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ACTIVITY REPORT

October - December 2014

Introduction

Now in its second year ‘Exmoor’s Inspiring Landscapes (Woodlands)’, activity from October to December 2014 is set out in the table below, following the same format as within the Action Plan submitted in the original bid for funding. There are additional elements at the end of the table which pick up uncompleted activity from Year 1, or where activities are continuing into Year 2.

Please refer to the Project spreadsheets which document the figures used within the table below. This is not a cumulative report, aside from the ongoing tally of outputs in column 3 for the whole of Year 2; please refer to previous reports which set out in detail the activity specific to each reporting quarter.

Activity Targets - Year 2 Tally - Year 2 Tally – whole Project

Status and Activity Since Last Report

Review of year 1 activitiesin consultation with the project advisory group and volunteers

1 Write-up will conclude during the next quarter and will include a promotional document summarising the Team’s highlights.

Call for Volunteers Advertise & recruit

Maintain 20+ volunteers to deliver project activities. Aim to recruit at least 8 young people 16-25 to the group.

60 vols signed up

14 under 25s

17 active vols

8 new volunteers were recruited this quarter, 2 of which came via advertising on Exmoor National Park’s website. 1 via West Buckland School advertising our heritage placements. 4 were recruited directly via word of mouth, due to Volunteer Coordinator promoting opportunities in Lynton/Lynmouth/Brendon.

2 volunteer coffee mornings took place this quarter, thanking existing volunteers for their time in 2014 and planning 2015 activities. We had 4 new volunteers attend one of the coffee mornings.

A new volunteer recruitment poster was put together and displayed in the

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National Park Centre, as well as village notice boards and local newsletters.

All volunteering opportunities are now on the new do-it system (national coverage online)

1 new volunteer has come forward to begin a distance heritage placement with us, looking at event promotion and publicity for the project. A young graduate who lives in Essex but keen to gain more work experience.

Regular heritage talk, walk, tour programme with local societies around the theme of Exmoor’s Inspiring Landscapes (woodlands)

24 walks, talks, tours, trails

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214 people attended

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1336 people attended

7 events were organised during this quarter:

6 evening talks under the banner of ‘Evenings@thePavilion’:o Why Exmoor River Matter by Roger Furniss of the Exmoor

Rivers & Streams Groupo Exmoor Coast Revealed – myths, tales and legends by ENPA

Ranger Tim Parisho A Delve Into Exmoor’s Woodlands by ENPA Woodland Officer

Robin Offero Exmoor’s Woodland Heritage by ENPA Archaeology Officer

Rob Wilson-Northo Tales from an Exmoor Hill Farm by local author Victoria

Eveleigho Exmoor Mires Project by Project Officer Morag Angus

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1 guided “Deer Walk in Rut” was run by two ENPA Rangers, leaving from Prayway Head which an astonishing 45 people attended. They were delighted to see two large herds of deer emerging from the mist during their walk.

152 people attended these events.Training for volunteers 15 days of

expert time for training. Specifically 4 sessions per year to train as Heritage Volunteers

2 vol training events. 2 days of expert time.

22 total attendance

10 vol training events

87 total attendance

Oral History training for volunteers has been booked for 21st Jan 2015.

Discover Lichen training in partnership with Plantlife 4th October 2014.

First Aid training on 24th October 2014 for volunteers who are starting up as tour guides/heritage volunteers in 2015.

Planning underway for walking routes in Lynton, Lynmouth, Porlock for heritage volunteers in partnership with Exmoor National Park Authority.

Launch Heritage theme memory challenge

One theme every two months, 10 new responses on average

1 theme

33 responses

2 dedicated volunteers look after the Project’s Your Exmoor section within the National Park Centre and this is where the memory challenge sits at present. During this quarter the theme chosen for the memory challenge was ‘Autumn Glory’, showing a woodland path and mushrooms. Visitors were encouraged to write their memories and experiences of Exmoor’s Autumn on the mushrooms, and place them along the path. 33 responses were pinned to the board.

