For Gardens Trust and County Gardens Trust Members
14th June 2019, 10.30am-4.00pm
Writtle University College, Chelmsford
An opportunity for Gardens Trust and County Gardens Trust members to meet each other and discuss ideas, skills and questions. The Agenda will allow for discussions on CGT experiences of Conservation, Outreach and Research & Recording. Our highlight speaker, from the Land of the Fanns Partnership Scheme, will tell us about this 5 year NHLF-funded project in East London and SW Essex, which provides opportunities for CGT involvement and aims to ‘reunify and discover the landscape, strengthen attachment and create a sense of enjoyment of the landscape area for local people and visitors’.
Meet Ups are free to attend and are open to all members of any CGT and the Gardens Trust, no matter where in the country they are held, and no matter the attendees’ current level of involvement with their local gardens trust. A friendly and informal atmosphere encourages all to join in.
Come and learn more about the varied and valued voluntary work undertaken by CGTs.
Programme
10.30am Arrival, tea, coffee and biscuits
10.45am Welcome and Introductions (Tamsin McMillan, the Gardens Trust, Historic Landscape Project)
11.00am Discussion Session 1: Conservation Content: Each CGT to bring brief items from their county to discuss
12.00pm Discussion Session 2: Outreach, Including education, events, partnerships etc Content: Each CGT to bring brief items from their county to discuss
1.00pm Lunch and networking
2.00pm Discussion Session 3: Research and Recording Content: Each CGT to bring brief items from their county to discuss
3.00pm Highlight Speaker (Deborah Brady, Heritage Engagement Officer, Land of the Fanns Partnership Scheme) An introduction to an historic landscape research and recording training project for new volunteers in London and Essex
3.30pm Tea, AOB and current issues for CGTs
4.00pm Close
This event is free, with hot drinks and lunch included, but if you would like to make a £7 donation on the day, to help us with our costs, that would be gratefully accepted.
Image reproduced with kind permission of the Dene Valley Regeneration Project www.deanvalley.org.uk