GRCF2021 - Bore Place: We Are Nature (360G-cabinetoffice-G2-GA-202211828501-21-22)

Nature-based projects often achieve outcomes for either biodiversity, education or wellbeing, rarely combining all 3 or combining with economic objectives for land. We have historically run biodiversity, education and wellbeing projects alongside our organic farm and woodland management but they are not fully integrated. Meanwhile we need to improve our wildlife/habitat data and increase practical help to deliver habitat enhancements to safeguard our 500-acre site for biodiversity. We will use this opportunity to re-set our operations, integrating people of all ages and abilities at the heart of our work for biodiversity alongside our organic estate, to achieve better outcomes for wellbeing, environmental awareness/understanding and nature. We will move us away from our model of disparate working and instead, train, equip and support an army of volunteers, Social Prescribing referrals, students/children and trainees to manage and develop our woodland, meadow, hedgerows, orchard, ponds and streams into the future. The result will be a truly connected system of informed habitat management for wider wellbeing, great environmental awareness, turning Bore Place into a training hub for the next generation of land managers and a national demonstrator of working at a landscape scale for both people and nature.