A Landscape for Everyone – project

There are many benefits for people in getting closer to nature, and the North Pennines National Landscape team is committed to increasing and improving access to the landscape for everyone, supporting wellbeing and helping people to care for nature. Between 2021 and 2024, our project A Landscape for Everyone, looked in more detail at how we can help more people get closer to nature and the landscape here in the North Pennines. This project was supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Throughout the project we worked together with groups and individuals from across the North Pennines as well as with communities in urban areas. We were able to discover more about what nature means to people and how we can best support access for all to this landscape. As a group we created a set of principles that bring together the knowledge and experience of our team and our co-researchers. These principles now form part of our planning and are informing our work on the Access and Engagement plan, part of the overall management plan for the National Landscape.

You can read more about A Landscape for Everyone and what we learnt, in two reports:
Beyond the Familiar – Final report of the NLHF funded project

Looking Back, Dreaming Forward – Report from the Action Research Group.
The co-researchers recorded an audio version of this report that you can listen to here.