Inclusion Cornwall is proud to be a part of Cornwall National Landscapes (AONB) group.

Environmental Inclusion

The environment provides both opportunities and challenges for inclusion. There is strong evidence to support the positive impact of the natural environment in engaging people of all ages who are marginalised, isolated, have poor mental and/or physical health and low self- esteem. But are we making the most of all our environmental assets to actively promote inclusion, and how do we know?

The ability for everyone to play their part in positive action for environmental sustainability is also an inclusion issue. This might be through: access, the ability to re-use and recycle, access energy-saving and home improvement initiatives, reduce food miles and protect natural habitats.

One of our inclusion walks took place on Monday 9th September. This walk was in partnership with isight Cornwall. For this walk we focused on smell, sound and touch rather than vision. It was such a rewarding experience.

Find out all about our recent walks – the full report is here

Inclusion Cornwall have become a member of the National Landscapes Cornwall Board please find the article written to celebrate our involvement –

IC has been working with Cornwall and Tamar Valley AONB’s to help more people get out into our green and open spaces. Here are some useful links with more information on what is available:-

Organisation	Find out more using the web-link
Cornwall Wildlife Trust	Cornwall Wildlife Trust | Cornwall Wildlife Trust
South West Coastal Paths	Home – South West Coast Path
Sensory Trust	www.sensorytrust.org.uk
disAbility Cornwall	disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Homepage
Hearing Loss Cornwall	Deafness and Hearing Loss – Hearing Loss Cornwall – Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing People in Cornwall
Citizens Advice Cornwall	Citizens Advice Cornwall | Free Advice for the Community
West Devon CVS	West Devon CVS | Supporting Community Action in West Devon
Safe Haven	Home | Safe Haven
Devon Wildlife Trust	Homepage | Devon Wildlife Trust
CAB Devon	Home – Citizens Advice Devon (cabdevon.org.uk)
Voluntary Sector Forum	Community hubs – VSF (cornwallvsf.org)

Inclusion Cornwall’s Activities

Our latest Wild for Happiness Course was a huge success – see the photo’s below and hear some of the comments.

“I’d seen this course advertised last year and was too late to get a place, so made sure I got in touch as soon as I saw it re-advertised; I’m thrilled I was able to do this course. I enjoyed the content of the course, the tasks we were expected to do were explained and demonstrated well. The last session, when we almagulated the skills learnt, was really enjoyable.
The time flew by and will really miss not doing this course. Thank you to Stacey and Maria for being so welcoming, and making the course fun. My interest has definitely been sparked to find out more about using bushcraft skills..“

Working Across Cornwall and Tamar Valley Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty

We are currently working on an exciting project with the Cornwall and Tamar Valley Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is called Landscapes for All – we will be looking at how green and open spaces are used by all.

We are developing a series of sensory walks with the AONB’s – we have trialled one in Coverack. We saw, we smelt, we felt, we listened and we touched. We will be developing other walks this year. So get in touch to get involved. Our sensory walk video can be seen here helping you to develop your own sensory walk. Thanks to John Gilbert for the video.

Inclusion Cornwall Steering Group – March 2021 with a focus on the Environment.

There was a conversation around Carbon Neutral for the Excluded? Notes below:

Cornwall Council’s Carbon Neutral Team are working to ensure all are included in the Green agenda.  Find out more here Carbon Neutral Cornwall.

Carbon Neutral Cornwall made a presentation to the Steering Group:

Notes from the meeting:

Funding Resources Discussed in the Meeting

Climate emergency funds

Climate Action Fund

Cornwall Local Nature Partnership

The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Nature Partnership (LNP) is a Partnership of those who are working to maintain the special and unique environment of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

The LNP considers the environment in its broadest sense and draws expertise from a wide range of sectors, including the environment, health and wellbeing, education, and the economy.  The Partnership has already forged strong links with the economic sector, via the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnerships (CISLEP) and the two Health and Wellbeing Boards in the area.

CIoSLNP has the following guiding principle: The culture, communities and environment of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly remain special and unique.

The CIoSLNP Priorities are:

1. To facilitate agreement on the optimum use of environmental assets to realise their local, national and global potential
2. To build environmental skills, knowledge and understanding to increase the value of the environment in local communities and the economy
3. To connect people, processes and communications to improve decision making, efficacy and behaviours with respect to the environment
4. To grow the natural environment responsibly as a key economic asset, boosting biodiversity and increasing ecosystem goods and services