What a day yesterday was. If you missed it, check out the party which happened over on Instagram. The support and shout outs and sharing of the links to the new episodes dropped was unbelievable. …
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Podcast Sensation
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Searching for Purple
During these difficult times of Coronavirus and Black Lives Matter uprisings, with normal being normal no longer, keeping myself on an even keel has been difficult at times. Walking out, almost like mediating, has been …
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Thriving With Nature
The Mental Health Foundation, for which I was planning on running the Great North Run 2020 for ( but now postponed to 2021) found through a long-term study, Coronavirus: Mental Health in the Pandemic, that …
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International Women’s Day Walk and Write
International Women’s Day, this year on Sunday 8 March, see us working with Northumberland National Park to facilitate a special walk for women up to Steel Rigg. We’re going to use our time in the …
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National Parks failing to attract a diverse audience
A recent article publishing in the huffington post details a recent report completed which starkly lays bare the failure of national parks in attracting diverse groups of people. The author, of the government report published …
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The Autumn Season – SHEROES
With the leaves beginning to fall, September to October saw the SHEROES return to Rainton Meadows, County Durham to work with Durham Wildlife Trust again. Around a series of themes and topics, the group of …
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Radio 4 Farming Today Feature
Although it wasn’t planned but because of difficult circumstances, the last outing of this year’s programmed events happened to be recorded by the BBC. Walking with the SHEROES were the engagement officer from NNAP, Mandy …
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Nature as an anchor
Hiranya De Alwis Jayasinghe was one of the women who completed the Lowland Leadership Program this year. You can find out more about her here. We were lucky enough to get Hiranya to write for …
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Black Women’s Leadership Program – Assessment
The assessment, the final test for the Lowland Leader Expedition qualification, came around far too quickly for my liking. Another few months of practice would have done me right. But the dates were set, 18-20 …
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Black Women’s Leadership Program – Trial Expedition
As part of our Lowland Expedition Leadership training, we had to go camping for three days and two nights. During this time period, we had to put all that we’d learnt throughout the past few …
