What's on: Eco Events from July 5 - 12

Everything from 🌿 foraging to 🎲 games, 🎬 films and 📸 photography

Welcome to the 77th edition of the The Northern Eco. Here’s a round-up of events coming up across North Yorkshire and the North East for those with a greener heart.
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Opportunity

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is looking for three dedicated people to join their Board of Trustees and to help guide a greener and wilder future for everyone in Yorkshire.

The Trust directly manages over 100 nature reserves and is at the forefront of conservation work across Yorkshire, from groundbreaking partnership programmes such as Wild Ingleborough and Wilder Humber to their recent release of the first-ever State of Yorkshire’s Nature report.

The charity is managed by a Board of Trustees, who support and guide the charity to achieve a wilder Yorkshire that more people feel encouraged to enjoy. Each trustee brings their own experience to advise the Trust, and represents the Trust’s 45,000 members.

Trustees join for a limited time, which creates vacancies and ensures the Trust benefits from different experiences and fresh perspectives. No prior experience of being a trustee is required, and the Trust encourages everyone who feels they have skills and time to offer to apply.

The Trust is particularly interested in hearing from people with financial experience; legal experience; charity fundraising experience; conservation, wildlife or ecology experience; and experience in land acquisition, management or farming.

Being a trustee is a voluntary role, and successful trustees should expect to commit at least five hours a month to Trust affairs, preparing for and attending meetings.

If you are interested in helping to shape Yorkshire’s wild future, visit the website here.

You can also find out more about what the Trust does and the role of trustees as part of a Zoom event on 19^th July – more information can be found on the Trustee job role page.

Events

• Prepare to be Inspired! Friday 5 July 9.30 - 12pm Baltic Campus, Gateshead.

• Custodians of the soil - Swaledale farming, film and photography festival at The Station, Richmond from Friday 5th - Tuesday 16 July.

• Riverfest 2024, a free family fun day with the aim of connecting the people of Bishop Auckland to nature and their local river. By Wear Rivers Trust Sunday 7 July from 12 - 5pm.

• York! Get to grips with the Ecological Crisis is on Monday 8 July from 2pm - 5pm.

• Shaking Up Sustainable Farming on Tuesday, 9 July 2pm -3pm at Great Yorkshire Show Showground, Harrogate.

• Six Inches of Soil film screening at The Station on Wednesday 10 July at 5pm.

• Coastal Forage and Cook (Half Day) in Arnside on Friday 12 Jul from 10:00 - 1pm.

• Do you have an event to share with readers of The Northern Eco? Drop me an email with the details: sarah@thenortherneco.com.

• We’ll be back as usual on Tuesday with the newsletter. In the meantime you can also check out the website or app during the week for updates as they happen.

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