Surrey Nature Partnership invited members of the board, officers and people from many of our supporting organisations to join us for a review of 2024. Surrey Nature Partnerships new Chair, Richard Murphy introduced the event and thanked members for their support and contributions over the year.
Updates were presented from Surrey Nature Partnership, The Catchment Partnerships, Surrey Biodiversity Working Group, Surrey Local Sites Partnership and Surrey Nature Recovery.
Key highlights
Surrey Nature Partnership
- Engaging the public through Surrey Nature Day
- Key Engagement Workshops for refining the prioirities and measures for Surrey Nature Recovery (LNRS)
- The Annual Biodiversity and Planning Conference 2024
- Review of the Working Groups coordinated by SNP such as the Surrey Parks and Countryside Forum
- Shared information, issues and experience in meetings and site visits
- Dogs in the countryside
- Surrey Rights of Way Improvement Plan
- BNG/ Biodiversity Duty and LNRS
- What’s new for 2025
- New Communications and Engagement Group
- Viability study of reinstating the Nature and Wellbeing Working Group
- Looking at the long term role of the SNP to assess whether the LNRS strategy and actions are helping Surrey’s Nature to recover.
- Annual Biodiversity and Planning Conference 2025 “Policy to Practice: Delivering Nature Recovery” March 25th 9-3pm Dorking Halls.