We Won! Oxford Climate Awards Recognition

We are delighted to have won the Oxford Climate Award for Biodiversity and Ecology. Thank you everyone for your amazing contributions! 

It is so important to us to be able to shine a spotlight on the plight of our floodplain meadows and to celebrate the Nature Recovery Network - our bottom-up network of individuals & organisations who have come together to create a nature recovery network of this critically endangered habitat. 

It's also great to be able to highlight the work of our key long-term partners @farmability and @bridewellgardens who propagate wildflowers with us throughout the year, as well as the amazing groups and individuals who join our planting sessions and enable us to scale up our work to create a mosaic of habitats in the new meadows @oxfordconservationvolunteers, Pinkhill Scouts, Eynsham Beaver Scouts, Eynsham Society, GreenTea, Bartholomew School. 

We wouldn't be here without our wonderful network of Oxford College Gardeners, @christchurchgardener_retired, Lucille Savin (Merton College), David Craft (Magdalen College), Sam Prior (University Parks) and Oakley Loudon (LMH) who have helped us create a network of meadows along the Cherwell; and our new partners, who are growing the network of people for meadows along the Evenlode and Thames - Charlbury Land and Nature Group and @oxfordpreservationtrust. 

Our farmers Chris Strainge of Peashell Farm, George Rockall and Luke Thomas of White Hill Farm lead on practical meadow creation and management. 

Our local councillors' and funders' support is wonderful: Eynsham Parish Council, @westoxondistrictcouncil @valeofwhitehorsedc @oxfordshirecc, as are the organisations who have leased us land - Smiths of Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford Preservation Trust. 

Critical to everything we do are the amazing experts and advisors who have joined us in trying to understand the ecosystem of this vanishing habitat: entomologists Ivan Wright, Mike Wilson, Linda Losito, Steve Gregory; Matt Bulbert and Marco Campera of Oxford Brookes University and their students, the Corallian Group, Anna Rowlands, Allen Stevens, Sally Taylor, Debbie Lewis, Camilla Lambrick. And our long-term advisors and fairy-godmothers - Caroline Svendsen and Judy Webb. 

Thank you!