Yorkshire Derwent Partnership

“Habitats are connected, people are connected, activities are connected”


The Derwent Partnership brings together people from local communities, landowners, businesses and other organisations to decide how the River Derwent, the rivers and streams flowing into the Derwent and the land adjacent to them can be managed for the interests of wildlife, habitats and people.


The Partnership is hosted by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. with East Yorkshire Rivers Trust as co-host. However, to deliver the many improvements that are needed in the catchment we need to work in collaboration with other stakeholders who have an interest in the River Derwent and its surrounding landscape. An Interim Steering Group was established in 2013 to help improve the catchment and includes representatives from the following organisations:

  • Country Land and Business Association;

  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council;

  • East Yorkshire Rivers Trust;

  • Environment Agency;

  • Forestry Commission;

  • Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty;

  • National Farmers Union;

  • Natural England;

  • North York Moors National Park Authority;

  • North Yorkshire County Council;

  • Ryedale District Council;

  • Scarborough Borough Council;

  • Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

Catchment partnerships look at the water environment in terms of all the ecosystems services connected to a healthy catchment and aim for better integration of planning and activities to deliver multiple benefits. So, as well as helping to deliver improvements in water quality, a key requirement of the Water Framework Directive, the catchment based approach also provides a platform for engagement, discussion and decisions of much wider benefit, including tackling diffuse agricultural and urban pollution, habitat improvements and widespread, historical alterations to the natural form of channels.

Find out more about the Catchment Based Approach www.catchmentbasedapproach.org

We want to hear from you too. If you have 5 minutes to spare, please complete our questionnaire and tell us what changes you think are needed in the Derwent catchment to help create a healthier water environment and an improved landscape.

 

“Habitats are connected, people are connected, activities are connected”

(note to Ryan: can we include the CaBA logo somehow to the right of the title please ie. River Derwent Catchment Partnership – I couldn’t get it to format properly here!)

The Derwent Partnership brings together people from local communities, landowners, businesses and other organisations to decide how the River Derwent, the rivers and streams flowing into the Derwent and the land adjacent to them can be managed for the interests of wildlife, habitats and people.

The Partnership is co-hosted by the East Yorkshire Rivers Trust and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. However, to deliver the many improvements that are needed in the catchment we need to work in collaboration with other stakeholders who have an interest in the River Derwent and its surrounding landscape. An Interim Steering Group was established in 2013 to help improve the catchment and includes representatives from the following organisations:

- Country Land and Business Association;

- East Riding of Yorkshire Council;

- East Yorkshire Rivers Trust;

- Environment Agency;

- Forestry Commission;

- Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty;

- National Farmers Union;

- Natural England;

- North York Moors National Park Authority;

- North Yorkshire County Council;

- Ryedale District Council;

- Scarborough Borough Council;

- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

We want to hear from you too. If you have 5 minutes to spare, please complete [K1] our questionnaire and tell us what changes you think are needed in the Derwent catchment to help create a healthier water environment and an improved landscape.

[K1]Note: this links to the survey that is currently on the website which would be good to keep.