Watch a webinar we held on 11 December to explore learning from Esmée's Blue Spaces programme, which was established to support communities to take action to improve their local freshwaters.
The programme set out to encourage partnership working as well as reflect a range of stakeholder aspirations, engage communities, leverage additional resources, and enable more integrated approaches to freshwater action. To date, the Blue Spaces programme has supported 26 projects across the UK, totalling £4.1m. In addition to funding, the programme included a learning programme and peer network.
In this webinar, we explore key themes from our report sharing learning from the programme, the funding process and the work of the funded projects.
The panel includes:
- Hal Rhoades, Action for Conservation
- Iwan Edwards, North Wales Wildlife Trust
- Ines Hart, Involving Young People Collective
- Thalia Papanicolaou, HUDL/ Involving Young People Collective
- Jenny Wheeldon, Blue Spaces Manager, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
- Simon Wightman, Funding Manager Lead - Our Natural World, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
- Download the presentation slides
- See the transcript and additional written Q&A
- See our Blue Spaces: Working in partnership to improve local freshwaters in the UK report
Outline of the webinar
00:00:00 Welcome and Introductions
00:04:10 Background and Overview of the Blue Spaces Programme
00:08:27 Programme Design and Implementation
00:35:14 Involving Young People Collective Perspective
00:44:03 Programme Learnings and Reflections
00:58:42 Q&A
Let us know your thoughts
We hope you enjoyed watching the webinar and reading the report. We are keen to hear your views and feedback. To share your thoughts, send an email to communications@esmeefairbairn.org.uk.