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In January this area will be augmented with online Pinterest Boards for each memory challenge, for the community to share their memories and photos through social media.

Delivery of heritage challenges with community youth groups

6 weekly sessions (1 day/ week) with 12 young people to explore the theme. Create a temporary exhibition documenting their activities and experiences

The Mosaic Youth Project has identified 2 Young Champions interested in taking forwards a photographic challenge. They will be set the task of inviting other young people to join them in the challenge. The structure of the photographic challenge has been defined now and over Year 2 the Project will support the Young Champions to take it forwards. This will also be in partnership with the University of Plymouth.

Exmoor Young Farmers have taken on the challenge of recording memories and hopes about Exmoor’s Hill Farming across the generations, culminating in an exhibition later in 2015.

2 more challenges, one for the region’s schools and one for the region’s colleges (“Exmoor Uncut” and “Exmoor Revealed”) are set for August 2015, each running for 3 or 4 days. Some places are already filled.

The Ilfracombe Academy is keen to progress this activity strand and discussions are continuing so as to firm up an approach.

In October 2015 the Project will be delivering this challenge in partnership with the National Trust as part of Year 3.

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Temporary exhibition – e.g. Louisa Lifeboat

2000 viewings Relates to the above activity.

Temporary exhibition with West Exmoor Federation (of Year 1 work)

1 exhibition130 school children taking part in exhibition and 1000 visits

3 small exhibitions

Currently in the exhibition calendar to be displayed in March 2015, and to cover their seashore safaris, sculpture workshop, light drawing work as part of the National Big Draw campaign and their Viking re-enactment on Countisbury Hill.

Family Fun day with West Exmoor Federation

Successful delivery of the day300 people attending, 8 seaside safaris, sea shanty show,

An exciting evening took place on December 9th 2014, “Vikings Attack!”. In place of sharing their coastal heritage work, the Project organised a Film Premiere evening showing the two films made of their Viking re-enactment on Countisbury Hill. Two pupils from the Federation read about their Viking experiences before ENPA’s Education Officer dramatically recounted the day’s events to the audience. After the fantastic films (produced by our former ‘Heritage Placement’ student) were shown, everyone then enjoyed Viking-themed food while being entertained by visitors from the national group “The Vikings” who had brought their raven and ‘wolf dogs’. Added into the mix were theatrical stories retold by member of the Stiltskin Theatre Group. All the children then dressed up in the Viking garb and wielded swords for photos! It was a great evening celebrating everyone’s achievements, and the films are now available to view on YouTube.

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Recruitment and training of year 2 volunteer heritage placements

2 x6 week placements and structured training programmeRecruit 2 placements in Yr 2 months 15 & 19And further 2 placements in Yr 2 month 19

One Heritage Placement

8 work experience placements

Targeted meetings continue with regional colleges to raise the profile of this opportunity amongst staff and students.

1 new volunteer has come forward with a view to starting a heritage placement in January 2015.

Temporary exhibitions – Year 2

2 in year 2

30 people taking part in creating exhibitions and 2000 visits

7 exhibitions

4800 people viewing

21 exhibitions

14250 people viewing

5 exhibitions have been displayed during this quarter:

o The Romantic Poets Exhibition continued to be displayed in Porlock during October and November.

o The WW1 community exhibition remains until further notice in St Mary’s Church, Lynton.

o October saw an exhibition of stories from the Hoar Oak Project – about remote farming on Exmoor.

o Exmoor’s Wonderful Woodlands exhibition ran through November, to tie in with the fantastic show of colours in the area.

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o The Dark Starry Skies Community Project displayed some of their lovely responses about Exmoor’s Dark Skies during December – a feast of poems and pictures from schools and community groups, poems and stories from local artists and specially produced art work.

Testing of the mobile App

100 people to trial the app and provide feedback

Waiting for content to be uploaded – audio pieces have been commissioned (capturing both natural and cultural heritage).

