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Cornwall Community Flood Forum have now started community engagement with the first six communities identified as gaining the most benefit from maximising resilience to, and protection from, increasing storm events and coastal flooding.  The sessions will enable us to support communities to produce CRABs (Community Resilience Action Briefs) identifying priorities and how we can use…

The first meeting to discuss a new volunteer group for Summerleaze Dunes took place on Wednesday 28th February. It was great to see the meeting room at the Parkhouse Centre in Bude completely full of people who had come to find out what it’s all about and how they might get involved! Once Rob Uhlig,…

The Friends of Fistral Dunes volunteer group have run various volunteer sessions in the dunes over the last four years, to help this site which gets an extremely high number of visitors. Not only is this a busy place, but there are sometimes issues with bonfires, barbecues, camping and litter in the dunes, which can…

We’ve been working in the dunes at Constantine Bay again, this time supporting Beach Guardian and their volunteers with removal of some Hebe plants from the dunes. The Hebe species growing at Porthcothan is probably a garden escape originally, either dumped in garden waste or maybe seeds were moved from a garden by a bird…

The Making Space for Sand team were delighted to support the yearly, Cornwall Wildlife Trust – Your Shore, event on Saturday 3rd February at the Lost Gardens of Heligan as a partner project. The event was organised by the very capable Katie Bellman, Project Lead for Your Shore who made sure everything went smoothly including…

MS4S has recently supplied a variety of hand tools and a battery-powered brushcutter to the volunteer group ‘Friends of Par Beach’. The group have previously carried out lots of work to reduce the amount of invasive species growing in the dunes at Par, which usually means lots of cutting and digging, in order to remove…

MS4S supported Beach Guardian at Constantine Bay on Sunday 14th January, when around 150 volunteers dragged, dug and part-buried 250 ‘retired’ Christmas trees. The trees have been placed in a particular area that is prone to erosion, where they will act as a windbreak, causing sand to build up around them while they decay. As…

MS4S supported Widemouth Task force and Cormac on Saturday the 6th January to put used Christmas trees in Widemouth dunes. The trees will act as a natural windbreak, trapping sand and creating a more favourable environment where dune plants can establish themselves to bind the sediment together. The event was led and organised by Widemouth…

This week we successfully delivered our project’s first volunteer task, supporting Beach Guardian with removal of some Japanese Rose (Rosa rugosa) from the sand dunes at Porthcothan. This rose is from eastern Asia and was first introduced to the UK around 150-200 years ago as an ornamental plant. Once in UK gardens, it then ‘escaped’…