National Meadow Day: Poundbury Wildflower Meadows

It’s National Meadows Day today and People Need Nature is celebrating with news of a project on which we working, in partnership with the Duchy of Cornwall, at their Poundbury development in Dorset. Poundbury Great Field is a large open space on the boundary where the new development at Poundbury meets the existing edge of […]

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One Week left to support our Green Social Prescribing Project Crowdfunder

We’ve been fundraising for a new project following on from our Poundbury Nature Project. This new project will use nature-based activities to support local residents struggling with their mental health We’ve managed over £5400 so far via the Save Our Wild Isles Aviva Community Fund Crowdfunder. You can read about the project by following this […]

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Update and Request

Some of you will have noticed this website has been very quiet for a while. The reason for this is that I have been limited in my capacity to write anything, due to a neurological problem called Chronic Vestibular Migraine, also know as Migrainous Vertigo or Migraine Associated Vertigo. I’ve actually had it for coming […]

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Poetry for the Climate: COP26

Poet Louisa Adjoa Parker running a climate poetry workshop at Damers First School ©Damers School I’ve mentioned before about People Need Nature’s work with The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network. We’ve been working together for five years now, getting poets to write challenges that inspire young poets (across the world) to write about different aspects […]

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People Need Nature/Young Poets Network Fourth Poetry Challenge. Winners and highly commended poems in “Poems to solve the Climate Crisis.”

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 4th People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry challenge, set by poet Louisa Adjoa-Parker. Louisa asked young poets across the world to write about nature and the climate. This is particularly relevant as we head towards the make or break global climate conference COP26, taking place in […]

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National Meadows Day 2021: A Tale of Two Meadows

Wildflower Meadows have their day in the sun today, on National Meadows Day. National Meadows Day is a new thing, just a few years old, but it seems to have captured the public’s imagination and rightly so. Because Wildflower Meadows encapsulate a beautiful coming together, of people and nature, creating something sublime, which everyone can […]

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New People Need Nature/Young Poets Network Poetry Competition Launched

I’m delighted to say that we have launched our fourth People Need Nature/Young Poets Network poetry competition. It’s called Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis and the challenge has been written by West Country poet Louisa Adjoa-Parker. We’re challenging young poets to respond to the climate crisis and especially in the run up to the […]

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