All posts by Luke Geoghegan

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, […]