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Between March and June 2013 we worked for Yorkshire Peat Partnership to explore the issues around the possible creation of a strategic Peat Partnership covering the whole of the Pennine Chain from the Scottish borders to the Peak District. Valuable work is already going on to restore degraded upland peat bogs but could a strategic partnership tap into other funding, co-ordinate work and speak collectively to regional and national bodies? Our work to assess the appetite for the partnership involved 62 in depth interviews and three stakeholder workshops.
For the last week our fab team – Kate and Ellie – have been up mountains in the Lake District interviewing people for our Fix the Fells work. They have also been in Keswick speaking to people in the town, and have been sending us updates and great photos of what they’ve been up to.
This is undoubtedly our highest consultation ever! And check out the beautiful banner Ellie made for the consultation…
We thought it would be nice to include a few of the reports from Kate and Ellie:
Thursday 16th June 2011
We were heading for the top of Helvellyn this morning but it was pouring with rain, so we headed to the Moot Hall in Keswick. We enjoyed a trickled of interviewees there, but as soon as it brightened up we headed back out up to Catbells where we had a steady flow of people who all thought it was a good idea us being up there. Let’s hope the weather is better than forecast tomorrow! Best wishes, Kate
Saturday 18th June 2011
The cloud was down and the rain light though persistent, but many a hardy walker passed our little base at the entrance to Seathwaite Farm. Nearly all we stopped were happy to chat, despite either being keen to get on with their five-hour hikes or absolutely exhausted after returning from such exertions!
Our lovely colleagues Steve and Becca recently spent a week at Wicksteed Park in Northamptonshire, interviewing people about what they’d like to see going on in the park.
Here are some photos Steve took of the stall, which was designed specifically for this piece of work. We used our new stripey sun tent, a blackboard sign, an easel displaying ideas for activities, and bunting made by printing images onto fabric.
Our office is undergoing a bit of a Spring clean and tidy up, and in doing so we have been looking through some of the tools we’ve created for previous work.
We came across the giant jigsaw puzzle we created for the Great Wyre Jigsaw Project – we love it so much we’ve pinned it to our office wall! The jigsaw is made from cork and was designed to be taken out onto a stall as a tool to engage with people.
Members of the public could write their likes and dislikes on flags then stick them into it.
The Great Wyre Jigsaw Project was a consultation process that we designed and delivered for Wyre Borough Council. Our team gathered the views of 2,336 people, finding out what residents felt about living in Wyre and their ideas for improving the quality of life in the area.
It was one of the largest community consultations ever carried out in Wyre and the results were written up into six accessible reports designed by our colleagues at Countryscape.
If you’d like to find out more about our consultation or engagement work, or have a project you’d like to discuss, please email us at hello@pathwaysconsultancy.co.uk.
We are currently working on a project for the Lime and Ice project team (part of the North York Moors National Park Authority) to produce a series of short films documenting the work done by a group of volunteers.
This group of volunteers have been helping to research the landscape and archeology of an area called Yearsley Moor – covering 6,000 years of history from the bronze age to the second world war.
May has been out filming with Jeff Wood to capture this beautiful landscape and the stories that the volunteers have to tell of both the history of this place and their experiences uncovering it.
There have been a number of dawn starts, a lot of fog across the woodland and May is now a veritable mine of knowledge on English history!
We can’t wait to see and share the final films!
Whilst we update our website we will be sharing what we’re up to here – our shiny new blog. We’ve got some exciting new pieces of work coming up during the summer and some lovely pieces of recent work to share.
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