Working with communities

If you, your group or community has an idea or even a problem connected to the local environment in the Stour Valley why not contact us to see if we can help?  The Stour Valley is a fantastic place to live and work. The efforts of volunteer groups and communities within the valley continue to make a huge difference to the local environment. 

The Project has a long history of working with local communities including making environmental improvements, producing interpretative and educational material and listening to what people want through community planning events.

We also help people celebrate the special area that they live in by promoting local distinctiveness. We organise a guided walks and events programme and assist communities to run their own walks and events.

Community projects often require finance to make them happen. The Project can assist local communities to apply for appropriate grants to undertake work that benefits the local environment.

We have recently been involved in the following projects:

• Supporting local residents to create and manage community woodlands at Stoke by Nayland and Clare, with the Greenlight Trust
• A Tree Dressing event in Stoke by Nayland.
• Advising Great Cornard Parish Council about grant funding to extend their Country Park, and ideas for future community projects in and around the park.
• Helping the Friends of Hornestreet Field in Langham secure a £6000 British Trust for Conservation Volunteers “People's Places” award.
• Helping villages celebrate 'Local Distinctiveness' through attractive plaques placed on bridges naming rivers and parishes.
• Encouraging people to explore their local countryside by running a series of guided walks throughout the valley.
• Helping villagers in Nayland to construct an easy access path to the riverside.

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