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Community Nature Recovery

Good news! 🌳Woodland Savers🌳 is now fully funded and launched. We're here to ask - and answer - some vital questions: 🌱 How can communities help reverse nature decline? 🌿 How can the capital needed for nature recovery be unlocked? 🌳 How can communities and nature best replenish one another? Woodland Savers was founded in 2022 by Franny Armstrong, Tamsin Allen and adam wishart to meet these challenges. Building on a career in #socialentrepreneurship, I was hired to help create an organisation fit for the task, now joined by the brilliant Tessa Bartlett. We are #HIRING: follow us on LinkedIn or contact us for more information. On 8 February 2024 we completed a £.7m 🌱seed funding round, led by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, supported by Bates Wells, after a research and development phase funded by the Forestry Commission and the Frederick Mulder Foundation. Our approach is to help communities to acquire local woodlands and other cherished natural landscapes, and take them into active, long-term, nature-positive management. We do this in collaboration with national wildlife charities including The Woodland Trust and The Wildlife Trusts, natural capital data partners Treeconomy and rePLANET, values-aligned co-investors and philanthropists. We create a new #communitybusiness in each case, and support the #longterm stewardship and protection of #local #nature, #socialvalue and #economic #resilience, balancing local characteristics with national expertise. We are now looking for #PROJECTS across the UK. Do you know of a community looking for help to buy their local #woodland? They might be worried that a landscape they love and depend on may fall into remote or commercial-first ownership, threatening access, neglect or nature-negative use of the land. We can help them crowdfund and match-fund, and deliver a nature-first landscape management plan. Find us at woodlandsavers.org (new website coming soon...), contact us at [email protected], or on socials @woodlandsavers. Our thanks go to the skill, commitment, and collegiate spirit of our advisors, supporters, and friends: Richard Tyrie and Joss Hunt at Good People, Simon Milton Jamie Anley and Maria O'Connor Ph.D. at MovingBeyond.co.uk, Jonny Page and John Fairbairn, Frederick Mulder, Carman Family Foundation, Michael Norton, Holly Turner and Louise Hosking, Jess Search 💛🚀 and Beadie Finzi at DOC SOCIETY, EDUARDO CUBRIA, Barnaby Wiener, Alasdair Maclay, Jenny Edwards CBE FFP, Nick Gardner, Kathy Willis, Emily Gowers, Gavin Starks, Steve Cole, Anthropy UK, Plunkett UK, Erica Neve FRSA and Sir Tim Smit at Eden Project. Here's to bringing #communitypower 💛 and #naturefinance 🚀 to the all-important challenge of #naturerecovery 🐝

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Charlotte Hollins

Managing England's first community-owned farm and campaigning for new legislation for a Community Power Act as part of the We're Right Here Campaign

5mo

You Amy also interested in this campaign which includes a community right to buy. We need as many people as possible to pledge their support to show government that real legislative change is needed Www.right-here.org

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Erika Rushton

Creative Economist working with a myriad of inspirational folk across the North West, the UK and the Globe

6mo

Grow-Wellbeing CIC is trying to do exactly this. Duane Chong 👆

Jess Daggers, PhD

Exploring how to measure impact in complex systems @TransCap Initiative

6mo

There's a project in my local area that fits the bill very well - they've already done a huge amount to stop the development of a strip of ancient woodland in Brockley, SE London. https://fourthreserve.org/

Matt Golding

Storytelling + film + climate. Director at Rubber Republic. Exciting people about a more sustainable future. BCorp. Founder at The Cultural Content Lab

6mo

This looks amazing Christoph and overlaps with work we're doing in community storytelling space so will put feelers out 💪 🙌

Congratulations Christoph Warrack !! This is incredible. The next time I'm in the UK I'd love to introduce you to an organisation I'm closely associated with called Initiatives of Change. Would love to see you again too! Much love.

Jeremy Riggall

Founder at Sketch Films | Crafting High-Quality Films

6mo

Brilliant! Congrats Christoph Warrack! Will have a think and ask the team at BBC Future Planet.

Jenny Sansom

Programme management, learning and facilitation for funders

5mo

This is brilliant news Christoph Warrack following with great interest!! Jenny

Richard Tyrie

Founder / CEO at GoodPeople

6mo

Fantastic achievement Christoph Warrack. This type of bottom up, community-led approach will one day be the norm, but we’ll never get there without people like you - that are willing to do the heavy lifting and preparing of the ground. Getting to this stage is gruelling and punishing work; overwhelming in complexity; requiring daily grit, courage, determination and unswerving self-belief to get things moving. But you have. And this is just the start. Big appreciation and salutes Christoph. You should be very proud. 💚

Tremendous work Christoph Warrack. Hopefully we should have people in the Anthropy UK community that can recommend projects to keep the work going.

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