Our Upland Commons Sub-Projects
These are grouped by four themes:
A1: Stronger Together
Through My Eyes involves stakeholders in turn showing the others how a common works from their perspective and will happen on all 12 sites.
A2: Shared Spaces
Shared Spaces covers refurbishment work to the commoning infrastructure (on eight commons), much of which has not been replaced in the last fifty years due to lack of funds.
A3: Sharing the Benefit
Sharing the Benefit brings four further commons into Our Common Cause to complete a stakeholder engagement and Visioning process and so that they can benefit from project activities such as training, Common Practice notes and other information sharing.
B1: Hill Livestock Health
Hill Livestock Health (on six commons) will look at how Commoners’ Associations can tackle the considerable challenge of managing livestock health on shared sites.
B2: Schemes and Skills
Schemes and Skills (on all twelve commons) will give commoners the knowledge and confidence to develop Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS) ready for when the new agricultural funding programmes open to applications in 2024.
B3: Resilience Fund
Resilience Fund is a modest internal fund for the Project to support Commons Associations and community organisations on matters specific to their common.
C1: Enjoy
Enjoy is the interpretive element of the project (on all twelve commons) at a national and local level. It includes a lively digital diary – an online film and photography-based blog – which as well as being entertaining will also help promote some of the learning outputs of the project.
D1: Carbon
Carbon (on three commons) will develop a Hill Farm Carbon Footprint Calculator to appraise how commoning and hill farming emits and sequesters carbon.
D2: Historic Environment
Heritage (on eight commons) will investigate, repair and promote the care of a variety of historic structures.
D5: Biodiversity
Biodiversity (on ten commons) will involve specialists, local citizen scientists, and commoners in survey and monitoring work to identify and implement the management needs of endangered birds, butterflies and moths.