for the Period Ended 28 February 2023
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Community Interest Report |
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The notes form part of these financial statements
The directors have chosen not to file a copy of the company's profit and loss account.
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 28 February 2023
Basis of measurement and preparation
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We continued the project called Voices of the Dart which commenced in September 2021 and was funded by South West Water. This was a community engagement project in the valley of the River Dart that explored ways for communities to use less water. The context was climate change as changing rainfall patterns, swinging from heavy rains in the winter to drought in the summer, has made our freshwater supplies more precarious. During the period of February to April we ran four community workshops in different locations in order to raise awareness of the likely scenarios of climate change and to discuss ways in which communities can save water. We worked with climate scientists, local radio, artists, ecologists and community groups to engage with data and climate modelling, lived experience, creative expression and design for the future. We asked the question ‘If water could speak, what would it say?’ and the responses collected were presented at a Creative Peninsula Summit at the Eden Project in Cornwall. Overall, we engaged around 26,000 people in the valley of the River Dart and successfully brought community groups into dialogue with South West Water in order to design climate-resilient water futures. The project has its own webpage here: As well as working on the ground in South Devon, BLC is actively involved in promoting the practice of ‘bioregioning’, working collaboratively at the scale of landscapes and systems for climate resilience. As part of the international Regenerative Communities Network BLC, with colleagues in the USA and Columbia, put together and hosted an online event called the Bioregional Regeneration Summit. This brought people working at bioregional scale from around the world together for two weeks in talks, discussions and networking sessions. Participants came from as far afield as the Amazon headwaters, India and the Arctic. Recordings of the sessions can be found here. We researched regenerative finance as it relates to bioregions and wrote a series of blog posts on our findings as a synthesis of our report “Bioregions as a Framework of Value” that is included in the r3.0 Blueprint Series 2019-2022 Blueprint 8: Funding Governance for Systemic Transformation. In the first part of this year, January and February 2023, BLC convened a team of local ecologists, wildlife experts and our harbour authority to start working an Environment Agency funded project to restore the saltmarshes on the River Dart. BLC is project managing this work, which is called Living Dart: the Saltmarsh Project. Our role is to bring community groups into the project and to grow climate literacy around the importance of saltmarshes in our estuary.
All our work is done through consultation and co-design with stakeholders. Stakeholders vary from project to project but are usually the local people who live in the place where we are working. For Voices of the Dart we worked with four communities: Dartmouth, Totnes, Buckfastleigh and Ashburton and collected up the design work on saving water we did with them to feed back to South West Water. For Living Dart: the Saltmarsh Project we are working with communities around the estuary as well as landowners and exploring community science and communities taking responsibility for monitoring the biodiversity of their local saltmarsh.
No remuneration was received
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
31 October 2023
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Isabel Carlisle
Status: Director