forest gets destroyed and the harvest
take the place replace rivers with the
rush of taxis the air gets hotter and
the grass doesn't grow who am I to ask
but I really want to know the earth is
dying now but we trying to save this
planet and save our soul let's come
together and join our hands stand up for
our mother nature's
we're in Killamarsh today we're talking
about nature and trying to get the
public's response on different surveys
and research that a lot of really
important people have been doing in this
area and especially Derbyshire. I think
the approach that the sheds bring to
the consultation exercise is just
completely different, it can be quite
dull for people to meet in church halls
and the like just to talk about
relatively dry subjects but to find a
diverse way to engage um all different
age ranges in a completely different
manner is just really important. We've
worked very hard on this project to hear
from the professionals but it's really
the public we want to hear from that's
where the value is, what do people want
to see how do they want to feel engaged
with the natural environment and
innovating how we do that engagement to
find those things out is really
important.
I think it's really important to see um
people connect with nature locally uh I
think for me it's helping people to
understand what's in their back garden
and the nature that already thrives and
exists and, I think for me hopefully the
uh mapping that we've done will show you
where nature is and I want to encourage
more people to engage with it whether
it's nature walks, whether it's
mindfulness walks, whether it's
understanding what's in your local woods
and forests even in your urban
areas there's nature around us all over
the place and I think the more that we
understand what's there I think we'll
appreciate it we will respect it and
we'll try and help it thrive. So within
the Killamarsh area we will would like
to be able to plant more trees and
connect with local land owners so if
anyone would like to go to the
Derbyshire County Council's web page
and then connect onto the Heartwood
scheme from there we can then make
connections between ourselves and be
able to provide free trees and all the
infrastructure that goes with it to a
certain extent within the local area.
Shed is touring at five different
locations we're at the first one today
in Killamarsh, we then got another
four locations so Bakewell, Glossop Swadlincote
and the Arboretum Park in Derby
city centre.
So we're currently at Bakewell
Agricultural Business Centre and we're
just here to talk to the public about
nature, see what is important to them
about their local area, see what concerns
they have and sort of see if there's any
trends or themes that match other
locations that we've been to as part of
this tour. So there is a survey there's a
local nature recovery survey where
people can comment on what's important
to them, what they might prioritize in
terms of nature and also there's sort of
like chances for them to give more sort
of open feedback, and then we're also
just taking note of the conversations we
have cause they can be as important as
people filling in the survey so what
people are saying to us verbatim what,
themes there might be and if there's
anything really key that comes up
across the conversations that we have
through a day so that we can also feed
that back into the strategy. Yeah well
actually what's been impressive is you
picked a good market to come to because
I guess most of the people who come to
Bakewell are very much outdoor people
appreciate local nature local hillsides
and the woodland and uh a lot of people
walk here they don't actually drive here,
so actually I think you've hit the nail
on the head and what a great way of
networking and gathering information
promoting, uh as a as an envir as a as a
community. I guess it's really nice to
see the different perspectives like what
I've noticed from the previous location
to today has just been the slight
difference in what people are focused
on, what people are interested in, but
then still that they care about nature,
that they want to see change and that
they want it to be something that works
for all is quite interesting as well so
it's nice to feel the differences
but the connection in purpose between
the places that we've been to and I
think that's what's important about the
tour and about what we're doing, is
trying to make those connections as well
as seeing what might be different
So we're in Derby Arboretum Park today
and behind me you can see we have got
Jam from Baby People who's been
delivering a nature connected workshop
for us, he's been working with our
National Saturday Club from the
University of Derby and they are
focusing on society and change as a
theme this year, so what they've been
doing this morning is really thinking
about their relationship with nature,
using the park as a way to think about
the sights the smells, thinking of
what their own individual connection is
to nature and to the park which is a
local park for them. Earlier Dr
Chris Barnes who's a civic champion from
the University of Derby and also part
of the nature connectedness research
group, he ran a session with the young
people explaining about what nature
connection is about why our relationship
with nature matters and different
ways of really strengthening that
relationship and ran some activities, so
they did some sky bathing enjoying the
sky and enjoying the sounds of nature
around them and then looking for
interesting bits of nature that they
could find in the park, just you know on
their doorstep, to start to enjoy and
and explore that. We had a box and we
were getting tons of items and also we
were lying down for a couple of minutes
just to look at the sky and um enjoying
the nature cause nature is more important
than you think. So we were cloud watching
and all collecting all these cool things
in little boxes and we found this giant
bit of bark that got a picture taken off.
very big. today we've been recording
the sounds of nature writing rap lyrics
and now we are going to record them. So
our team is nature so I wrote about
global warming and how the forests are
getting destroyed and everything. So one
of them that I wrote is the earth's
getting hotter and the grass doesn't
grow, who am I to ask but I really want
to know
you're harming the environment you know
it isn't right, you've been told this
time and time again so why put up a
fight people will litter, cut down trees
take squirrels lives, humans are thieves.
