We’re having a practical conservation work party on Wednesday 29th November 2017. The main task will be coppicing along the edges of Upper Torver Beck. Meet at 10 am at Park Ground, Torver, please car share if you can as parking is limited. Make sure you wear suitable outdoor clothing, sturdy boots or wellies and bring your lunch and a drink if you’re planning to stay all day. Tools and gloves provided. The aim is to finish no later than…
Best wishes and a big THANK YOU to Charlotte who is moving to pastures new in southern England to work in the education sector and to be closer to family. Charlotte was instrumental in developing the HLF bid and establishing the project and will be much missed. More about her replacement in the near future.
Over twenty people joined the Conserving Coniston & Crake Bat Walk on Friday 1st September. Led by the very informative John Martin, local ecologist and bat enthusiast, the group saw a variety of bats. Pipistrelles, both common and soprano, were spotted emerging from their roosts at the Water Park Lakeland Adventure Centre and gave us the chance to get to grips with a bat detector. Daubenton’s bats put on a good show over a moonlit Coniston lake. Many thanks to…
Conserving Coniston & Crake, together with the National Trust, are holding a day of fun activities for all the family on the shores of Coniston Water on Tuesday 15th August…
Conserving Coniston & Crake – Healthy water for wildlife and communities We are excited to announce that we have been awarded a grant of £763,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for Conserving Coniston & Crake. Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players, the project will improve the catchment’s water quality, habitats and biodiversity through conservation and community engagement. Coniston Water and the Crake Valley is enjoyed by many: its spectacular landscape is a mosaic of different habitats, and home…
Over the course of 2016, our plans for Conserving Coniston & Crake have been reviewed and developed, culminating in the submission of a second round application to the Heritage Lottery Fund in early November. Development work has included a programme of monitoring and surveying around the catchment, looking at water quality, habitat and fish numbers. The feasibility of a number of proposed activities has been assessed. Our audience development consultants, Wingspan Consulting, have been busy researching who might want to…
Conserving Coniston & Crake will be making their final appearance of the summer at Lowick Annual Show, this Saturday, the 3rd September. As with our previous appearances at the Lakeland and Coniston Country Fairs, we will have some tiny monsters of the Crake to look at – if you’re brave enough! – along with some other games and lots of information about the project. Please come and say hello if you’re at the show, it would be great to talk…
Come and say hello to us at the Lakeland Country Fair at Torver on Sunday 21st August. We would welcome visitors to our stall, where you can find out more about the project, have a look at some mini beasties from the local beck, and test your phosphate knowledge with our detergents game! And of course while you’re there you can enjoy the rest of what the show has to offer – see their website for more details…
Conserving Coniston & Crake will be at the Coniston Country Fair on Sunday 24th July. Come along to say hello and find out more about the project, and see what lies beneath the surface of our freshwaters!
The Coniston & Crake Catchment Partnership is pleased to announce that it has received support from Nurture Lakeland for Conserving Coniston & Crake, through their small grants fund. This support from Nurture Lakeland is invaluable, as it both contributes towards the development of the project, and also reinforces the need for Conserving Coniston & Crake and what it aims to achieve. Nurture Lakeland said that they “were delighted to be able to support the work of the Coniston and Crake Partnership…