This year Blaxhall Community Festival’s theme is British birds – a chance to appreciate and. Over the weekend St Peter’s church will be filled with splendid flower arrangements inspired by our feathered friends, accompanied by music, readings and poetry to set hearts aflutter. On the bill (!) are performances by Charlie Haylock, the Strumming Birds, […]

Passionate groups have come to together to help save one of UK’s most important ecological sites where rising temperatures and pollution levels are threatening the habitats of wildlife. Representatives from conservation, farming and other industries have been taking action individually to try and improve the health of the River Deben for some time, but now […]

Rendlesham Revealed, the Suffolk community archaeology project which uncovered a 1,400 year-old royal settlement of the East Anglian Kings in the Deben Valley, is being celebrated at a free event on 16 May at the Corn Exchange in Ipswich. The event is open to the public from 11am to 3pm, where excavated Anglo-Saxon objects and […]

Nominations have opened for the annual award that recognises the amazing contributions of individuals, groups, and organisations in the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape. The David Wood National Landscape Award celebrates the hard work and outstanding contributions by people to make the area an even better place for wildlife, communities, and visitors alike.  The Suffolk & […]

More than £40,000 in environmental grants is available to support community projects across the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape. Individuals as well as organisations such as schools, businesses and community groups are encouraged to apply for funding available across the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape. The Suffolk & Essex […]

Nature recovery is a key part of our ongoing work to conserve and enhance the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape. Our Nature Network Officer, Alex Moore da Luz, provides a round-up from all of our nature recovery projects and volunteer work parties for March 2024. Shotley Ringed Plover Project – Shotley Gate A […]

It is a busy time in the development of the Essex Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS), with public consultation set to take place this summer. Made mandatory by the Environment Act 2021, Local Nature Recovery Strategies are a new tool aimed at delivering greater collaboration and clearly defined priorities and actions, to recover nature and […]

More than 100 planners, local authority representatives, and members of the public gathered at The Hold in Ipswich, and online, last week to discuss a number of contemporary planning topics. Nationally recognised guest speakers from Suffolk County Council, Natural England and Darkscape Consultancy covered a range of issues impacting upon the planning process and National […]

Work is continuing in Woodbridge to support swifts, a priority species in the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape, thanks to the fantastic efforts of the Woodbridge Swifts group. Work started in 2016 to record and preserve Woodbridge’s swift population and to raise awareness of the plight of swifts in the UK. Over […]

An annual grants scheme has reopened for funding with over £20,000 available to support community projects in East Suffolk. The Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape Amenity and Accessibility Fund was set up with construction of a Dry Fuel Store at Sizewell B power station in 2012. Over the past 12 years the […]

This week, the National Landscape team worked with Suffolk Refugee Support to bring a group of Ukrainian women to Dunwich Heath National Trust. The group caught the train from Ipswich to Darsham and then the Connecting Communities bus service to Dunwich where they walked the Sandlings Walk path to the famous Coastguard Cottages.   The […]