Nature North

🌍✨ Driving Nature Recovery in the North: Join Us for the Launch of a Transformative Strategy! Nature North 📅 Date: Tuesday, 25th February 🕐 Time: 13:00 - 15:45 📍 Venue: Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Hosted by Oliver Coppard Mayor of South Yorkshire, this event will showcase opportunities to restore nature, create climate resilience, and drive economic growth. Over 50 organisations are collaborating to make the North a nature-positive region, and your presence will help make our shared vision a reality. If you wish to join us in person, please email stephh@naturenorth.org.uk  Book to join the live stream https://lnkd.in/dTeZN-ba  

Working for a regional body with a strategic plan for transport in the North, it's great to see something similar for #NatureRecovery. Nature North and their investable propositions are embedded within our strategic plan too, as transport corridors and investment can be a key enabler of local nature recovery and at the same time nature based solutions will need to play an important role in increasing the resilience of our transport systems against the effects of a changing climate. Really excited to see their regional strategy launching (see details below of how to tune in to the live stream!)... Great speakers too. #NatureBasedSolutions #TransportResilience #RegionalScale #CrossSectorCollaboration

🌿 Nature, Culture, and Place: Shaping the Future of the North 🌿 Yesterday, I had the privilege of joining the Northern Nature, Culture, and Place Forum #NNCP25 in Leeds—an inspiring gathering of leaders, practitioners, and policymakers committed to exploring how the North’s unique #natural, #cultural, and #historicalheritage can drive sustainable #regeneration and community #revitalisation. As a panellist for Making the Case: Integrating Outcomes for Nature, Culture, and Economy in Pan-Northern Place Revitalisation—alongside Mike Innerdale Sheona Southern Helen Featherstone and chaired by Angela Jones —I was honoured to share insights from Bradford Council Landscape Design and Conservation Team. Our work is grounded in: 🔹 #CoCreation in #Placemaking: We ensure communities are at the heart of #shaping their landscapes. From large-scale urban redesigns to local neighbourhood projects, co-design helps us deliver multi-benefit outcomes such as economic regeneration, improved #publichealth, #climateresilience, and #biodiversity enhancement. 🔹 #Storytelling to Inspire Action: Making the case for investing in nature and culture requires effectively communicating their value. Through videos, detailed reports, and direct conversations with decision-makers, we aim to inspire bold action. 🔹 #Collaboration is Key: #Partnerships with #communities, funders, and agencies enable us to maximise impact by pooling resources, knowledge, and #innovation. Together, we create transformative outcomes. The forum opened with powerful messages from Shanaz Gulzar Creative Director of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture who urged us to "grasp the vision" and identify opportunities to integrate natural, cultural, and historical heritage. Clare Hayward, Co-Chair of the Convention of the North. Keynotes and discussions featured contributions from: 🔸 David Renwick Vera Jones Tom Hind and Dee Grahamslaw on the value of investing in nature and culture 🔸 Tony Juniper CBE (Chair, Natural England and Duncan Wilson CBE (CEO, Historic England) on opportunities for national collaboration. 🔸 @Karezza McLarnan (Natural Landscapes Association) and Pete Massey Arts Council England on unlocking cross-sector funding to integrate heritage and place-making.David Haley Colm Bowe Sarie Mairs Slee Swinton Estate Bruce Howard Nature North The forum reaffirmed the North's unique opportunity to lead the way in integrating nature, culture, and place-making—let’s build on this momentum and continue shaping a #resilient and thriving future for our communities. It was an absolute pleasure to connect with passionate professionals Kabeer Bostan Bobsie Robinson Veronique Jasinski Bryn Jones Adam Greatrix Hannah Saxton Liz Wild Steph Hepworth Helen Golightly Andrew Read Adele Adams Rosalind Forbes Adam Sponsor AtkinsRéalis #Placemaking #NatureRecovery #CulturalHeritage #Collaboration #Leadership #Bradford #Leeds #NorthernVision Landscape Institute

🌿 Live Stream Event: Investment in Nature Recovery for the North of England 🌿 📅 Tuesday, 25 February 2025 ⏰ 13:00 – 15:45 GMT We’re excited to invite you to the launch of the Investment in Nature Recovery for the North of England strategy, a bold step towards driving greater investment and leadership for nature’s recovery across the region. About the Event Nature North is a collaboration of more than 50 organisations, partnerships, businesses and agencies working for nature recovery across the North of England. This new strategy: ✅ Makes the case for the North to become a nature-positive region. ✅ Explains how investing in nature recovery brings economic, social, and environmental benefits. ✅ Outlines steps to secure greater investment in nature. The event will be hosted by Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority, who will be joined by prominent leaders from multiple sectors. Together, they’ll spotlight opportunities to work together to: • Restore nature. • Build climate resilience. • Drive economic growth across the North. Speakers to include: Oliver Coppard, Mayor of South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority Alan Lovell, Chair, Environment Agency Peter Young, Chair, The Broadway Initiative Helen Avery, Director, Nature Programmes, Green Finance Institute Thomas Viegas, Nature Strategy Lead, Aviva Rachael Bice, CEO, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Chair, Great North Bog Dr Saira Ali FLI, Landscape Architect and Team Leader Bradford Council Maxwell Ayamba BEM, journalist, academic and CEO/founder of the Sheffield Environmental Movement Roz Davies, CEO, The Green Estate CIC 📍 Join us online for this live stream event: https://lnkd.in/dTeZN-ba 👉 Save the Date: 25 February 2025 We look forward to welcoming you. #NatureRecovery #NaturePositive #ClimateAction #NorthOfEngland #Sustainability #InvestmentInNature National Trust Environment Agency Natural England National Landscapes Association The National Lottery Heritage Fund Esmée Fairbairn Foundation National Parks UK Team RSPB The Woodland Trust

