Hopefully this spooky season there aren’t actually any Greater Horseshoe Bats in your cauldron! This particular species of bat is one of the rarest, and Cornwall’s protected landscape offers key...
Melodie Manners
Welcome the Community Hub for Cornwall National Landscape.
Help us keep it that way
Cornwall’s landscape, cultural heritage and local distinctiveness directly underpins the economy. The rural economy makes a huge contribution to local communities and the business structure of Cornwall. Living in a rural protected landscape has huge benefits but it is recognised that it also holds some major challenges. There are real pockets of deprivation in Cornwall National Landscape. There are some significant opportunities to work collaboratively with communities to increase social and economic benefits.
Project Description
Representing 4,000 years of Cornish history
Project Aim
This five-year project will seek to ensure that the 38 Scheduled Monuments in the Cornwall National Landscape are better identified, supported and enjoyed by a wide range of people.
Project Description
Kerdroya is an immersive land-art experience. A physical celebration of our 60th Anniversary (2019) as well as an opportunity to celebrate one of the most important heritage and biodiversity features of the landscape - the Cornish hedge.
Project Aim
Raising the profile of the Cornish hedge. Y'gan keow y hwhelir anethow! Cornish hedges are one of our great unsung wonders!
Project Description
An exciting project which offered residents of Torpoint, Saltash and Liskeard the opportunity to join a free, varied volunteer programme at Maker Heights, Rame Head.
Project Aim
Conserving Cornish landscapes whilst gaining education, training and life skills, improving health and wellbeing and making long-lasting connections to people and places.
Project Description
An anthology of short fiction inspired by Cornwall's protected landscape.
Project Aim
Increasing access to the protected landscape, for those underserved, and connecting people with place. This project uses the arts as a mechanism to connect more people with nature.
From citizen science to habitat creation, community pollinator projects to creative writing workshops our local communities in Cornwall National Landscape are doing some amazing things to support people, place, nature and climate.
The ‘dating agency’ for wildflower meadows in Cornwall.
Effective demonstration that people’s needs can be met fully in sustainable ways that can enhance natural beauty. Local people are supported for health and wellbeing benefits.
Support the sustainable management of the protected landscape to benefit local communities e.g. allotments, agroforestry and community growing initiatives in ways that respond to, and enhance, landscape character.
Supporting local communities, via our partners and projects, with local nature recovery and building biodiversity from grass verges to nature connections.
Supporting local communities, via our partners and projects, to do more to mitigate the effects of, and build resilience to climate change. From natural flood management to proactive climate action.
In this Education Pack you will find information about bees, different types of bee and their lifecycle. You'll find curriculum based activities which incorporate the core subjects of maths and English. The pack provides key facts to increase knowledge about solitary bees and how they differ from other species of bee in Cornwall. The pack is aimed at years 1-8, Key Stage 1 - 3. This Education Pack was created as part of the Wheal Buzzy project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
In this Education Pack you will find information about bees, different types of bee and their lifecycle. You'll find curriculum based activities which incorporate the core subjects of maths and English. The pack provides key facts to increase knowledge about solitary bees and how they differ from other species of bee in Cornwall. The pack is aimed at years 1-8, Key Stage 1 - 3. This Education Pack was created as part of the Wheal Buzzy project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.