All posts by jefftravis

Summer was welcomed in spectacular style at Butser Ancient Farm, just south of Petersfield, at their annual Beltain Festival, back with a bang after two years of absence. As a revival of an ancient Celtic celebration to celebrate the start of summer, the festival saw over 2,500 people gather to eat, drink and make merry […]

The fantastic walking opportunities offered by the South Downs National Park, with its sweeping meadows and rolling downland, have inspired an award-winning design for a quilt. U3a is a charity that enables members to learn new things, laugh with friends and live life to the full, for people who are no longer in full-time employment […]

Rangers have supported a community to help toad populations recover. The Western Downs Ranger team have worked with residents in Newton Valence, Hampshire, to help make the village’s waters more appealing to common toads. It comes after a report from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Trust’s Arcadian Consulting, which found that the main breeding pond […]

  Alinah Azadeh, Writer in Residence for Seven Sisters Country Park, recently hosted a writers’ retreat at the breathtaking site and gives an update. Last month I held the fourth We See You Now creative retreat, produced through Writing Our Legacy as producer, aimed at bringing writers of diverse, global heritage from the South East into the […]

Thousands of children will benefit from revamped educational facilities to help them learn about the countryside, nature and sustainable farming. A new purpose-built Education Centre has been built at Seeley Copse, on the Goodwood Estate, near Chichester. It comes after Goodwood Education Trust received a £40,000 Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) grant from the National Park […]