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Our Executive Director, Mark Walton, calls for a radical rethink of how we manage land in this month's New Start magazine. We are looking forward to holding a joint event with New Start to invite others to look in more detail at the issues of community rights and land. It will be held on the 19th September at the fabulous MERCi in Manchester. More details will follow - but you can email us to register your interest.
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English local authorities own 60,000 hectares of woodland. Our new report for Forest Research outlines how they involve communities and social enterprises in woodland management. We found a wide variety of different approaches, but also a widespread lack of information about how our local woodlands are being managed.
If you are a local authority officer responsible for woodlands, we're holding a free event on 17th July. There's more information here.
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We're excited to be part of the new Woodland Social Enterprise Network. If you're a social or community enterprise involved in woodlands, you can find out more by checking out the Woodlands and Forests discussion on the Fiery Spirits network.
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On the subject of waterways, we see the introduction of the "catchment-based approach" as a great opportunity to pilot some commons-based approaches to the governance of rivers. If you have no idea what that means but want to find out... have a look at Kate's blog post here.
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