Your Landscape, Your Plan

Join us for this year’s Annual Forum launching the Management Plan 2025-30

Registration from 9.30am
Main programme starts: 10.00am
A light lunch will be served after the main programme

Venue: Herongate Club
Charnham Park, Hungerford, RG17 0YU

£10 for tickets to cover catering.  Spaces are limited and must be booked in advance.

Our Forum this year is focussing on launching our new Management Plan, celebrating achievement and encouraging action from all.  The morning will consist of talks from the team and a selection of external speakers.

After lunch, there will be resources for delegates to interact with until 3.45pm, encouraging action and delivery for the life of the Management Plan (Nature Recovery, Climate, Historic Environment and Access)

09:30    Registration and Refreshments

10:00  Welcome and Introduction to the day

Gill Haggarty, Chair, North Wessex Downs National Landscape Council of Partners

10:10   North Wessex Downs: the year in review

Henry Oliver, Director, North Wessex Downs NL

10:30    Mend the Gap

Ruth Staples-Rolfe, Programme Manager

10:50    Farming in Protected Landscapes

Jemima Sellwood, Farming in Protected Landscapes Officer

11:00     Partnerships for Nature (P4N)

Tony Currivan, Project Coordinator

11.30   Break

12:00    Revised North Wessex Downs Landscape Character Assessment

Rebecca Davies, Principal Landscape & Planning Officer

12:15   Launch of the new Management Plan, 2025-30

Henry Oliver, Director, North Wessex Downs NL

12:30   Afternoon Resources: Quick fire

13:15   Lunch (and pledges to the North Wessex Downs National Landscape)

14:15   Afternoon Resources Session

15:45   End