It did make me think that I should be a
bit more outside more cause lately just
with school and life and everything I've
been like boxed up in my room more and I
need to take more time outside like I
used to. Yeah I used to do tons of
nature stuff like forest camp stuff and
scouts when I was younger and I kind of
left it cause of school and I was just
staying inside playing games, but I feel
like now I should do more about nature
because one day it might go away.
I think shed is a really innovative
opportunity to engage communities from
across the county and city in terms of
nature and connecting with nature but
really looking at how consultation can
be a way in which it becomes an
experience. I think consultation that
we've always seen but in a traditional
way actually doesn't really engage some
of the communities that actually we
really need to be hearing from, and I
think what Shed does is it gives that
opportunity to really engage in a very
different way, it makes it accessible
it's inclusive, it's innovative, and more
importantly it's creative so the
richness of those conversations that
come out with you know through those
communities actually are incredibly
important for any type of consultation
and I think what we've seen here is that
it can be done in so many different ways
to be able to inspire conversations but
also to ensure that there is some
curiosity around whatever the subject
might be and I think being out today
it's beautiful, it's sunny, we're in a
park, there's so many families here, but
it's also really intergenerational, so
we've been having conversations from
little tiny tots all the way up to um
you know 80 90 year olds that are just
enjoying the park and enjoying the space
today.
So there's windmills in the distance
with Derby but there's less houses cause
it helps the
environment, and there's a field with
bikes and scooters cause if you were using
diesel cars it would hurt the
environment. I would like more parks and
derby.
We've came here and been around the shed
and looked at all the activities and
artwork which has been great, had a talk
from Em and Chris from the FamilyHub
did some activities so we have been
looking at nature. we've been collecting
things and, looking at sounds and
then we've had a session with Jam from
Baby People so he's been working with
young people going out into nature
and doing some sound recordings, and then
the other group have been doing some
song lyric writing and that's all based
around their ideas and themes of nature.
So we ran the art competition across the
whole school and then 600 children
actually went an submitted and
then 50 are on display, so I said that I've
come down and we were looking the
children's artwork on display, get some
photos and to inspire some children. They have
come down today and they are so into
nature and obsessed with it and they
will just talk for hours on
hours it's really good that response
with regards to nature the world they
live. And reach for the sky
help you do this look into my eyes look
into my eyes the world's off balance
climate started to shift there's
flooding around the world and the
temperature lit the beauty of the earth
is getting wrecked help save the planet
please. Today we're at Sharp's Pottery
Museum in Swadlincote where we are
doing our last of our series of public
engagements for Derbyshire County
Council's local nature recovery strategy.
People are the trustees aren't they,
they're not the overlords they are the
trustees, and we've gone to different
locations we've tried to spread out as
much as possible because Derbyshire is
huge and yeah it's about people and
that's why we're engaging with them,
from different backgrounds different you
know demographics people are what make
it sounds quite cliched but it
is true um you know the strategy may
change, people come and go, but it's the
generations, it's the people that
pick up where others have left off, it's
the next generation. A lot of the
conversations not from here but also
with Glossop which is quite recent so I
can remember quite well was um you know,
parents with their toddlers, and a lot of
what came out again it's they're the
next generation, they're coming up you
know, after today after the end of
what we say the public consultation with
the CIC Shed, it will be an evaluation
session where we'll come back and report
on many of our findings and
conversations, feedback on that, feedback
on the strategy, what they've said about
the strategy, but also what they've said
about, you know, not everyone's read the
strategy in its entirety, some have
not read it at all, you know, so just
giving feedback on that. Following
that there is going to, we're going to
write a report which again will cover a
lot of what we've spoke about in
with people in the various locations
we've been to. So in terms of local
nature recovery it's really
important that people are involved in
that and part of that, because people are
crucial to any recovery of nature that
we have, we know that nature is really
important to a lot of people's lives
but not everyone has opportunity to
access that, so this kind of work is
really important because in designing
the strategy and how we're going
to start to recover nature we need the
conversations with the public to see
what matters to them, why nature matters
to them. had some amazing
conversations this morning with
a with a young boy who was so
enthusiastic about nature and
the birds that he'd seen and
with so much enthusiasm and also a
really strong awareness of what was and
wasn't able to be seen in Derby you know
what kind of wildlife is around so it
was you know it's great to see how
much it mattered to people and
what they care about. Yeah I think it's
really important that we make sure that
we're truly engaging with communities
that are maybe unheard and don't
often get invited to take part in those
conversations, so for us it's really
important to be talking with the
different stakeholder groups absolutely,
but what's really unique about the
approach we're taking through the work
of Shed is we're also engaging with
groups that maybe aren't always invited
to have a space at that table to give
their views on what's important about
nature, what are the barriers for them
with how they can engage with nature on
a day-to-day basis, and also like Carly
said just hearing the stories about
lived experiences of all from all sorts
of people that we're meeting on this
tour has just been really eye opening
and actually really informative then for
thinking about um delivery of the
drafted strategy as well
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