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Spring talk will highlight the important role of Local Nature Partnerships
Wednesday 7 February 2024
You might not have heard of them, but Local Nature Partnerships are a big deal. Emerging from the government’s Natural Environment White Paper 2011, ‘The Natural Choice: securing the value of nature’, they aim to bring together local organisations, businesses and people who want to improve their natural environment. And you can learn about them […] Read more >
Have you seen our newspaper advert seeking CPRE Essex volunteers?
Tuesday 30 January 2024
We are now into the second week of CPRE Essex’s advertising campaign to recruit volunteers for our charity. We have run adverts in the Braintree & Witham Times, Epping Forest Guardian and Your Local Guardian newspapers in the two editions dated January 18 and January 25. Media company Newsquest has also been carrying our advert […] Read more >
Covid can’t keep a good photographer down
Tuesday 30 January 2024
You might have missed photographer Gordon Ridgewell’s delightful images over recent weeks and wondered where he’d got to. Wonder no more – the mystery has been solved… He tells us: “I am back to normal after the dreaded Covid pulled me down over the Christmas period. “The other day I went down to [wife] Megan’s […] Read more >
Watch out for our adverts seeking new volunteers in newspapers and on Facebook
Thursday 11 January 2024
CPRE Essex is constantly looking for volunteers to help in the bid to protect and enhance our county’s beautiful countryside – and as part of this we are launching a recruitment campaign across local media. We are running adverts in the Braintree & Witham Times, Epping Forest Guardian and Your Local Guardian newspapers in the […] Read more >
Former CPRE Essex vice-president Robert awarded British Empire Medal
Monday 8 January 2024
Many of the good folk of Essex will be returning to work today (Monday, January 8), so what better time to announce some wonderful and uplifting news? It was announced in this year’s New Year Honours List that ardent Essex conservationist Robert Erith TD DL had been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to […] Read more >
Rough sleeping in countryside higher than some urban areas, analysis shows
Thursday 28 December 2023
The hidden rural housing crisis continues to worsen, along with its tragic impacts on people and families. This includes rates of rough sleeping, which new CPRE analysis has revealed are worse in rural areas than many of our towns and cities. Levels of homelessness have leapt 40 per cent in the countryside in just five […] Read more >
Housing crisis poses threat to survival of rural communities, CPRE report warns
Wednesday 13 December 2023
An acute and overlooked shortage of genuinely affordable housing poses a threat to the survival of communities in rural England, reveals a report published by CPRE, the countryside charity. Unravelling a crisis: the state of rural affordable housing in England sets out the causes of the problem, lays bare its impact on real people and […] Read more >
They don’t build them like they used to!
Tuesday 14 November 2023
A little series of pictures for you today from lensman Gordon Ridgewell, who took himself and his camera to Greensted Church, which Gordon tells us is the oldest wooden church in the world. You can learn more about it here Read more >
AGM 2023: everyone’s a winner!
Monday 23 October 2023
The beautiful town of Thaxted was the delightful setting for this year’s CPRE Essex AGM – and the 23 members and supporters present enjoyed a day to remember. To be precise, Pam’s Place was the venue – and what an ideal choice it proved to be, more than catering for our needs, which of course […] Read more >
Barnstorming!
Thursday 19 October 2023
Gordon Ridgewell has turned his focus on one of our county’s architectural gems. “I had a look at Prior’s Hall Barn – now owned by English Heritage and with FREE entrance,” he tells us. And English Heritage tells us: “Prior’s Hall Barn is one of the finest surviving medieval barns in the east of England. […] Read more >