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Enabling Natural Resources and Wellbeing Project Evaluation:
During 2020 Open Newtown coordinated a pilot project called Where the Severn Smiles. Whilst disrupted by Covid-19 it laid foundations of:
• A strong partnership of organisations in the area coming together to collaborate in a way that enables our natural resources to be linked to people’s wellbeing.
• A way of working that supports not-for-profit organisations.
This partnership, led by Open Newtown, has now won a 27-month project to take the learning from the pilot and develop the partnerships and natural asset services into sustainable services, now forming a part of the green recovery for Wales’ economy but with the real chance of positioning Newtown as a leading community in showcasing sustainable development. This Where the Severn Smiles initiative is described as:
Bringing together new nature-based partnerships at a replicable market town scale, engaging many more people & businesses (both urban & rural) in sustainably managing their natural resources alongside piloting new models of delivery.
Placing young people and their role as ‘ecological observers’ at the evidence-based heart of the project, underpinning understanding and awareness. Marrying this with the piloting of viable long-term solutions for green prescribing and business wellbeing / resilience and beginning to pilot ecosystem service payments with landowners.
In a little more detail, there are five workstreams:
• Workstream 1 – Wellbeing of People in Green Spaces through developing a Green Prescribing Service. This is formed through a partnership of Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, Cultivate Cooperative and Oriel Davies Gallery and builds directly on the work of the 2020 pilot in delivering a programme of wellbeing sessions to tackle health issues.
• Workstream 2 – Wellbeing and Resilience in Business through Nature-Based Business Resilience. This is a new partnership between Circular Economy Mid-Wales, Ponthafren Association and Robert Owen Community Banking Fund collaborating to support the towns businesses to connect better to their environmental assets, shortening and greening supply chains, building increased resilience.
• Workstream 3 – Sustainable Land and Livelihoods around our town takes Open Newtown into the rural landscape around the market town with a partnership involving the Severn Rivers Trust and Robert Owen Community Banking Fund supporting farm-based work on sustainable land management and ecosystem service payment.
• Workstream 4 – Young People leading One Planet Observatory combines the direct employment of a youth worker within Open Newtown with the undertaking of a One Planet Audit for the town, setting a baseline for how we use our environmental assets.
• Workstream 5 – Communicating and Events in natural resources is a new investment for Open Newtown that will see us working on collaboration with Oriel Davies Gallery on supporting a series of town events and investing in a Communications Manager role to support the engagement of as wide an audience as possible.
Newtown, emerging as a sustainable economic driving force for Mid Wales.
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