On Friday 15 November 2024, 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. 

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

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Conference Resources
 

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 or external websites):

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• Rachel Cockett: 
  Shropshire Hills Landscape Trust
  shropshirehills-nl@shropshire.gov.uk
   

• Jake Rayson, Biodiversity Assistant, Ceredigion Local Nature Partnership: 
  Everything you wanted to know about setting up a grasslands group but were afraid to ask
  Jake.Rayson@ceredigion.gov.uk
   

• Claire Parton, Head of Projects, Plantlife: 
  An Overview of Plantlife’s Grassland Work
  Claire.Parton@plantlife.org.uk
   

• Rory Johnson, Co-Director and Meadows Adviser, Herefordshire Meadows: 
  From Facilitation Fund to Fully Registered Charity: the why and how?
  rory@herefordshiremeadows.org.uk
   

• Isabel Macho, Biodiversity Officer, Carmarthenshire County Council:
  Camarthenshire Meadows Group
  IMacho@carmarthenshire.gov.uk
   

• Emma Rothero, Floodplain Meadows Partnership Manager: 
  Floodplain Meadows Partnership
  emma.rothero@open.ac.uk
   

• Josh Styles, botanical specialist: 
  Recreating Wildflower Meadows in Liverpool
  josh@britishbotany.co.uk
   

• Rachel Richards, B-Lines Officer: 
  B-Lines connected flower-rich habitats for pollinators and other wildlife
  rachel.richards@buglife.org.uk  

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Conference Programme