National Landscape Annual Conference

 

Cannock Chase National Landscape Annual Conference is being held at Beau Desert Golf Club, a championship heathland golf course set in the heart of the National Landscape.

2025 marks the start of our new five year management plan for Cannock Chase National Landscape, setting out how we are addressing key challenges and our ambitions to do more for Nature, Climate, People and Place.

This year’s conference will focus on how we make the Plan happen. We invite you to join with us and our contributors and other delegates to explore how we can work together, collaboratively, creatively and more inclusively to turn our ambitions into reality. There will also be opportunities to celebrate our successes over the previous 12 months.

What does a ‘wild and beautiful , distinctive, thriving, resilient and welcoming National Landscape’ look like to you? During the Conference participants are invited to co-create a large-scale image and text based collage with local paper artist Jennifer Collier. So bring along any paper imagery or words which represents your vision of Cannock Chase, whether it’s a magazine cutting, a printed image, a phrase or piece of text or something you have drawn yourself, and take part in imagining a greener future.

You can download the full programme for the day here.

To book your place please click here. 

Topics covered will include:-

• Connecting people with nature in Cannock Chase

Chloe Thompson-Haynes, Inclusion Senior Officer, Natural England and Saskia Luqmanic, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, Protected Landscapes Partnership.

• Green Funding and Finance – how does it work for us? 

Hannah Wilcox-Brooke, Nature based Solutions Team, The National Landscapes Association.

• Delivering positive change for nature, people and the economy

Hannah Wilcox-Brooke, Nature based Solutions Team, The National Landscapes Association.

• Protecting the landscape by strengthening connection to place

Chris Sands, The Good Company & Founder of Totally Locally.

• The Year in Review

Hear from individual partners on activities from the last year.

There will be an opportunity for a walking tour of heathland conservation work on Beau Desert golf course led by Beau Desert Golf Club.

 

 

 

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent councils are working on the preparation of a Local Nature Recovery Strategy and we are beginning the process of reviewing the AONB Management Plan.  Nature recovery will be central to our vision for the Chase for the next 5 years.  The conference allowed us to reflect on the state of nature in the National Landscape; what we mean by nature recovery; and how we can work in partnership to deliver a better future for nature.

 

Programme and Biographies of speakers on the day