11 Oct 2017

Please see this selection of case studies from the current Facilitation Funded Groups. Since the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund started in 2015 there have been two national rounds plus a special round focussed on the Northern area of England impacted by the Winter storms of 2015/2016. Now, sixty-one groups with over 1400 farmer/land manager members […]

12 Sep 2017

During the last week of August, Stockholm hosted World Water Week, where leading experts and decision-makers came to exchange ideas, experiences, encourage innovative thinking and solution building to address urgent, global water challenges such as this year’s topic “Water and waste: Reduce and Reuse”. This year’s theme, illustrated the importance of water in the circular economy […]

12 Jul 2017

Creating a pioneering model of urban river stewardship in Sheffield Helen Batt, Environment Agency 30 June 2017 After the floods in 2007 in Sheffield the Environment Agency undertook a comprehensive programme of works to clear the River Don of tree growth, vegetation and debris. Both eyewitness accounts and subsequent modelling demonstrated the capacity of the channel […]