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  • Nature Recovery: Tony Juniper and Jake Fiennes discuss nature recovery with BBC’s Joe Crowley

    Nature Recovery: Tony Juniper and Jake Fiennes discuss nature recovery with BBC’s Joe Crowley

    We’re delighted to be able to share this discussion in which the BBC’s Joe Crowley expertly questioned Jake Fiennes and Tony Juniper CBE about the biodiversity crisis, and what – if anything – can be done to help nature to recover. The UK population is growing; we need food, water and more housing, and all…

  • Daphne Astor – an inspiration

    Daphne Astor – an inspiration

    It hardly seems fair that this wonderful woman who encouraged us only a few months ago as we put our first festival together was not around to enjoy it. We chatted to Daphne at the last event of Sea Fever in May 2003, though she had met Charles at the chalk streams conference in Cambridge.…

  • Creativity and mental health

    Creativity and mental health

    It seems rather gloomy to describe creativity in medical terms. We’ve been hearing such a lot about mental health for a while now that – on the good side – we hope we now have an environment in which people can feel freer and more confident to open up about their secret struggles without worrying…

  • Schools’ poetry competition 2024

    Schools’ poetry competition 2024

    Our poetry competition is in full swing – open to all schools in North Norfolk. We want to hear what our local children have to say about the landscape and wildlife which surround them in this rural coastal strip. Here is our invitation: The competition started when our festival was called Poetry-next-the-sea back in the…

  • This would be the perfect setting for…

    This would be the perfect setting for…

    ….a grim discovery? some significant item lost? a betrayal witnessed? a secret tryst? inner turmoil? a reconciliation? Which dramatic moment would you locate in which of these settings? Photographs © Patrick Rangeley What is it about a place? It might be vast and open – a marsh, clifftop or expanse of sea – or small…