Your Exmoor heritage activity day workshops

Target to deliver 14 workshops for year 2 themes; 14 new activities designed;10 people per workshop average;100 creative responses to the heritage generated in

6 events

125 people attended

41 on average per event

28 events

459 people attended

41 on average per event

5 events have been held this quarter, attended by 105 people (21 people on average per event):

o Stained Glass Workshop led by Glorious Glasso The 2-day long event “Living on the Hedge” – making up a component

of our Woodland Explorer Passport activities which ran for the October half term week. These 2 events were delivered by the National Trust as a Project Partner and covered hedgerow foraging.

o Tracks & Trails – an event run in woods atop Lynton by ENPA Ranger and the Project’s Heritage Officer, families learnt about animal tracks, made a bug zoo and examined their finds under the projectable microscope.

o Tales of the Exmoor Coast: a well-supported event where people were invited to come and listen to ‘known’ tales of the coast (myths, legends and stories) and were then asked to heckle, add stories,

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year 2; Volunteers trained to lead

comment and share tales, over mulled wine and a mince pie! 45 people came, some travelling for an hour to be there, and large maps of Exmoor’s coast were scribbled on and annotated with new anecdotes and tales. Plans are now afoot to display the responses to the public during 2015.

Family learning days 8 family days 4 events

187 people attending

31 events

1834 people attending

4 Family Learning Days occurred this quarter:

1. Teddy Bears Picnic at Horner Woods Picnic Area (a National Trust site). This delightful event was aimed at younger children to encourage them out into Exmoor in a gentle and supported way. Various workshops were enjoyed during the day, including storytelling in a cosy bell tent, opportunities to make musical instrument using wood and natural materials (even harps were constructed, fully tensioned!), a drumming workshop and a small fire with hot chocolates and marshmallows. With the picnic blankets and bunting, teddy bears and children in fancy dress it was a colourful and inspiring day!

2. The Project Team and volunteers took part in the Big Adventure Day at Webbers Post, taking along the projectable microscope. In addition to the usual mini-beast hunt, the team ran 3 other games during the day for families to take part in:

o Leaf rubbing – with Autumn coloured paper and metallic

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crayons, people chose lovely veined Autumn leaves to rub. We were surprised how many people had never actually done this before!

o Connect with a tree – people were taken off to a large tree nearby and asked to take a few minutes looking at it, its bark, the tops of its branches, and then were asked to write down one word which described how they felt about the tree. This was surprisingly popular and people of all ages seemed to really value the opportunity to take a bit time to consider a tree. The resulting words will be put together into a poem for display.

o Bug Eye Rope Walk – using two ‘bug view’ eye scopes covering their eyes, people walked along a looping rope trail on the ground. If they managed it without peeping then they won a small prize. Hugely popular and more difficult than it sounds!

3. Heddon Valley Fun Day was run by the National Trust, a Project Partner, offering a variety of wildlife activities (badge making, bug zoos, colouring and guided walks)

4. Spooky Walk at Wimbleball Lake. Run in partnership with the South West Lakes Trust, lots of activities were enjoyed by families, including facepainting, lantern making, bat-ring making, lavender broomstick

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making, spells and potions in a self-made pot, wicker wand making. Families then all headed out on a spooky trail through the woods, visiting 9 different spooky stations, collecting letters and clues from giant pumpkins to make the name of a woodland creature. The trail included real bat-sounds from recorded bats, a street performer gargoyle, a cauldron which all the children stirred magic ingredients into, a woven wicker penyatta full of Somerset and Devon apples as well as glowing ghosts strung in the trees! It was an amazing event full of fun and exploration.

For the whole October half term week the Project ran the Woodland Passport scheme, where families could collect stickers for each participating event and 3 stickers or more won them a prize. 200 passports were handed out during the week, and partners included the National Trust, South West Lakes Trust, Exmoor National Park and The Crown Estate. Three families came forwards to claim a prize at the end of the week. One family arrived at the start of the half term and used the passport to work their way through the different events all week, proving that it worked well as a promotional tool. Although 200 passports were handed out, we have not included that within the total figures for the quarter as we cannot confirm how many people actually attended the events as a result of the passports.

