[Music begins whilst text reads 'Shedding Light on Nature: Have Your Say! Derbyshire County Council Local Nature Recovery Strategy Public Engagement Programme, February to March 2025' with the Derbyshire County Council logo. The music then slows like a vinyl slowing down then picks back up as the S.H.E.D. logo appears.]
[Rapping plays over video footage of workers set up the S.H.E.D. outdoors]
Rapping:
The forest gets destroyed and the harbours take their place, replacing ocean rivers with the rush of taxis, the air gets hotter and the grass doesn't grow who am I to ask but I really want to know, the earth is dying now but we trying to save this planet and save our souls, let's come together and join our hands stand up for our way, our mother nature's grace.
[Rapping quietens and continues in the background whilst Harry Freestone, Designing Dialogue CIC S.H.E.D. Public Engagement begins to speak]
Harry Freestone, Designing Dialogue CIC S.H.E.D. Public Engagement:
We're in Killamarsh today, we're talking about nature and trying to get the public's response on different surveys and research that a lot of really important people have been doing in this area and especially Derbyshire.
Dr Miles Watkis, Chair of the Derbyshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy:
I think the approach that the sheds bring to the consultation exercise is just completely different, it can be quite dull for people to meet in church halls and the like just to talk about relatively dry subjects but to find a diverse way to engage, um all different age ranges in a completely different manner is just really important. We've worked very hard on this project to hear from the professionals but it's really the public we want to hear from that's where the value is, what do people want to see? How do they want to feel engaged with the natural environment? Innovating how we do that engagement to find those things out is really important.
Councillor Carolyn Renwick, Cabinet Member, Infrastructure and Environment:
I think it's really important to see um people connect with nature locally, uh, I think for me it's helping people to understand what's in their back garden and the nature that already thrives and exists and, I think for me hopefully the, uh, mapping that we've done will show you where nature is and I want to encourage more people to engage with it whether it's nature walks, whether it's mindfulness walks, whether it's understanding what's in your local woods and forests even in your urban areas there's nature around us all over the place and I think the more that we understand what's there I think we'll appreciate it we will respect it and we'll try and help it thrive.
Iaian Stafford, Heartwood Community Forest:
So within the Killamarsh area we will would like to be able to plant more trees and connect with local land owners so if anyone would like to go to the Derbyshire County Council's web page and then connect onto the Heartwood scheme, from there we can then make connections between ourselves and be able to provide free trees and all the infrastructure that goes with it to a certain extent within the local area.
Harry Freestone:
S.H.E.D is touring at five different locations we're at the first one today in Killamarsh, we then got another four locations so Bakewell, Glossop, Swadlincote and the Arboretum Park in Derby city centre.
Callum Bate, University of Derby Civic Operations Officer:
So we're currently at Bakewell Agricultural Business Centre and we're just here to talk to the public about nature, see what is important to them about their local area, see what concerns they have and sort of see if there's any trends or themes that match other locations that we've been to as part of this tour. So there is a survey there's a local nature recovery survey where people can comment on what's important to them, what they might prioritise in terms of nature and also there's sort of like chances for them to give more sort of open feedback, and then we're also just taking note of the conversations we have cause they can be as important as people filling in the survey so what people are saying to us verbatim, what themes there might be and if there's anything really key that comes up across the conversations that we have through a day so that we can also feed that back into the strategy.
Adrian Rose, Azoriecafe Niche Food and Drink Distribution:
Yeah well actually what's been impressive is you picked a good market to come to because I guess most of the people who come to Bakewell are very much outdoor people, appreciate local nature local hillsides and the woodland and, uh, a lot of people walk here they don't actually drive here, so actually I think you've hit the nail on the head and what a great way of networking and gathering information promoting, as a community.
Callum Bate:
I guess it's really nice to see the different perspectives like what I've noticed from the previous location to today has just been the slight difference in what people are focused on, what people are interested in, but then still that they care about nature, that they want to see change and that they want it to be something that works for all is quite interesting as well so it's nice to feel the differences but the connection in purpose between the places that we've been to and I think that's what's important about the tour and about what we're doing, is trying to make those connections as well as seeing what might be different.
Dr Rhiannon Jones, Associate Professor Civic Practice:
So we're in Derby Arboretum Park today and behind me you can see we have got Jam from Baby People who's been delivering a nature connected workshop for us, he's been working with our National Saturday Club from the University of Derby and they are focusing on society and change as a theme this year, so what they've been doing this morning is really thinking about their relationship with nature, using the park as a way to think about the sights the smells, thinking of what their own individual connection is to nature and to the park which is a local park for them.
Dr Carly Butler, University of Derby Researcher in Nature Connectedness:
Earlier Dr Chris Barnes who's a civic champion from the University of Derby and also part of the nature connectedness research group, he ran a session with the young people explaining about what nature connection is about why our relationship with nature matters and different ways of really strengthening that relationship and ran some activities, so they did some sky bathing enjoying the sky and enjoying the sounds of nature around them and then looking for interesting bits of nature that they could find in the park, just you know on their doorstep, to start to enjoy and and explore that.
