talks
Talk proves a winter winner… trust us
Monday 20 March 2023
The date… Wednesday, February 22. The time… 6.30pm. The place… your laptop. Yes, it could mean only one thing: the CPRE Essex winter talk. Choosing to do things a little differently this time round, we elected to have just the one talk over the season – and so it fell to Dr Andrew Impey, chief […] Read more >
The Vital Role that Wildlife Trusts play in Nature Conservation: catch our winter talk on Zoom
Tuesday 14 February 2023
Here’s just a quick reminder that Dr Andrew Impey, chief executive of Essex Wildlife Trust, is giving this winter’s CPRE Essex talk next week. Titled The Vital Role that Wildlife Trusts play in Nature Conservation, it will be presented free of charge via Zoom on Wednesday, February 22, at 6.30pm. Everyone is welcome to join […] Read more >
Wildlife trust CEO to give this winter’s CPRE Essex talk
Friday 27 January 2023
We are delighted to announce that one of the county’s leading wildlife experts, Dr Andrew Impey, will be giving this winter’s CPRE Essex talk. After the resounding success of our series of talks over the last two winters, we have decided to do things a little differently this year, with just the one presentation. Dr […] Read more >
Last talk of our winter series focuses on the challenges of farming… and also the joys
Monday 11 April 2022
The final talk of our CPRE Essex winter series, entitled Challenges of Farming: Past, Present and Future, was presented by Christy Willett, formerly billed on these pages as an AHDB farmer but who had in fact given up that role in 2020. No matter, she stressed her time with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board […] Read more >
Faith in farming? You bet!
Tuesday 1 March 2022
Faith in farming? The question mark in the title was key, said Rev Canon Janet Nicholls as she introduced her talk to a CPRE Essex audience of 26 people. Does society have faith in producing good food and looking after the environment? Indeed, did farmers have that faith? What if the answer was no? The […] Read more >
Our final talk looks at the challenges of farming… please do join us!
Monday 28 February 2022
The fourth and final talk of our CPRE Essex winter series will be given by Christy Willett on Wednesday (March 2). It begins at 6.30pm via Zoom and will be entitled Challenges of Farming: Past, Present and Future. Ms Willett is an AHDB farmer from Galleywood, Chelmsford, where she farms 475 hectares of owned and […] Read more >
Our next talk is on Wednesday, February 23, and entitled Faith in Farming?
Wednesday 16 February 2022
The first two in our winter series of talks have gone down exceptionally well, so you might want to note a slight change in the order of the final two. We now have Rev Canon Janet Nicholls, rural adviser and agricultural chaplain, giving her talk, Faith in Farming?, on Wednesday, February 23, and Christy Willet, […] Read more >
Talk highlights how our farming environment can make a place for wildlife
Wednesday 16 February 2022
It’s fair to say that we could probably all do with a lift in spirits right now – and it duly came with the second in our winter series of talks. Rebecca Inman, of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, presented The Farming Environment to a Zoom audience of 33 participants, who showed their appreciation […] Read more >
Join us for our next talk as the farming environment comes into focus
Monday 7 February 2022
The next talk in our winter series could hardly be more topical, with Rebecca Inman from the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group presenting The Farming Environment. Ms Inman is a farm environment adviser for FWAG East, with almost 25 years’ experience giving on-farm advice. Prior to this she worked for seven years on farm enterprises […] Read more >
Veganuary, solar farms, neonicotinoids, greenwash… it’s all there in the first talk of our winter series
Friday 28 January 2022
The first speaker in our series of winter talks didn’t pull any punches when he got things under way this week with The Importance of British Food Production. Essex farmer Tom Bradshaw, vice-president of the National Farming Union, gave the talk via Zoom to a healthy audience of 29 people on Wednesday (January 26). Launching […] Read more >