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Welcome to the Countryside Code newsletter, updating stakeholders in Wales on new developments and ways to get involved.
 We have created a suite of bilingual resources for schools and other educators to teach learners about the Countryside Code in an interactive and engaging way.
The resources encourage learners to investigate and research the history and purpose of the Countryside Code, to consider their own views of the countryside and to discuss how the Countryside Code might appear in the future.
The resources include activity plans, information notes, resource cards, teaching presentations and videos that are linked to the Curriculum for Wales and offer multiple opportunities to develop integral skills within the four purposes.
The resources have been shared with educators through our outdoor learning newsletter and are available on our website.
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We are commissioning a small campaign to run early next year, with a focus on responsible recreation with dogs and lambing season. We are keen to hear from any partners and stakeholders who may wish to get involved and would benefit from collaboration on this campaign work, under the Countryside Code. Common issues raised at the Countryside Code stakeholder workshop earlier in the year identified dog control, livestock worrying and litter. We’d like to invite any interest now should partners wish to collaborate and have ideas of their own that might benefit across partners.
To discuss further, please contact Alison Roberts
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Make the most of the opportunity to use this lovable character to engage your audience in the Countryside Code this coming spring. Shaun certainly drew the crowds when we used him on our Royal Welsh Show stand in July.
Natural England has the licence to use Shaun the Sheep as part of the Countryside Code campaign until May 2025. The licence allows partners, including those in Wales, to use the Aardman assets on Countryside Code related work. Many of the Shaun the Sheep assets are also available in Welsh.
If you would like to use Shaun to promote responsible visiting, please get in touch.
Alternatively, you can link to or embed Shaun’s videos from our YouTube playlists in English and Welsh.
We are aiming to move away from the illustration style that has been used across the family of codes for many years, in response to feedback we’ve received in our stakeholder survey.
Creating a new image library that represents all of the messages included in the codes is a big job, so we are seeking help from other organisations.
Do you have images that you would be willing to include in the library for us and others to use to promote responsible recreation? Your images can be credited to show you have provided them.
We are looking for images covering the following areas:
- Sharing the trail: walkers, cyclists and/or horse riders together
- Angling
- Canoeing
- Wild swimming
- Dogs on leads near farm animals
- Any recreational activities set in parks or urban green spaces
If you are able to provide these or other suitable images, please let us know.
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The Countryside Code toolkit now contains short reels under 15 seconds long that focus on simple messages from the Countryside Code and the Dog Walking Code.
You can download these reels and other content for your channels from our partner toolkit.
We love to get feedback to help us develop new content, so please let us know what assets you would like to see in the toolkit in the future.
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We are issuing a Christmas-themed news release and social media this week with top tips for enjoying the outdoors responsibly over the festive period.
Please share the posts on Friday 20 December from the @natreswales Facebook, X and Instagram pages.
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Our partners, Natural England, sent out a Countryside Code newsletter in November. If you’re not on the distribution list, you can read their newsletter here.
Please share this newsletter with others that would find it of interest.
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