Haweswater Archives - Wild Haweswater

Celebrating our work: Wild Haweswater revealed as finalist in the 2024 Ashden Awards.

By wildhaweswater / March 13, 2024

We’re delighted to be one of seventeen outstanding organisations delivering innovative climate solutions that have reached the finals of the prestigious 2024 Ashden Awards. Over 500 organisations applied for the 2024 Ashden Awards, and Wild Haweswater is one of just two finalists in the category of Nature Based Solutions (UK) celebrating inclusive, community-led transformation in […]

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Our work in focus: 200th tree planted in Wild Haweswater Celebration Wood

By wildhaweswater / February 1, 2024

As part of our work to restore the landscape here, we’re delighted to have planted the 200th tree in Celebration Wood, which neighbours the mossy ancient woodland of Naddle Forest here at Wild Haweswater.

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Partnerships: Meet the Haweswater tweed

By wildhaweswater / November 20, 2023

Haweswater tweed throw in blue, image credit: Lake District Tweed We’re excited that a unique Haweswater tweed has been produced by Cumbrian company Lake District Tweed and it is proving to be popular in the US as well as at home. Lake District Tweed began producing tweed inspired by different valleys across the Lake District

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Volunteer Voices: Phil’s path to Wild Haweswater

By wildhaweswater / September 5, 2023

This International Day of Charity, one of our volunteers Phil, tells us all about how he got into volunteering for the RSPB… Phil volunteers in the Tree Nursery at Haweswater. Image taken by Visitor Experience Manager Annabel When I was a nine-year old boy, in the not-too-pretty town of West Hartlepool, some days I would

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Bird's-eye view of Swindale Valley with a re-wiggled Swindale Beck flowing through the middle

Celebrating our work: Cumbrian rivers project scoops prestigious European Riverprize

By wildhaweswater / December 5, 2022

We’re incredibly proud to be part of an ambitious programme to restore and improve rivers in the Lake District, that has just beaten immense competition from across Europe to win the prestigious European Riverprize. The work headed up by the Environment Agency and Natural England has involved several partners around the county including us here

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A Vision of Wild Haweswater’s Future

By wildhaweswater / February 20, 2022

Tucked away at the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park, Haweswater Reservoir sits encircled by looming fells. The glacially-carved landscape is studded with mossy woodlands, rocky crags, bogs, tarns and rushing streams. The whole area is owned by water company United Utilities, and the reservoir supplies 2 million of their customers with their

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Volunteer Voices: The Fence

By wildhaweswater / May 28, 2020

Haweswater’s trusty volunteers may be unable to take part in our Thursday work parties right now, but they’ve been keeping in touch online. From quizzes to sharing some (very) creative writing, they’ve been up to it all. Here’s one of our favourite poems from Haweswater Volunteer Chris Brookes, which will hopefully give you as much

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Holes in the map, part 2: Black Grouse

By wildhaweswater / April 16, 2020

RSPB Haweswater Site Manager, Lee Schofield, reflects on a species that recently vanished from the Lake District and what maps can tell us about the history of wildlife in Cumbria. For my 40th birthday, not too long ago, my wife gave me a framed print of the 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map of the area surrounding

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Warden’s Journal: Signs of Spring

By wildhaweswater / April 6, 2020

In the first of our Warden’s Journal entries, Haweswater Site Warden Spike Webb shares his sightings of spring in our corner of the Lake District, prior to the lockdown.

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Site Manager’s Journal: Restoring Swindale Beck

By wildhaweswater / March 31, 2020

RSPB Haweswater Site Manager, Lee Schofield, shares insights into the nature and farming gains of the Swindale Beck restoration project; from a historically straightened channel to a new curving course brimming with life.

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