National Landscapes - Events

Events

Nature Calling: Are You Lost? Nelson Culture Festival

Pendle Festival of Culture on Saturday 28 June is your first opportunity to experience Are You Lost? by Rob St John. A multi media installation exploring histories and personal stories of Bowland. Rob has worked with hundreds of people, particularly young people over the past nine months to develop the piece. You can experience Are You Lost? in Dunsop Bridge and Gisburn later in the summer.

Jack Bolton A man stands in a cobbled back street in Lancashire. There is a line of washing behind him. He is holding a sign in front of his face saying Are you Lost? in white capital letters.

A man stands in a cobbled back street in Lancashire. There is a line of washing behind him. He is holding a sign in front of his face saying Are you Lost? in white capital letters.

Upcoming Events

Cotswolds NL - Pyramidal orchid (c) Anna Field

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Big Chalk - How evidence and partnership can accelerate nature’s recovery

16 Jul 2025

Join us for our Big Chalk webinar looking at how partnership working and the use of data can drive nature restoration projects at scale and pace

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Tamar Valley NL - Above Lopwell Dam (c) Tobi O'Neill TON Drone Services

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Biodiversity Net Gain in National Landscapes: Friend or Foe?

22 Oct 2025

Join us as our Nature-based Solutions team share the findings from the Biodiversity Net Gain pilot in the Tamar Valley National Landscape.

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Three people smile at the camera. Chris Howard on the left is wearing a yellow shirt over a green t-shirt, he has fair hair and a beard. Jason Singh in the middle has arms folded and is wearing a charcoal t-shirt, he has glasses, shaved head and a dark beard. Gwyneth Herbert is wearing an oversized grey cardigan with a geometric green triangle pattern, she has short fair hair. They are standing in what looks like an estate shopping area with the post office in the background.

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Nature Calling Conversations #3: Gwyneth Herbert, Jason Singh and Chris Howard

30 Jul 2025

Gwyneth Herbert, Jason Singh and Chris Howard, Nature Calling artists for Mendip Hills National Landscape in conversation

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A woman builds a dry stone wall, she has brown hair tied back and a brown t-shirt, the wind is blowing her hair a little and she is concentrating on putting stones in the right place on the wall

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Women in Farming - Empowering Women, Champions of Upland Farming

7 Jun 2025 - 31 Aug 2025

Exhibition of portraits, interviews and recordings capturing life on upland family farms in remote rural areas like the Forest of Bowland.

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Past Events

A man stands in a cobbled back street in Lancashire. There is a line of washing behind him. He is holding a sign in front of his face saying Are you Lost? in white capital letters.

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Nature Calling: Are You Lost? at Pendle Festival of Culture

28 Jun 2025

Your first opportunity to experience Are You Lost? by Rob St John. A multi media installation exploring histories and personal stories of Bowland.

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A man is crouching in long brown grass holding a large black sign obscuring his face, it says, in white, Are You Lost?

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Nature Calling Conversations #1 Rob St John and Ruth Allen

4 Jun 2025

Rob St John, Nature Calling commissioned artist for Forest of Bowland in conversation with Ruth Allen.

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A graphic image of a hillside with pink and purple sky above, a large blue butterfly is in the foreground with birds in flight and a large sun above the hill.

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Nature Calling Conversations #2: David Blandy, Daniel Locke and Dr Lena Grinsted

25 Jun 2025

David Blandy and Daniel Locke, Nature Calling artists for Surrey Hills in conversation with Dr Lena Grinsted of the University of Portsmouth.

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National Landscapes Conference 2025 - Landscapes for Tomorrow

8 Jul 2025 - 10 Jul 2025

The 2025 National Landscapes Conference will address the question: Are National Landscapes “Fit for the Future?"

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Surrey Hills Symposium 2024

13 Nov 2024

Nature is calling - will you answer? A vision for our future.

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People walk in a line on a path through the woods, some of them carry lanterns.

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Nature Calling field trip - EUROPARC AI 'Nature for All' conference

13 Nov 2024

Chilterns National Landscape is hosting this Nature Calling themed field trip - part of the EUROPARC Atlantic Isles conference 'Nature for All'.

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Arnside and Silverdale NL - Woodland Fun Day April 23 AONB

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Ecosystems Knowledge Network Nature Finance Conference 2024

5 Nov 2024

The National Landscapes Association's Nature based Solutions team will be exhibiting at the EKN's Nature Finance Conference on 5 November.

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North Pennines National Landscape Stargazing Festival

25 Oct 2024 - 3 Nov 2024

The North Pennines National Landscape Stargazing Festival is back for 2024 – running for a week between Friday 25 October and Sunday 3 November.

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Doughnut Economics in Protected Landscapes webinar - for protected landscapes staff members

1 Oct 2024

A short introduction to Doughnut economics for Protected Landscapes staff including examples from two National Landscapes and a National Park

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Ernest Cook Trust field trip - Forest of Bowland National Landscape for EUROPARC Atlantic Isles

18 Oct 2024

Find out how Ernest Cook Trust are developing apprenticeships and trainees while delivering Nature Recovery on a working farm in a National Park.

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Shropshire Hills NL - Fly at Earls Hill (c) Ben Osborne

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Changing Landscapes: Changing Minds

3 Jul 2024 - 5 Jul 2024

The National Landscapes Conference 2024 - Changing Landscapes: Changing Minds - took place 3-5 July at Harper Adams University in Shropshire.

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The Big Chalk Conference

9 Sept 2024 - 11 Sept 2024

The inaugural Big Chalk Conference will be held in Winchester from the 9th - 11th September. Visit the conference website for more information.

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Surrey Hills Symposium 2023

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Woodland Wonder: Surrey Hills Symposium 2023

29 Nov 2023

Be inspired by Woodland Wonder in the Surrey Hills National Landscape and beyond at this year’s Symposium hosted by the University of Surrey.

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Annual Conference 2023 - Invested and Investing in Landscape: Who, why, how

5 Sept 2023 - 7 Sept 2023

Invested and Investing in Landscape: Who, why, how

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Goose Sculpture Calvo Marsh Border

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Annual Conference 2022 - The Nation's Landscapes? Peoples and Places

13 Sept 2022 - 15 Sept 2022

The Nation's Landscapes? Peoples and Places.

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