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Dales A newspaper for the residents of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Summer 2021 NATIONAL PARK ‘OPEN FOR BUSINESS’ As Government Covid restrictions continue to ease, and social distancing to businesses and organisations across the Yorkshire Dales help keep visitors and are finally declaring themselves ‘open for business’. communities safe. Through the summer we’ll continue Visitors are returning in numbers, accompanied by to do our best to influence improving weather, and enjoying all that the National Park behaviour on the ground, has to offer for their physical and mental well-being, as helping to create an well as making a valuable contribution to the local enjoyable experience for economy. all, with advice on how to The Yorkshire Dales has, over the last year, seen a appreciate and enjoy the dramatically different demographic of first-time visitors. countryside safely.” Family day out: enjoying the bridleways around Clapham and Austwick in Younger and more diverse groups have taken the the southern part of the National Park The National Park Authority had to find different and opportunity to visit the National Park to clear their innovative ways to deliver its services when the country heads and get some long overdue fresh air. figure is planned to increase annually to 2,500 students first went into lockdown in March 2020. We take a look once the current coronavirus restrictions are lifted. Chief Executive David Butterworth said: “There has been at how we performed over the last fifteen months on the an effort stretching back 20 years to try and broaden the centre pages. We would like to hear how well you think And our longer term focus remains on tackling the visitor base of the National Park, and what has happened our services have been delivered - we have included a climate emergency, assisting in nature recovery, and in the past year has been unprecedented. survey on page 7, which you can also complete online. ensuring the National Park is accessible to all. “The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend and So, while we look forward to something of a return to capture the hearts and minds of the people who have normality, we know there’s much to do over the coming The work of the National Park Authority is experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure months. MOUSE guided by the Yorkshire Dales National Park they keep coming back, while at the same time continuing Management Plan - the single most important We will be working with farmers to administer the to offer a wonderful experience for our loyal visitors. statutory document for the National Park. Government’s new grant scheme - Farming in Protected The Plan sets out the aspirations and objectives for “We have continued to see our online audience grow Landscapes - read more about this on page 3. the many organisations that operate here. with more people than ever engaging with us on social We are looking to expand our programme of school media. And, like many local businesses and organisations, For more information and to follow progress visits in 2021. There would normally be around 1,500 we have taken the opportunity to amplify key messages in achieving the Plan’s objectives, visit school pupils visiting the National Park each year, and this coming from Government on handwashing, face masks www.yorkshiredalesmanagementplan.org.uk ‘Generation Green’ creates new upskilling opportunities for young people The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority is 10 English National Parks as well as The Outward Bound and climate change. Those taking part also have the chance connecting young people with nature while they learn Trust, Scouts, Girlguiding, and Field Studies Council. to join free residentials at YHAs across the National Park. new skills, with potential to launch them into a fulfilling The 16-month Generation Green project - funded though Alongside these opportunities, we have recently career in the ‘green economy’. Defra’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund - is creating jobs, recruited two new youth representatives to sit on the While the new project is focussing on those who are volunteering and training opportunities, offering outdoor National Park Management Plan Steering Group and have traditionally less likely - due to social, economic and and online learning experiences, and connection with the a say in the National Park’s future. cultural factors - to engage with nature conservation, environment. It aims to connect more than 100,000 there are also opportunities for young people living in the young people in the UK to nature through individual For more information, please contact us on National Park. projects delivered nationally by the coalition members. MOUSE [email protected] or visit Generation Green is an Access Unlimited coalition In the Yorkshire Dales we will deliver 250 ‘youth action’ www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ project, led by YHA (England & Wales) and involving all opportunities for young people aged 14 to 30, plus, as generation-green or part of the initiative, Up Skill, Down Dale is looking to www.yha.org.uk/generationgreen recruit 10 skilled youth volunteers to become ‘green leaders’. The programme is offering a suite of supported training opportunities across the ranger, conservation and engagement teams, from walling, bird ringing and bee In this edition: surveys to helping deliver sessions to primary and secondary pupils. These volunteering roles will support a New grants programme route to employment in the green economy. opens for farmers p3 The Generation Green project will also fund a wide range of free day sessions for schools, individuals and groups, How the Authority is performing p4&5 with 500 young people invited to take part in the Dales. Nature recovery work 'accelerating' p6 Nature Discoverer days for 7 to 14-year-olds will include outdoor survival and navigation skills, while 14 to 18-year-olds Our services: your views p7 can join Nature Explorer sessions, choosing from Generation Green will train young people in new skills suitable for a activities such as citizen science, woodland survival skills Commoning in the Dales p8 role in the green economy Housing strategy remains high on the agenda, and, at the LOCAL PLAN SHAPES UP Authority Meeting in June, Members will be making some crucial decisions about how much housing the Authority There’s a word for that… By Rosie Corner, Local Plan Officer should plan for, where it should be built, and how we can Do you know a cake stool from a cratch, a smout-hole Preparation of the new Local Plan for the ensure that the landscape and heritage of the National from a stoup? Park is protected when this happens. extended Yorkshire Dales National Park is In Your Words - a University of Leeds project, funded by continuing apace. As always, sustainability underlies every part of the Local the National Lottery Heritage Fund - is updating the Consultation No.3 - Exploring our options: Building Plan process and officers are taking a long term view, most comprehensive survey of English dialects ever new homes at the beginning of the year generated a ensuring that the work done today benefits National Park undertaken, and is inviting people right across the healthy response and 89 sites were submitted as communities into the future. country to get involved and share their own words. potential locations for development. Officers are sifting We are looking closely at how other National Parks Researchers are looking for descendants of those who through these sites and will be creating a shortlist for are managing complex issues such as second home took part in the original Survey of English Dialects, which housing allocations later this year. ownership, affordable housing, and making space for ran from 1946-1978, or with connections to the Institute nature in the built environment, learning from best of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, which was in operation practice whilst ensuring that our approach is always fully between 1963 and 1983. tailored to the unique setting of the Yorkshire Dales The project aims to encourage people to uncover their own National Park. dialect inheritance and cultural heritage, and to share their Our next Exploring our options consultation will ask language and stories for the benefit of future generations. whether the Local Plan’s local occupancy policy remains The Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes is one of five fit for purpose and how our policies should seek to partner museums working alongside the university. manage the National Park’s many iconic field barns. Villages across the Yorkshire Dales and just beyond the To read more about the Local Plan, visit boundary were involved in the original survey, including www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ Muker, Askrigg, Dent, Horton-in-Ribblesdale, MOUSE Grassington, Gargrave, Burton-in-Lonsdale and Soulby. New housing under construction local-plan-2023-40 in West Witton Three of the original fieldworkers who travelled the country in the 1950s have already been tracked down. These pioneers painstakingly recorded dialect variations, initially in handwritten notebooks, later with cumbersome reel- to-reel audio recorders that were sometimes hooked up to car batteries because of a lack of mains electricity. Others to come forward include those who remember Werner Kissling, the famous ethnographic photographer who worked for the project in the Yorkshire Dales during the 1960s, capturing everything from sheep washing and wallops (a variant of skittles), to luck stones and Bartle burning. Please call now for competitive prices The contents of the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture will be shared online and the project will run events and 07969 508829 engagement programmes, as well as carrying out cutting- edge dialect research and training a new generation of 07891 523476 community fieldworkers. Follow the project and find out how to take part edenscaffoldingltd.co.uk MOUSE via Facebook @DialectHeritage or by contacting Engagement Officer Poppy Oldham on Wallop Nine Pins (LAVC/PHO/P1740) by Werner Kissling.