World Heritage & Climate Action webinar – # 2

Number 2 in a series of 4 webinar talks, showcasing some of the UK’s World Heritage Sites and their work in tackling the impacts of climate change.

Date – Tuesday 18th February 2025

World Heritage Site – Studley Royal & Fountains Abbey

Speakers – the National Trust’s Sarah France and Josie Campbell, speaking about on their Skell Project and how this is working towards reducing flooding at the WHS.

Sarah and Josie have spent many years working with Nidderdale National Landscape to develop the Skell Valley Project and the National Lottery Heritage Fund bid for a £1.4m grant. The project brings together partners, farmers, landowners and communities to work together to tackle challenges like climate change and create a sustainable future for the World Heritage Site and wider Skell Valley. After 6 years in development, the project is now in its final year of delivery.

Skell Valley Project │ Yorkshire | National Trust

Sarah France is World Heritage Coordinator at Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal WHS and has worked for the National Trust for almost 15 years. Before that Sarah spent almost 20 years working in planning and heritage for National Parks across the UK. Her current role is to coordinate delivery of the World Heritage Management Plan and that has included a whole variety of projects from leading on the buffer zone for the WHS, to reinstating the lost statue of the Dying Gladiator in the Studley Royal water gardens.

Josie Campbell has worked on various projects for the National Trust over the past 10 years ranging from Arts Council funded installations in Studley Royal Water Garden to dredging reservoirs and water features. She is delighted to be working in partnership with Nidderdale National Landscape as Heritage Officer for the Skell Valley Project currently.

Picture – Sarah and Josie running the Great North Run in 2022 to raise money for the Skell Valley Project

Webinars run 7 to 8pm, and are held on Zoom. Zoom details usually sent out latest the day before the webinar.

Single webinar tickets are £5 each. A series ticket for all 4 webinars is £15. Tickets are available up to 4pm the day before.

Each webinar is recorded and uploaded to WHUK’s private YouTube channel. All ticket holders will be sent a link to the video, to revisit or catch up if the live talk was missed.

More details on this webinar to follow. Webinars been and still to come include:

• Tuesday 21st January – Roxanne Andersen from The Flow Country WHS (YouTube recording)
• Tuesday 11th March – Jenny Bruce and Yann Grandigard from Edinburgh World Heritage
• Tuesday 15th April – Mairi Lock, WHS Coordinator at the English Lake District WHS

Image: National Trust