Easter Newsletter

 
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The Up on the Downs team hope you enjoy a sunshine filled Easter discovering the heritage on your doorstep.

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The Up on the Downs Landscape Partnership Scheme is a five year Heritage Lottery Funded project involving a wide range of partners. Up on the Downs aims to work with local communities to conserve and celebrate the landscape and heritage of the Dover and Folkestone area.

Find out who's involved

Learning and Teaching Up on the Downs

Teaching and Learning

New online resources have been made available for schools to help make it easier for teachers to take their classes into the great outdoors.  We are very pleased with the results and they can be viewed, downloaded and used from the website...


Surviving the Wild

Bushcraft

Up on the Downs have teamed up with Dover Town Council and Skills Horizon to offer bushcraft and geocaching events for 13 to 18 year olds over the Easter weekend. For more information and to book a place visit the What's On page of our website.


Training on the Downs

Basket Weaving

This year's training programme, which offers free places on a wide range of courses relating to our built and natural heritage, is now well underway.  Courses on basketry, hedgelaying and woodland archaeology have already taken place but we are still taking bookings on a whole host of other courses.  More info and booking...


A Different Way of Seeing

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We are working with Screen South to deliver film making workshops to teenagers and find out what they think about their landscape. The first of these has already taken place but more are coming up shortly.  Find out more about the project and how to attend.


Making a Buzz for the Coast

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The Bumblebee Conservation Trust is developing a new project to help strengthen and protect wild bee species around 300 miles of our coastline from Dartford to Rye. The Kent coast is a hotspot for rare bumblebees, with more species found here than anywhere else in the UK. Visiting communities all around the coast, Making a Buzz will offer something for everyone to get involved in – from learning to identify bumblebees, to getting stuck in to help restore vital habitat for rare bees, or making your very own buzzing window box or solitary bee hotel!

But they need your help!  Why not complete their quick online survey to tell them what you think about the project and what activities interest you most – they’d love to hear from you.

Up on the Downs Landscape Partnership Scheme
c/o Dover District Council
Council Offices
White Cliffs Business Park
Dover CT16 3PJ

Tel: 01304 872138

Email: uponthedowns@dover.gov.uk

Web: www.uponthedowns.org.uk

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