Brightlingsea Atcive Craft and Conservation Club, 2022
A Cobnuts Community Arts and Conservation Project which focuses on the local context and experiences of local people.
Funded by Tendring Together Hyperlocal Fund
For this project participants are helping to clear a neglected pond and deciding what to do with it. Previously it was a picturesque focal point which had iconic status in the local community. We are taking advice from the RSPB and local scientists on how we manage it for the benefit of wildlife while restoring it to its previous condition. Further arts and conservation activities around the pond are planned for later on in the year as well as a living willow sculpture in the Millenium Garden in Brightlingsea beach. Work continues throughout 2022.
Make it stand out.
Mill Street Pond, LIDAR Laser Scan
The Power of Participation
The project will provide outside activities which encourage connections between participants to the local landscape and its history. Workshops and events are designed to be non-didactic, collaborative, inclusive and open ended so that participants have the space to undergo creative and transformative experiences.
Listen to Roger Tabor, President of the British Naturalists’ Association discussing the condition of the pond
Listen to a resident remembering the area, including how a whale was buried here after it washed up on the beach in 1962. Photo courtesy of Brightlingsea Museum