Taster sessions for new audiences

8 per year (more on

1 session 19 sessions No taster sessions were run during this quarter

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request)

40 people visiting

Production of 12 pieces of content

55 people attending 552 people

attending

Visitor days 12 visitor activity days ; Advertised by 20 local businesses

12 events

269 people attended

8 businesses involved

25 events 5 events were organised linked to local businesses, to which 175 people came:

1 Moor Music Session took place during November, led by Umber Music

2 Stained Glass Workshops were held with Glorious Glass The planetarium dome came for 2 full days, once at Lynton Town Hall

and again at Lee Abbey, attracting a total of nearly 150 people ranging in age from a few months to 79. This was run by Space Odyssey and attracted 4 educational establishments while it was here. Its aim was to educate, interpret and celebrate Exmoor’s Dark Starry Skies, being an International Dark Sky Reserve.

Deliver Local Interpreter sessions

4 sessions per year to develop 20 local

3 Local Heritage Interpreters

None delivered this quarter, but planning under way for next quarter and discussions have been had with volunteers at volunteer meetings.

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heritage champions, tour guides and walk leaders.

trained, now leading guided walks

3 specific sessions training sessions (1 Walk Leader, 1 Heritage Interpretation, 1 shoreline-guide)

A training day booked for 6th March 2015 for heritage champions and a day out to be organised in April 2015 to visit Exeter and meet city tour guides/trail makers.

Delivery of rolling programme of heritage workshops for West Exmoor Federation

Fortnightly Exmoor heritage sessions Primary school children (approx 130) to attend at least one session over

1 Vikings Attack! evening

22 children attended with families and teachers

1 Viking/Anglo Saxon costume and battle day, attended by 53 children

1 amazing in-situ re-enactment of Hubba the

22 children from the West Exmoor Federation and their families attended the celebration evening “Vikings Attack!” and enjoyed more Viking heritage interpretation by visiting experts.

In discussion with the Federation to develop a woodland guide for children by children, in collaboration with Ilfracombe Academy and connected with the mobile App. There is some interest in an outing to the woods to learn about the traditional practice of charcoal burning together with an archaeological exploration of an old charcoal site. These will continue to be developed with the schools.

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the year.

Production of a young person’s woodlands guide, temporary exhibition and hedgerow ‘cookbook’

Dane attacking Countisbury Hill, fully costumed and scripted

74 children engaged in total since project start

2 mini-films

1 slideshow

3 temporary exhibitions

Combe Martin Sea School will be developing a shore guide by children for children, considering the different shore life along Exmoor’s coast (from Porlock in the East to Combe Martin in the West), during Spring 2015.

Heritage Open Day Events (1 per year; need to catch-up on undelivered Year 1 event)

500 people attending over the weekend;

0 0 None delivered during this quarter.

The Lee Abbey estate will be opening up their woodlands and parts of the Abbey itself during May 2015 with guided walks, as a Heritage Open Day, but not linked to the national scheme.

The Woolhanger Estate near Parracombe are also progressing plans to hold an Open Day during 2015, showing people around their stunning music room

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and lakeside walks, with guides and a cream tea!

Heritage AV production with College students

1 audio-visual production.

8 short films The two Viking videos are now uploaded onto Youtube.

Filming has taken place this quarter to capture the change in Exmoor’s woodlands from Summer through Autumn to Winter using a time lapse video camera. A volunteer has been leading on this and we look forward to seeing the final edit during the next quarter for display to the public.

North Devon Schools and College Challenge (landscape photography competition.)

250 entries ; a successful dynamic poster

2 competitions 2 competitions 2 competitions have spanned this quarter:

Exmoor Bunting Competition, an idea designed by a Project Volunteer who has personally promoted it to all Exmoor schools. Closing date was end November 2014 and 36 entries were received. Judging and production of the bunting will commence during the next quarter.

In partnership with PlantLife the Project is funding the prizes for the Wonderful Woodlands photographic competition, deadline end of January 2015, exhibition of winners and award ceremony is set for April 2015.

Ilfracombe Academy are keen to be involved in a landscape photography competition as well and discussions will continue with them in January.

