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Suffolk Refugee Support group visit to Flatford
For National Inclusion Week, the Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty team took a small group of women from Suffolk Refugee Support to Flatford, as part of our ongoing Landscapes for All initiatives. The group of women had an amazing day trying to identify everything in this special landscape, from flora and fauna,…
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Landscape and life!
Suffolk County Council’s Workforce Development Team recently spent a day helping the Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) improve Church Common at Snape as a key feature and biodiversity hotspot in this Protected Landscape. Workforce Development Team members joined Neil Lister, AONB Countryside Projects Officer, and colleague Greg Chester-Parsons, AONB New to…
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The Great British Beach Clean 2023 comes to an end
The 2023 Great British Beach Clean 2023 is now complete! The Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty team organised three surveys/cleans – two for registered volunteers at Kessingland and Havergate Island, and a corporate survey/clean at Bawdsey Point for UK Power Networks and Royal Society of Chemistry members. Across the three events, 48…
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Nature and communities set to benefit from £33,000 funding boost
A host of exciting projects in Suffolk have received significant funding to engage local communities of all ages with nature to improve health, access, and connection to their surroundings. The annual Sustainable Development Fund awards grants up to £5,000 for community projects that will help to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the Coast…
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Free beach clean event at Kessingland
Every September thousands of people across the UK head to the coast to take part in the Great British Beach Clean, a week-long citizen science event, where hundreds of beach cleans take place up and down the UK. Our second Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Beach Clean event is taking place on…