Two Wigeon (Anas penelope) drakes walking on frozen flooded marshland in winter sunshine, Greylake RSPB reserve, Somerset Levels, UK, January. - Nick Upton/2020VISION
Our Partners
The Bay are lucky enough to have four fantastic organisations leading the project - The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, The Eden Project, Cumbria Wildlife Trust and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.
The programme brings together Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s award winning Myplace wellbeing programme, the Wildlife Trusts’ Living Seas coastal engagement experts, the bold vision of the Eden Project, Cumbria Wildlife Trust, and Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust seeking the maximum benefit for people and nature, in our fight for recovery from the pandemic.
The Bay will capitalise on the huge national public interest as Eden Project North is created in Morecambe Bay, a unique moment in time to drive powerful momentum. The envisioned scale is part of the innovation addressing a climate, an ecological and a mental health crisis. Creating a scaled up whole population approach, the project will provide interventions supporting reduced loneliness and isolation, and improved health and wellbeing across our communities as we seek a recovery pathway from Covid19. Our Blueprint for Recovery will be promoted nationally.
Ducks and waders feeding on mudflats, Morecambe Bay - Peter Cairns/Northshots
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside
Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s award winning Myplace wellbeing programme has provided the stepping off point for The Bay, which is using the expertise from Myplace staff and volunteers - building new pathways with social prescribers and the NHS, as well as progression routes for participants moving between interventions and into wider community engagement opportunities.
Eden Project Communities
Eden Project
Eden Project will lead hub development directly in Morecambe, building pathways into long-term engagement through the Eden Project North development. With a focus on training, Eden Project will lead the Traineeships, building links with education establishments and academia and through the Morecambe Bay Curriculum.
Seals basking on the shore by Gemma de Gouveia
Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Cumbria Wildlife Trust (CWT) will lead hub delivery in dispersed coastal communities across south Cumbria. As the lead for Living Seas North West, CWT will bring specialist community engagement techniques, and marine and coastal knowledge across The Bay area, that will help people connect to and understand the natural marine environment of Morecambe Bay.
Retired couple sitting on bench, enjoying the view at Arne, (RSPB) Nature Reserve, Dorset, UK. September 2011. (Model released). - Ross Hoddinott/2020VISION
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Focusing strongly on prevention and improving mental health and wellbeing in partnership with communities, local government and other agencies, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are providing their knowledge of referral pathways and mental health care to the project.