What will Warwickshire look like in 2050? Will there be enough water to grow food? Will our houses regularly flood? Will our economy be growing? Will people and wildlife be thriving? Predicting the future is not easy, but research and data suggest we need to invest now in a more sustainable future before it’s too late. That’s why a partnership formed back in 2023 to develop a new way of funding a sustainable future for Warwickshire.
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, Severn Trent, the Environment Agency, and Warwickshire County Council have been supported by The Nature Conservancy and Pegasys Consulting to develop a funding model for a sustainable Warwickshire. They have been mapping out where nature projects like tree planting, creating wetlands and ponds or installing leaky barriers, would bring the biggest benefits. They’ve also been working out how much this would cost and the value it could return to society.
If you missed the webinar on 13 June, you can now catch up via the updated webpage.
https://www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/nature4water
- Business Case Summary (full business case will be uploaded alongside this in due course).
- Recording of the webinar (in case you missed it, want to re-watch sections or share it with colleagues or networks).
- Recording of MP Mary Creagh introducing the work and setting it in the national context of investment in nature.
An FAQ’s document will also be uploaded onto the webpage in due course with answers to all of the questions raised during the webinar.
Over the coming weeks the partners working on the Nature4Water Warwickshire Avon programme will be following up with anyone who got in touch via nature4water@wkwt.org.uk to have further conversations.
The partners are on the look out for opportunities to share the story of this work to new audiences so if you have lunch and learn sessions in your organisation or are part of a business or sector network and you think colleagues need to know more about this work then please get in touch via nature4water@wkwt.org.uk.