Today a new initiative for soil health is launching at Cereals 2018. Scientists, academics, industry farm advisers and farming bodies have come together to take a long-term approach to understanding and improving the health of soils across UK farmland for generations to come. The National Trust is partnering in the initiative, and here we take…
Earlier this year, a report by the Sustainable Food Trust revealed that the UK’s network of small local abattoirs is near collapse. In this blog, Neil Johnson, one of our Food and Farming Advisors, takes a look at how Brexit could exacerbate this continuing trend towards anonymised, mass production of meat in the UK. How…
In 1907, an Act of Parliament set up the National Trust ‘for the benefit of the nation’. A century on, we’re thinking about what this means and how we can play our part in civil society today. This week, we responded to the Government’s wide ranging consultation on its Civil Society Strategy. In this blog…
Today we’re at the Chelsea Flower Show to highlight the plight of the UK’s mighty oak tree. We’re there as a partner in the new Action Oak campaign – so what’s it all about? Yesterday a major new campaign was launched to protect the UK’s oak trees from threats like pests and diseases. The Action Oak…
Good news as the latest draft of London’s Environment Strategy ticks most of the boxes in our Greener London manifesto. Last week Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, presented his Environment Strategy to the London Assembly for consideration before final publication in the coming weeks. The strategy sets out a vision for London’s environment in 2050,…
New polling for Conservative think tank Bright Blue reveals the public’s top environmental priorities and highlights strong agreement across our society for both tackling and leading on climate change. In this guest blog, Philip Box, Researcher at Bright Blue and National Trust volunteer, takes a look at the results. With both the Queen and Sir…
In this blog, Public Policy Officer Matt Williams takes a look at the new government consultation an Environmental Principles and Governance Bill. And does some reading between the lines… In mid-March we looked ahead to what a new watchdog might need to be like in order to protect our environment after Brexit. Yesterday, we learned…
