The Crown Estate

🦫 Please welcome our new, furry residents at Rushden Lakes!🦫   A family of eight beavers are busy making their new home at the Nene Wetlands for the first time in 400 years! This is the first beaver release project on Crown Estate land and is slightly unusual as the beavers have been released on the doorstep of Rushden Lakes shopping centre. We hope the millions of visitors each year, as well as local residents and businesses, will take the opportunity to learn more about the incredible impact these amazing creatures can have on the local environment, landscape and ecology. A big thank you to the The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire team for all their fantastic efforts over the past four years to make this a reality! 👏 We can’t wait to see the beavers hard at work once they’ve settled in, and you can too, by keeping an eye on the trail cameras on the Wildlife Trust Website👷♂️ #TheCrownEstate #Wildlife #Nature

📢 Continuing our Supply Chain Accelerator spotlight! 📢     This week is all about anchoring and mooring systems for #offshore wind. With nearly £5 million in funding from the #SupplyChain accelerator, the acceleration of these projects aims to support the sector's growth.   Stay tuned as we continue to feature more of the organisations in the coming weeks!   👉 Find out more about our Supply Chain Accelerator here: https://lnkd.in/eYvSuAay #TheCrownEstate Gabriel Engineering Group Hutchinson TARDRA

📰 Tune in! 📰   Anthropy UK are opening the markets at the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday to launch Anthropy25 before announcing the agenda for this year’s national gathering in March. As a corporate member of Anthropy, we can’t wait to see the full schedule of fascinating speakers and session topics.   Make sure you join the live stream this Wednesday at 7:55am!

🎧Listen to today’s episode of Farming Today to hear how we’re using new leases to help our tenant farmers remain resilient and successful whilst supporting nature recovery 🎧 Our MD for Windsor & Rural, Paul Sedgwick, explains how we’ve worked closely with farmers to create new Environmental Farm Business Tenancies to help them navigate some of the challenges facing the sector today. Find out more from Paul and farmer Simon Phillips here: https://lnkd.in/eyNHMFST #Farming #TheCrownEstate

Balancing the needs of energy, food security, nature and coastal communities is important when thinking about the future of our seabed. Last week, we welcomed experts from the fisheries space for an in-depth and open discussion, providing an opportunity to build on collaborative partnerships and support the delivery of the best outcomes for the nation.   Collaboration on our data and evidence is vital in meeting our long-term ambitions for net zero, nature recovery and thriving communities. During the event, fisheries representatives gave their perspective to support the development of our Marine Delivery Routemap, a holistic and long-term view of how the seabed is used.

🌊 Yesterday our Marine Delivery Routemap Director, Jamie Moore, presented at the Coastal Futures Conference 🌊   Jamie shared insight into our Marine Delivery Routemap, sparking interesting panel discussions about the opportunities and potential trade-offs that this collaborative initiative aims to showcase.   Working with partners and stakeholders, our Routemap will develop a long-term strategy for delivery in the marine space. You can find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eHSitm5h Ocean and Coastal Futures (OCF) #Marine #TheCrownEstate

📢 Meet the first group of organisations set to share nearly £5m in #funding from our innovative Supply Chain Accelerator.   This is the first in a series of posts over the next few weeks shining a spotlight on these organisations, so look out for more!   This funding will help kick-start pioneering #SupplyChain projects that service the #offshore wind sector, including those enabling:   💨 Floating wind platforms 💨 Anchoring and mooring systems 💨 Operations and maintenance facilities 💨 Test facilities 💨 The skills transition   Find out more about the Supply Chain Accelerator project here: https://lnkd.in/eYvSuAay Celtic Sea Power Nerth Ltd Tugdock #Sustainability #TheCrownEstate

Great to have been a part of the launch of The AgriWellbeing Alliance, a newly formed coalition made up of Mates in Mind, National Association of Agricultural Contractors, Agrii, IOSH Rural Industries Group, Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies), and The Farming Community Network. The goal of The AgriWellbeing Alliance is to collaborate with rural landowners, farming families, mental health organisations, agricultural contractors, agricultural advisors and all those that go through the farm gate to raise awareness, reduce stigma and promote access to essential mental health support services. You can find out more here: https://lnkd.in/ejKK88C9

🌊 Data boost for growth of UK’s tidal #energy industry 🌊   Environmental survey data collected as part of the Menter Môn Morlais Ltd tidal stream scheme in North Wales is to be made publicly available on The Crown Estate’s Marine Data Exchange (MDE)!   The data covers bird and marine mammal monitoring and has been collected during the Marine Characterisation Research Project, which The Crown Estate has co-funded.   The MDE is a world-leading collection of marine industry survey data which aims to encourage #collaboration and innovation, supporting efforts to develop the seabed sustainably whilst protecting the UK’s #marine environment.   Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eikZTnz5   #Tidal #Renewables #EnergyTransition #TheCrownEstate

Yesterday we hosted a Parliamentary reception sponsored by Chair of Peers for the Planet Rt Hon Baroness Hayman to unveil our Nature Recovery Ambition update. With a keynote address from Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP, the event was a great opportunity to bring together policymakers and experts from across a range of sectors to discuss the action we’re taking to deliver on our biodiversity goal.    At the reception we announced a number of measures to support these targets, including doubling the funding to support farmers in improving nature recovery through our Rural Environment Fund to £20m and restoring or creating 25 waterbodies and wetlands across the Windsor Estate by 2030 to provide wildlife rich habitats, as well as actions for marine & coastal and urban & built environments. We’ve set clear goals across out business to support nature recovery, and the targets published in today’s update demonstrate our commitment to being accountable. Find out more about the Nature Recovery Ambition update here: https://lnkd.in/e96sq9NX