre-lincoln-greeners
• Learn about another of the Nature Neighbourhoods programme projects – Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve – in a previous episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/root24-glasgow
• Listen to Bigger Than All Of Us, from the Carbon Copy Podcast series 3, where we learned about the People’s Plan for Nature: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/bigger-than-all-of-us
• Learn about the Nature Neighbourhoods Programme: https://peoplesplanfornature.org/nature-neighbourhoods
• Learn more about growing food locally, on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/community/produce-local-food
• Discover more stories relating to nature, on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives?search_term=&filter-local_area=&filter-action_area%5B%5D=1743

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The impacts of climate change are wide-ranging, but here in the UK, where none of us lives more than 70 miles from the sea, bigger winter storms, heavy rain and increased wave power create serious coastal flooding risks for huge numbers of people. In the North East of England, an innovative partnership of organisations, led by South Tyneside Council, is working on a programme of work exploring natural solutions to reducing this flood risk. In this episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast, we meet Karen Daglish, Delivery Manager at the Stronger Shores programme, to learn more about this inspiring, collaborative initiative. We also meet Judy Power, Project Manager at Tees Rivers Trust, one of the partner organisations working with the programme, and learn about the incredible, painstaking work they’re doing grow and protect seagrass and wild oysters in the Tees Estuary.

Listen to learn about:

• The long-term goals and ambition of the Stronger Shores programme.
• The amazing potential of wild oysters to filter water and sequester carbon.
• The reason that seagrass is such an important species – and why it is under threat.
• How engagement activities across the North East are helping more people locally to appreciate and understand the natural species on their shores.

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Show Notes

• More information about Stronger Shores: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/stronger-shores
• More projects on Carbon Copy relating to protecting coastal environments: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives?cst&search_term=coastal&filter-local_area
• Learn more about taking action for seagrass: https://carboncopy.eco/community/restore-seagrass
• Learn more about the Environment Agency’s coastal protection research: https://engageenvironmentagency.uk.engagementhq.com/innovation-programme
• Read about Tees Rivers Trust: https://www.teesriverstrust.org/
• Read about the Wild Oysters project: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/wild-oysters
• Learn about the Tall Ships Festival: https://www.tallshipshartlepool2023.co.uk/
• Listen to the Carbon Copy Podcast – Lines In The Sand, to learn more about the impacts of coastal erosion: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/lines-in-the-sand

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In this, the first episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast’s latest series, All Nature, we meet Jan Stannard and Dan Hill, of charity Heal Rewilding, at their first site on the outskirts of Frome in Somerset. We reveal the worrying state of nature in the UK, and how Jan and her colleagues felt compelled to address this. We discover the huge ambition of Heal Rewilding to create nature rich environments in every county of England, and we hear about the amazing network of different people and organisations working to renew and restore nature across the UK.

"...the only way for nature to recover is for it to have more room, more space dedicated to it. It can't just be the edges of farmland, but dedicated spaces that are new are fundamental to nature's recovery. What we have to remember is England, out of 240 countries and territories in the world, England is in 234th place where one is best. So the state of nature in England is absolutely on the floor. This can't happen soon enough." - Jan Stannard, Heal Co-Founder

Listen to Heal The Wild now, to:

• Find out what rewilding is, and why it is important.
• Hear about the exciting species that are already present on site at Heal Somerset, after just the first 18 months.
• Learn more about how to get involved with nature restoration.
• Take the chance to help Heal Rewilding to find new sites for their ambitious programme!

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Show Notes

• Read Heal Rewilding’s story on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/heal-rewilding
• Support Heal Rewilding by sponsoring a square of land: https://www.healrewilding.org.uk/heal3x3
• Find out more about rewilding: https://carboncopy.eco/community/rewild-land
• Read the State of Nature report: https://stateofnature.org.uk/
• Discover more rewilding organisations via Rewilding Britain: https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/
• Read about the Knepp Estate: https://knepp.co.uk/
• Read about the Beaver Trust: https://beavertrust.org/
• Read about The Beaver Project: https://www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/what-we-do/our-conservation-work/on-land/beavers/cornwall-beaver-project
• Read about The Grange Project: https://www.grangeproject.co.uk/
• Read more about the New To Nature programme from Groundwork: https://www.groundwork.org.uk/new-to-nature-legacy/
• Read about Wild Ken Hill: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/wild-ken-hill

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