The Northern Nature, Culture and Place Forum in Leeds showcased how the natural assets and cultural richness of the North of England can be enhanced together. 🌿 How can we better leverage the natural heritage of Northern England to support a green recovery? Sarie Mairs Slee, Strategic Lead of the Northern Place and Culture Partnership, and Colm Bowe, Development Manager at Nature North, shared how Nature North’s Strategy for Investment in Nature for the North, will protect and enhance the North of England’s natural heritage; creating investable propositions and building partnerships. Also panel discussions championing the importance of taking bold leadership to maximise potential outcomes, and allowing time and flexibility when planning and funding projects. It was great to hear about the collaborative work already happening including in Bradford, Manchester, Lancaster, North York Moors National Park and Westmorland and Furness Council Ecosystems Knowledge Network The National Lottery Heritage Fund Greater Manchester Combined Authority Dee Grahamslaw Dr Saira Ali FLI Helen Featherstone Angela Jones Bruce Howard Clare Hayward AtkinsRéalis Mike Innerdale David Renwick Natural England National Trust Historic England

🎦 UPCOMING WEBINAR 🎦 🌳 🐝 Natural Capital & Biodiversity Net Gain 🐝 🌳 📅 Thurs 6th February 2025 📅 ⏲️ 13:00 - 14:00 ⏲️ We invite you to an online event where we will discuss the role of investment into natural capital and biodiversity net gain (BNG) as tools to support nature recovery. Very excited to be joined by Emily Diamand, who will be chairing the session and also sharing some information on her work as the Advocacy Coordinator for Nature North. Our speakers will be revealed over the next week. Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/eQGzYDkN #NatureRestoration #BNG #NaturalCapital #RouteToNetZero

📢 Welcoming Our Exhibitors to the Northern Nature Culture and Place Forum! We are thrilled to showcase an incredible range of pioneering organizations and initiatives joining us on and off the stage next Tuesday at the Northern Nature Culture and Place Forum. Among these are our exhibitors—trailblazing projects and organisations already making powerful connections between nature, culture, and history in place-making across the North of England. Take advantage of our networking sessions and lunchtime breaks to meet them, learn about their inspiring work, and explore new ideas for collaboration. Meet our exhibitors: https://lnkd.in/e2DuFZRN Northern Nature, Culture and Place Forum 🗓️Tuesday 21 January 2025 📍Aspire, Leeds City Centre Book your ticket: https://lnkd.in/euM6r5nq #NNCP2024 #northern #nature #culture #heritage #place 

🎦 UPCOMING WEBINAR 🎦 🌳 🐝 Natural Capital & Biodiversity Net Gain 🐝 🌳 📅 Thurs 6th February 2025 📅 ⏲️ 13:00 - 14:00 ⏲️ We invite you to an online event where we will discuss the role of investment into natural capital and biodiversity net gain (BNG) as tools to support nature recovery. Very excited to be joined by Emily Diamand, who will be chairing the session and also sharing some information on her work as the Advocacy Coordinator for Nature North. Our speakers will be revealed over the next week. Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/eQGzYDkN #NatureRestoration #BNG #NaturalCapital #RouteToNetZero

Can you spare time to respond to this consultation by The Broadway Initiative? The UK Nature Markets Dialogue is currently consulting on what is required to establish an effective nature market governance framework in the UK. The consultation will run until 28 February 2025. The UK Nature Markets Dialogue is bringing together a coalition of experts from the finance, business, farming and environment sectors to support UK nature market development by building a consensus on nature market policy, infrastructure and governance. https://lnkd.in/e_7pJGbX

This should be a really fantastic event and builds on some significant pan-regional partnership working over a number of years. I'm really excited to be hosting one of the panel sessions during the day. Blending different aspects that make towns, cities and landscapes distinctive and special can help us all to feel that we're helping to create special places that are inclusive, fair, green, fun, healthy and engaging - benefitting everyone. Culture, the arts, heritage, nature, environment and good design - they're all natural ingredients that help make sustainable locations that attract and retain skills, investment and visitors. Pete Massey Catherine Dewar Tom Frater Helen Featherstone Mike Innerdale Colm Bowe Sarie Mairs Slee Natural England Rebecca Taylor Nature North