On Friday 15 November, 113 representatives from meadow groups and other organisations gathered at Norbury Village Hall for the first national meadow groups conference. 

Delegates came from as far afield as Hampshire, Wye Valley, Salisbury, Cumbria and Merseyside. 

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The conference was organised by Marches Meadow Group committee member, Janet Cobb, and sponsored by the Shropshire Hills Landscape Trust and supported by Middle Marches Community Land Trust.

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Below are copies of the presentations given at the conference.

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Link to the Conference programme is here.

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Please click on the links below for the day’s presentations.
 

A conference report will follow.

Below are links to the presentations given on the day (links open as pdfs unless otherwise indicated):

• Rachel Cockett: 
  Shropshire Hills Landscape Trust

• Jake Rayson, Biodiversity Assistant, Ceredigion Local Nature Partnership: 
  Everything you wanted to know about setting up a grasslands group but were afraid to ask (external link)

• Clare Parton, Head of Projects, Plantlife: 
  An Overview of Plantlife’s Grassland Work

• Rory Johnson, Co-Director and Meadows Adviser, Herefordshire Meadows: 
  From Facilitation Fund to Fully Registered Charity: the why and how?

• Isabel Macho, Biodiversity Officer, Carmarthenshire County Council: 
  Camarthenshire Meadows Group

• Emma Rothero, Floodplain Meadows Partnership Manager, 
  Floodplain Meadows Partnership

• Josh Styles, botanical specialist: 
  Recreating Wildflower Meadows in Liverpool

• Rachel Richards, B-Lines Officer: 
  B-Lines connected flower-rich habitats for pollinators and other wildlife

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