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28th November - all welcome

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We are the countryside charity

We’re passionate about making the countryside a better place for everyone to live, work and enjoy.

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What we care about

We want to connect people to the countryside, wherever they live.

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Join our lottery club

Buy a lottery ticket and support our charity

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Building better places – event plus our AGM

Book now for our event looking at how to design better places

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2024 photo competition – our winners

Renewable energy

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Farmland under siege from solar

A summary of the lively debate at this SOSLevels event

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Latest news

Renewable energy

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Farmland under siege from solar

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2024 photo competition – our winners

Events

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Building better places – event plus our AGM

What gets built and where

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Will new housing targets actually fix our housing crisis?

volunteering

Somerset

Volunteer – your time, your way

Cleaner countryside

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Our litter project gets a boost with a generous donation from SUEZ

What gets built and where

Somerset

We win our legal action to protect coastal path from bad development

What gets built and where

Somerset

Rural housing: a cash cow running wild?

Renewable energy

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Solar power plants in our countryside

Landscapes

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Restoring Somerset’s historic signposts

Cleaner countryside - our litter project

Join our #2minute litterpick project

Can you spare 2 minutes to clean up your countryside?

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Our litter project gets a boost with a generous donation from SUEZ

Recycling contractor has donated 60 litterpicking kits for our volunteers

We’re helping Marine Conservation Society to track sources of ocean litter

We are recording different types of litter as part of national project

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Our young litter superstars

Students at schools around Somerset have been cleaning up their local area as part of their Duke of Edinburgh Awards

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Sponsor a litterpicking kit for just £20

A £20 donation will provide a litterpicking kit for one of our volunteers

A hi-vis vest, a litterpicking stick, a pair of gloves and a branded bag laid out on grass