Community

The Steering Group

 

The Moor Barton Wilding land and project are actively managed by a cross disciplinary steering group, including founder Robin Bowman. The steering group is at the hub of all that happens at Moor Barton. This committed group of people bring skills, expertise and passion from their different and diverse professions and life experiences. The Steering Group is divided into a number of different workspheres, with each member being involved in several of these. Each worksphere is responsible for managing a different aspect of the project, from ecological monitoring and species reintroductions to recruiting and managing volunteers and putting together funding applications and much much more! Between them, the Steering Group holds and drives the vision of Moor Barton Wilding, making the decisions (and doing much of the work on the ground) around everything needed to fulfil the project's aim of rewilding land and people for ecological restoration, thriving wildlife and healthy, diverse communities.

 

The Moor Barton Wilding Community

 

The Steering Group is supported by the wider Moor Barton Wilding community. Our Community Rewilding Fridays and Seasonal Community Weekends are well attended and volunteers, while enjoying time in nature in good company, help to tend the land. Ecological surveys are undertaken, the self seeded larch trees that threaten to shade out the young broadleaf trees are taken out, trails are strimmed to maintain transitional edge environments, bracken is bashed to steady its efforts to take over, glades are opened to let in the light, seeds spread to bring more diversity and fruit and nut trees planted and tended to feed us and other creatures. The list goes on and on! 

 

While folk work, learn and sometimes camp together, stories, skills, ideas and experiences are all shared. And, over the years, a strong, supportive and welcoming community has formed around Moor Barton Wilding. The many different people who come and spend time on the land bring a myriad of skills, ideas and life experiences, all of which add to the richness and diversity of this community.

 

We would love you to join us! If you’d like to come along to a Community Rewilding Friday or Seasonal Community Rewilding Weekend or would just like to find out more, please send us an email and we we'll send you all of the information you need.

 

Click here for the calendar of forthcoming Community Rewilding Days and Weekends.