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The work of Nenescape Amanda Johnson – Scheme Manager A National Lottery Heritage funded initiative of collaborative project brought together by multiple partners, to achieve a shared vision of a healthy and resilient river Nene, where the local wildlife What is prospers alongside agricultural and recreational activities. Nenescape? The landscape's industrial, cultural and archaeological legacies are shared and valued by those living and working in the Nene Valley and opportunities to learn about and manage the heritage and the local environment are accessible and plenty. Our funders, partners and volunteer organisations ANGLING TRUST - ASSOCIATION OF NENE RIVER CLUBS - BBC CHILDREN IN NEED - BBC LOOK EAST - BBC NORTHAMPTON - BEAT ROUTE RADIO - BOROUGH COUNCIL OF WELLINGBOROUGH - BREAKING NEW GROUND LPS - THE BRECKS: FEN EDGE & RIVERS LPS - BRITAIN’S BEST SURPRISE - BUDDIES OF BECKETS PARK - CAMBRIDGESHIRE ACRE - CAMBRIDGESHIRE POLICE - CANAL & RIVERS TRUST - CANOE2 - CARLSBERG UK - CINEWORLD SIXFIELDS - DAME JOODY - DELAPRE ABBEY - DERWENTWISE LPS - DESTINATION NENE VALLEY - DIALOGUE MATTERS - EAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNCIL - ENVIRONMENT AGENCY - ESP MAGAZINE - FESTIVE ROAD - FIFTH CONTINENT LPS - FRIENDS OF CROYLAND PARK LOST ZOO GARDEN - FRIENDS OF THE GREENWAY - FRIENDS OF THE RIVER NENE - FROGLIFE - GREENSAND COUNTRY LPS - GROUNDWORK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - HIGHAM FERRERS TOWN COUNCIL - HISTORIC ENGLAND - ICARUS - IDVERDE - INLAND WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION - IRCHESTER SCOUTS - IRTHLINGBOROUGH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY - IRTHLINGBOROUGH SCOUTS - ITV ANGLIA - KINGSTHORPE COLLEGE - LANGDYKE COUNTRYSIDE TRUST - MARITIME VOLUNTEERS SERVICE - METAL - MINER2MAJOR LPS - MOMENT MAGAZINE - MUSEUM OF LEATHERCRAFT - NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND - NATURAL ENGLAND - NENE PARK TRUST - NENEQUIRER - NENE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST - NENE VALLEY CATCHMENT PARTNERSHIP - NENE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION - NENE VALLEY RAILWAY - NLIVE RADIO - NN PULSE - NORTHAMPTON BOROUGH COUNCIL - NORTHAMPTON CHRONICLE - NORTHAMPTON FILMHOUSE - NORTHAMPTON INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY - NORTHAMPTON NENE ANGLING CLUB -NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ACRE - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ARCHIVES SERVICE - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE BATTLEFIELDS SOCIETY - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE BIODIVERSITY RECORDS CENTRE - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL COUNTRY PARKS - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE GARDENS TRUST - HERITAGE FORUM - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE HIGHWAYS - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE LIBRARIES - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE LOCAL NATURE PARTNERSHIP - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS TRUST AND SCHOOLS - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE POLICE - NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ROTARY CLUBS – NORTHAMPTONSHIRE TELEGRAPH - ONE TO ONE DEVELOPMENT TRUST - OUNDLE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL - OUSE WASHES LPS - OXFORD ARCHAEOLOGY - PECT - PETERBOROUGH AND DISTRICT ANGLING ASSOCIATION - PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL - PETERBOROUGH CITY COUNCIL - PETERBOROUGH MUSIC HUB - RAILWORLD - RAUNDS TOWN COUNCIL - RIVER NENE REGIONAL PARK – RIVERS TRUST - ROCKINGHAM FOREST TRUST - ROYAL & DERNGATE - RSPB - RUSHDEN HISTORICAL TRANSPORT SOCIETY - RUSHDEN LAKES - RUSHDEN MUSEUM - RUSHDEN TOWN COUNCIL - RUTLAND MUSIC - SCREEN NORTHANTS - SERVICE SIX - STANWICK PARISH COUNCIL - THAMES FESTIVAL TRUST - THORPEGATE RIVERCARE - UNIVERSITY CENTRE PETERBOROUGH - UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON - UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM - VEOLIA - VIVACITY - VOLUNTARY IMPACT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - WATER, MILLS & MARSHES LPS - WELLINGBOROUGH AND DISTRICT NENE ANGLING CLUB - WELLINGBOROUGH MUSEUM - WILDLIFE TRUST FOR BEDFORDSHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - WILLIAM SCOTT ABBOTT TRUST • To