The Annual Conference is intended to provide people with an opportunity to find out about some of the recent and upcoming work of the National Landscape staff team and to discuss matters relating to the future well-being of our natural and cultural heritage.

This year’s conference, in Middleton-in-Teesdale is being held on Wednesday 25 June, 9.30am to 4.30pm.

The theme this year is nature friendly farming. You’ll hear from people who are doing this vital work, including Paddy Deady, from the Duddon Valley who is involved in a Landscape Recovery scheme alongside his running of a farm, and seasoned nature-friendly dairy farmer James Robinson, from near Kendal. You’ll also hear about our Farming in Protected Landscapes programme (which is open for grant submissions again) and about the National Landscape team’s Landscape Connections programme, that would enable us to provide better and more streamlined support to the farming community.

In the afternoon, we’ll be looking at some examples of nature friendly farming in the field, on one of five short tours; you can select your field trip when you book your place at the event.

Back at the venue, and after a panel discussion (and an opportunity for questions from the floor), we’ll round-off the event by announcing this year’s winner of the ‘Pendlebury Award’ (in memory of our first chairman, Bob Pendlebury), marking an outstanding achievement in conserving the National Landscape or helping others to explore, enjoy and understand this special place.

Booking is essential – if you would like to attend, please book online using the booking form below (including field trip preference and dietary requirements).

Please note that each person will need to book one place as well as one choice of field trip.

Both conference and field trip capacity are limited. If a field trip is full please choose another option.

 Annual Conference 2025 booking link

Image © – Martin Rogers