Annual Forum 2022

The 17th North Pennines AONB Partnership Annual Forum was held online on Thursday 1 December 2022.

The Annual Forum offers an opportunity for people to find out about some of the recent and upcoming work of the AONB Partnership staff team and matters relating to nature recovery and engaging people with nature and heritage.

There were presentations on some of our current work, including the Heart of the Pennines Forest and The Great North Bog, our peatland programme, projects working on landscape-scale nature recovery, public engagement, and our historic environment, the North Pennines Stargazing Festival, our Farming in Protected Landscapes programme, and some of our interpretation and education work connecting children and young people with the natural world around them.

Following the success of last year’s panel discussion, we gathered a panel to discuss being more inclusive. The panel comprised Scarlet Hall (Community Engagement Officer on the North Pennines AONB Partnership’s A Landscape For Everyone project); Beth Lightburn (North Pennines AONB Partnership’s Engagement and Interpretation trainee on the Tees-Swale: Naturally Connected project); Chris Woodley-Stewart (Director of the North Pennines AONB Partnership); and Dr Geeta Ludhra (lecturer in Education at Brunel University, a Chilterns Conservation Board Member for the Chilterns AONB, and founder of Dadima’s CIC which was set up to encourage people from Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities to access, engage in, and enjoy our green spaces).

A recording of the Annual Forum is available below.

Watch the videos for the Green PLACE Annual Forum and Sustainablity quest with William Howard School.

View the slides from the Annual Forum 2022 here.