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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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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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Guest Blog: More Meadows by Dan Smith

Haymaking Chagfarm Dartmoor © Chris Chapman 2019 (1) After the last 12 months, let’s look for positives. Has the pandemic helped us develop effective ways to conserve nature and engage people with the natural world? Perhaps a growing movement of wildflower meadow-makers in Devon, using the umbrella name ‘More Meadows’ has achieved this, with a […]

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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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PNN Annual Report 2018/19

One of the things about having Charitable Status is that the law requires all charities (or rather, strictly speaking, Charitable incorporated Organisations – which is the legal structure that PNN chose when it was founded) to produce an Annual Report and accounts. Some Charities just publish their accounts and a very brief summary (or even […]

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Farmland Tax report published

Farmland Tax Breaks revealed. Today People Need Nature publishes its latest report, investigating the tax system and how it affects farmland. “Where there’s muck there’s brass: revealing the billions hidden in farmland tax shelters” lays out the many, varied, and some frankly bizarre tax breaks available to farmers and landowners.  And we argue that these […]

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