Over 20 Wellbeing Sessions Delivered
In the last few months we’ve run over 20 wellbeing sessions for local people! We’ve been working with groups including Battling On, Trevi House in Plymouth, Tavistock Youth Café and Drawn to the Valley. We’ve run quite a few events with Tavistock Youth Café and one of the highlights was a night camping in Caradon […]
Work Continues Apace on the Valley’s Heritage
Monument Management Scheme (MMS) We are working with Historic England to survey and develop reports for important historic sites in and around the Valley, namely Gunnislake Clitters Mine, New Consols Mine, Okel Tor Mine, Gawton Mine, Holmbush Mine (Winsor Lane), Tamar Canal Lock and WW2 Landing Craft Grid at Saltash. This work is now coming […]
Tamar Grow Local to Lead Promoting our Produce Project
We are working with Tamar Grow Local to revitalise the Valley’s market garden industry by supporting existing and new market gardening enterprises and community groups. This includes new community allotments; specialised training and demonstration sites; a network of local food ambassadors, and a ‘brand’ to market the produce will also be explored. We have commissioned Tamar […]
Summer developments
During the Spring, consultations on the Tamara Coast to Coast Way took place and the feedback has been incredibly helpful, so thank you to everyone who took part. Over the summer we will be looking at the suggestions we’ve had about potential route changes, and to finalise what path improvements will be needed. Work has […]
New Land Manager Joins the Tamara Team!
Working in partnership with Farming In Protected Landscapes (FIPL), colleagues at the AONB, we have been busy engaging with farmers and landowners. With the appointment of our new Tamara Landscape Partnership Land Manager, Sarah Richardson, over the coming months we will be focusing on identifying further sites for hedge planting and restoration and tree planting. […]
Conservation Plan Complete and Mapping Miners’ Smallholdings
Mapping the Miners’ Smallholdings We have been working with the World Heritage Site (WHS) and Exeter University to map the mineworkers’ smallholdings in the Valley to inform the WHS Management Plan. During the mining boom in the Valley, some mineworkers were given land to grow their own vegetables, but there isn’t a clear picture of […]
Over 200 children take part in first Tamara Bioblitz
In the run up to the summer there have been numerous art, heritage, nature, local produce and water- based events taking place. We also ran our first ever large-scale school event at Pentillie Castle and Estate. The BioBlitz took place over three days with 232 pupils and staff from four local primary schools joining in. […]
Seeking Miners, Growers and Forestry Workers!
To create an oral history of the Valley we are looking for anyone who remembers what life was like working in the mines, the market garden industry, forestry or ferries. The oral history will form part of the Heritage Hub, which will store a wealth of historical information about the valley in an online resource […]
River Explorers is a Hit!
As part of our support for the Westcountry River’s Trust Citizen Scientist Investigations (CSI) volunteering programme we’re delighted to say that we’ve had lots of local interest and sign up. The scheme aims to educate and engage people with the water environment, produce data that can be used to target work and identify degrading water […]
Tamara Scheme announces pioneering training project for the Tamar Valley
The first of over 20 apprenticeship, foundation and internship training opportunities has been announced by the Tamara Landscape Partnership Scheme, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The first role is a National Trust assistant ranger apprenticeship, which has been jointly funded in partnership with the National Trust (see www.nationaltrustjobs.org.uk). The apprenticeship will last 18 months, […]