All posts by Luke Geoghegan

Give the South Downs this Christmas

December 5th, 2017

Still trying to find the perfect gift for someone special? If they love the South Downs then we have a few ideas and each one gives something back to the National Park. For the craft beer lover Award winning South Downs brewery Langham have renamed their Best Bitter after the National Park and 5p from […]

The ebb and flow of tide mills

December 5th, 2017

If you’re looking for a curious place to take a Boxing Day stroll, or a complete antidote to Christmas excess, then a visit to Tide Mills might suit your purposes. New interpretation panels show how much we are still learning about the history of this unusual nature reserve just across the river Ouse from the […]

Do you love the South Downs Way?

December 5th, 2017

20,000 people walk, cycle or ride the length of the South Downs Way national trail and millions more will explore sections of it on days out each year – that causes a lot of wear and tear! A new campaign is asking people who love the trail to help raise £120,000 to mend it. It’s […]

National Park Minister says thank you to South Downs volunteers

December 5th, 2017

Lord Gardiner, Minister for National Parks, visited the South Downs National Park ahead of International Volunteer Day, marked on 5 December each year, to celebrate the power and potential of volunteering. On 1 December Lord Gardiner met some of the South Downs Volunteer Rangers who give up their time in the West Sussex part of […]

Langham brews up funding for South Downs National Park

December 4th, 2017

Award winning South Downs’ brewery Langham are kindly donating 5p from every bottle of their best-bitter sold to support the new charity for the National Park. Langham Brewery are the first corporate partners for the South Downs National Park Trust, which launched in October 2017.  They have also helped to raise £647.86 for the Trust’s first […]

Lewes Depot wins prestigious planning award

December 1st, 2017

Work done by the South Downs National Park Authority and Burrell Foley Fischer Architects to restore an old brewery site into a cinema and community arts venue has been recognised with a top regional planning award. The Depot Cinema in Lewes was crowned overall winner at the RTPI South East Awards for Planning Excellence, and […]

Minister for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity plants oak in South Downs National Park

December 1st, 2017

National Tree Week is marked today, 1st December, by the planting of what could be a future ancient monument, if research and action aimed at prevention and management of tree disease is successful.  An oak tree, locally sourced and grown, was carefully sited in a hedgerow on the South Downs National Park by Lord Gardiner, […]