Education & Public Engagement
We want to help change public debate about rivers and water quality in this country, and are passionate about talking to people of all ages in schools and in the community.
Education
We are working with various schools in Bury St Edmunds, with the Brecks Landscape Partnership and with the Green Light Trust to develop and extend our inclusive programme of education for Key stages 1, 2, and 3. If you would like to talk to us about how we can enhance education provision in your setting, please get in touch here.
We are delighted to have been given a grant by West Suffolk Council from their Thriving Communities Fund, 2026-27, to help develop this work.
Public Engagement
Approaches to river management are changing fast. What was deemed appropriate only a few years ago is now recognised as both damaging to the natural environment and likely to make the effects of extreme flood and drought events even worse. This was highlighted in Sir Jon Cunliffe's report for the Independent Water Commission, 2025, where he calls for more 'innovative' Nature-based Solutions, of the kind that RLCP delivers.
But public expectations of what a river 'should' look like and how it should be managed, and public debate about the causes of pollution in our waterways and how we can prevent or mitigate them have not kept up. We have therefore embarked on a programme of public engagement connected with our river restoration plans. If you would like us to come to deliver a talk to a local organisation anywhere in the Lark catchment, please get in touch here.