Community events for Exmoor residents

Aim for 3 events each year ; 20 people

2 events 6 events None delivered during this quarter as the Autumn ‘The Way We Used To Be’ reminiscence event (usually run by our Heritage Ambassador) was merged

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attending on average per event; inviting people to discuss around a heritage theme and view new content

87 people attended

217 people attended

with the ‘Tales of Exmoor Coast’ event on 22nd November.

Locals were keen to discuss tales of Exmoor winters and so our Heritage Ambassador is working to an end of February date so as to capture these stories, share photos and memories.

Deliver 8 Education days schools across wider Exmoor to attend a field studies day to access and use Your Exmoor heritage content, and to help develop an online resource for schools as part

1 online resource being developed

13 education sessions

343 children

The Lyn Education Resource continues to be developed. Filming and recording audio took place this quarter.

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of the project. 5 different schools/colleges attending + 100 children

Deliver 2 Educator days/ mini-conference

2 days in year 2

30 educators overall

Identify curriculum and learning content for 3 learning packs based on the 3 yearly heritage themes

0 6 educator events

None delivered during this quarter

Learning packs exist in the form of Tracker Packs, containing education material specific to the coast theme from Year 1 and the woodland theme from year 2.

Deliver local business information days

2

10 local businesses attending

0 6 business information days

175 people attended

None delivered during this quarter

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(average of 29 people per event)

Mystery heritage trail (geocache) – from year 1

1 0.5 A heritage trail is hardwired into the mobile App

Iconic heritage campaign -from year 1

Target 1000 votes ; 10 distinct heritage items selected; Exhibited July 2014

0 0 An excellent meeting was held with local experts in social media to draw up a good media campaign for the voting stage of the Icon Campaign. During the discussions a completely new approach to the Icon Campaign was developed. This will be carried forward during 2015 with much more impact and public engagement than previously envisaged.

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Additional Outputs

Not included within the Action Plan above are additional outputs which are recorded in the Outputs spreadsheet, namely:

Activity Targets (Year 2)

Tally Year 2

Status

Audio-visual productions 3 overall 3 2 Viking Films now available on youtube.

1 film capturing the evening talk by Exmoor Rivers and Streams Group about why Exmoor Rivers Matter.

A film sequencing Exmoor turning to Autumn was captured this quarter, and is being edited for display during the next quarter.

Digital ‘stories’ – responses to Exmoor as part of the Your Exmoor Project (young person’s, children’s, family and visitor content)

100 73 30 leaf rubbings, 10 ‘feeling’ words about a tree, 33 responses about Autumn to the Your Exmoor wall of the National Park Centre

Outreach No specific target

Meetings with:

West Exmoor Federation Combe Martin Sea School Ilfracombe Academy National Trust ENPA Woodlands Team Lyn & Exmoor Museum

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Activity Targets (Year 2)

Tally Year 2

Status

Launch and Celebration events No specific target

3 events126 people attending

Dark Starry Skies celebration event with presentation by Rosetta Project, samba band and refreshments, attracting 70 people

Vikings Attack! (see above) Christmas celebration event with Project Volunteers with mince pies, tea and coffee plus

a slide show thanking them for all their support over 2014!

Children involved/represented/engaged through Project activities

No specific target

390 From September to end December 2014

Members of the public involved/engaged through Project activities

No specific target

6333 From September to end December 2014

Summary

This has been a period for planning events through 2015 and the Project Team are excited by the strong activities set to be delivered.

Highlights definitely include the raven and wolf dogs at the Vikings Attack! evening, and the Dark Starry Skies exhibition and celebration event at the beginning of December.

The October Woodlands Passport scheme showed great promise for future years, and the events during that half term week were good fun and engaged a good number of visitors in Exmoor’s heritage. We particularly loved the Teddy Bears Picnic and Spooky Walk events!

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Discussions with new partners, Ilfracombe Academy, Combe Martin Sea School and organisers of the Exmoor Flag campaign are very encouraging and we hope these will blossom over the coming months to deliver some exciting work for the Project.

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