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…
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…
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,…
I met artist Sarah Gillespie at last year’s New Networks for Nature conference in Bath. Sarah uses the Mezzotint method, to create exquisite artwork of British Moths and other species. Mezzotint is a method of engraving, creating an image on…
As a Charity, People Need Nature is required by law to produce an audited set of accounts and an annual report stating what we have been doing, during the previous financial year, to meet our charitable objectives. I am pleased…
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…
We all know that fruit and veg in the diet is good for our health but its worrying to learn that the fruits and vegetables that we eat today may not deliver as many micronutrients as they once did. Research…
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…
Having just published her e-book of poems, ‘A Natural Selection: 40 illustrated nature poems for a world in transition’, Ana Jenkin discusses protest poetry and how it can be used to help Nature and our immediate environment. Poetry and Protest…
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…
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…