understand and promote the identity of the Nene Valley and explore how past industries Exploring the Nene Valley: and peoples have shaped the landscape • To bring communities together, developing people, heritage and identity in a changing their skills to respond to current and future landscape pressures through the interpretation and restoration of heritage and habitats. Nenescape project area - 198km2 between Northampton and Peterborough Nenescape in numbers 12 2 core 190km twitter £2.6million funded project area followers cash from Heritage partners 802 Lottery Fund Facebook £5million 374 followers Estimated total scheme value 16 5 projects to year 140 be delivered Scheme 115 supporting newsletter 415 unique visitors to partners recipients Nenescape website last month How has Nenescape been able to improve environmental quality at the same time as delivering wider social and economic benefits? • Secure the Future • Explore the Now • Listen to the Past Secure the future Explore the Now Listen to the Past Communities and volunteers are at the heart of everything we do Milestones completed this year… • Settlers Barn and Garden – Stanwick Lakes • Roundhouse – Stanwick Lakes • 752m of Boardwalk – Ferry Meadows • Rivers of the World – Ferry Meadows • 2 farming documentaries for 900 voices collection • Sponsored a feature film! – ‘Nene’ • 120 events and more than 40,000 visitors at 2019 Nene Valley Festival • Community mural, new benches and signage – Rushden Greenway • All aboard for Rushden digital heritage trail – Rushden town to lakes • Launch new Nene Valley website • Back channel and bank restoration – 6 sites • New signage, carvings and seating – Barnwell Country Park • 20 Lets Fish events – across the Nene Catchment • 11 angling coaching events, 50 new multi-lingual angling signs – across Nene Catchment • 3 Polish schools, 300 young people and families engaged in Angling competition • 18 schools participated in history immersion days – Upper Nene Valley • Traditional skills training courses and over 30 community heritage activity days – Stanwick Lakes • 2 Heritage Conservation apprenticeship places created – Ferry Meadows • 2 Intern places provided, in community and environment projects – RNRP & Wildlife Trust Nene catchment wide • Flagship wetland restoration project with new interpretation panels – Ferry Meadows • 5,971 hours given in volunteer time across the scheme • Weekend River clean up, in partnership with 7 wider partner organisations – Northampton waterside Useful Nenescape project links • Nenescape project website: nenescape.org/ • New Nene Valley website, celebrating the Nene Valley as a destination: nenevalley.net/ • Nene Valley Festival: https://nenevalley.net/about/festival/ • Settlers of the Nene Valley at Stanwick Lakes: nenesettlers.org/ • Walking with Romans at Nene Park Trust: www.nenepark.org.uk/walking-with-romans • 900 voices of the Nene - online archive and digital installation: https://900voicesofthenene.co.uk/ • Nene on film and ‘Nene’ trailor: https://nenescape.org/projects-1/film • Artcodes of the Nene: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/nenescape-artcodes-along-the-nene-ice-age-to-digital-age-project-update/ • All aboard to Rushden (Artcodes) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.horizon.artcodes.nenescape&hl=en_US • Out to Water, Into history facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1991932484353679/ • East Northamptonshire Greenway plan: https://www.east-northamptonshire.gov.uk/greenway • Angling Trust, Building Bridges: https://linesonthewater.anglingtrust.net/2017/12/08/building-bridges-on-the-nene-phase-ii/ • Resilient river project: https://www.riverneneregionalpark.org/projects/resilient-river/ • Resilient River case studies: https://www.riverneneregionalpark.org/projects/case-studies/?fbclid=IwAR1goLBIVTK7imGW43A_lQgxMce_ammbsx4sDg5yY- knGjWIxMbVC_jQjZY • River Nene Regional Park: www.riverneneregionalpark.org/ • Farming for the future: www.wildlifebcn.org/farming-future • Bring Nature Closer, Nene Park Trust: https://www.nenepark.org.uk/bringing-nature-closer • Nene Valley Nature Improvement Area (NIA): https://www.wildlifebcn.org/nene-valley-nia • Nenescape project image gallery: https://nenescape.org/gallery?rq=gallery NENESCAPE YEAR 1 SUMMARY NENESCAPE YEAR 2 SUMMARY @Nenescape.
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