Welcome to the summer edition of the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project newsletter

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the summer edition of the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project newsletter.

This year promises to be the busiest year in the project’s history with restoration schemes, education programmes, a packed events schedule, and our citizen science initiatives all featuring heavily in the work programme. When so much is going on it is sometimes easy to forget to take a step back occasionally to reflect on our achievements and those of others. This is why it has been nice recently to take the time to recognise the massive contribution that citizen scientists make to monitoring the health of our chalk streams.

Though it may not feel much like summer at the moment the CCSP’s summer events programme is in full swing and there are plenty of opportunities in the months ahead to take a guided chalk stream walk or to get involved in river activities over the coming months.

This year we have an ambitious programme of five river restoration projects. We have already made a start with three and you can find out more about them here.

Our education team have been busy in schools across the Chilterns, delivering our Trout in the Classroom project and river school programme. In total they have delivered more than 25 sessions so far including working with our partners the Ver Valley Society to provide chalk stream education sessions for schools along the R. Ver.

Our work to restore a section of the Hamble Brook is really beginning to look very good now that it is maturing. We are so pleased with how it has turned out; we’ve made a film about it. We hope you enjoy it!

Very best wishes,

The Chilterns Chalk Streams Project Team