Alfred, National Saturday Club: Society and Change Member:
We had a box and we were getting tons of items and also we were lying down for a couple of minutes just to look at the sky and um enjoying the nature cause nature is more important than you think.
Jasmine, National Saturday Club: Society and Change Member:
So we were cloud watching and all collecting all these cool things in little boxes and we found this giant bit of bark that got a picture taken off.
Aditi, National Saturday Club: Society and Change Member:
Today we've been recording the sounds of nature writing rap lyrics and now we are going to record them. So our team is nature so I wrote about global warming and how the forests are getting destroyed and everything. So one of them that I wrote is (rapping) the earth's getting hotter and the grass doesn't grow, who am I to ask but I really want to know.
Jasmine:
(rapping) you're harming the environment you know it isn't right, you've been told this time and time again so why put up a fight.
Alfred:
(rapping) people will litter, cut down trees, take squirrels lives, humans are thieves.
Jasmine:
It did make me think that I should be a bit more outside more cause lately just with school and life and everything I've been like boxed up in my room more and I need to take more time outside like I used to.
Alfred:
Yeah I used to do tons of nature stuff like forest camp stuff and scouts when I was younger and I kind of left it cause of school and I was just staying inside playing games, but I feel like now I should do more about nature because one day it might go away.
Alix Manning-Jones, Designing Dialogue CIC Stakeholder:
I think S.H.E.D is a really innovative opportunity to engage communities from across the county and city in terms of nature and connecting with nature but really looking at how consultation can be a way in which it becomes an experience. I think consultation that we've always seen but in a traditional way actually doesn't really engage some of the communities that actually we really need to be hearing from, and I think what S.H.E.D does is it gives that opportunity to really engage in a very different way, it makes it accessible it's inclusive, it's innovative, and more importantly it's creative so the richness of those conversations that come out with you know through those communities actually are incredibly important for any type of consultation and I think what we've seen here is that it can be done in so many different ways to be able to inspire conversations but also to ensure that there is some curiosity around whatever the subject might be and I think being out today it's beautiful, it's sunny, we're in a park, there's so many families here, but it's also really intergenerational, so we've been having conversations from little tiny tots all the way up to um you know 80/90 year olds that are just enjoying the park and enjoying the space today.
Child:
So there's windmills in the distance with Derby but there's less houses cause it helps the environment, and there's a field with bikes and scooters cause if you were using diesel cars it would hurt the environment. I would like more parks and derby.
Chloe Donegan, National Saturday Club: Society and Change Club Manager:
We've came here and been around the S.H.E.D. and looked at all the activities and artwork which has been great, had a talk from Em and Chris from the FamilyHub did some activities so we have been looking at nature. we've been collecting things and, looking at sounds and then we've had a session with Jam from Baby People so he's been working with young people going out into nature and doing some sound recordings, and then the other group have been doing some song lyric writing and that's all based around their ideas and themes of nature.
Amy, Teacher at Chellaston Junior School:
So we ran the art competition across the whole school and then 600 children actually went an submitted and then 50 are on display, so I said that I've come down and we were looking the children's artwork on display, get some photos and to inspire some children. They have come down today and they are so into nature and obsessed with it and they will just talk for hours on hours it's really good that response with regards to nature the world they live.
[Rapping]
Rapper 1:
Go join me and reach for the sky, help all the animals save their lives, before you do this look into my eyes, look into my eyes.
Rapper 2:
The world's off balance climate started to shift there's flooding around the world and the temperature lit the beauty of the earth is getting wrecked help save the planet please.
[Music quietens whilst Jordan Carr, S.H.E.D DCCLNRS Project speaks]
Jordan Carr, S.H.E.D DCCLNRS Project:
Today we're at Sharp's Pottery Museum in Swadlincote where we are doing our last of our series of public engagements for Derbyshire County Council's local nature recovery strategy. People are the trustees aren't they, they're not the overlords they are the trustees, and we've gone to different locations we've tried to spread out as much as possible because Derbyshire is huge and yeah it's about people and that's why we're engaging with them, from different backgrounds different you know demographics - people are what make it, sounds quite cliched but it is true um you know the strategy may change, people come and go, but it's the generations, it's the people that pick up where others have left off, it's the next generation. A lot of the conversations not from here but also with Glossop which is quite recent so I can remember quite well was um you know, parents with their toddlers, and a lot of what came out again it's they're the next generation, they're coming up you know... after today after the end of what we say the public consultation with the CIC S.H.E.D, it will be an evaluation session where we'll come back and report on many of our findings and conversations, feedback on that, feedback on the strategy, what they've said about the strategy, but also what they've said about, you know, not everyone's read the strategy in its entirety, some have not read it at all, you know, so just giving feedback on that. Following that there is going to, we're going to write a report which again will cover a lot of what we've spoke about in with people in the various locations we've been to.
Dr Carly Butler:
So in terms of local nature recovery it's really important that people are involved in that and part of that, because people are crucial to any recovery of nature that we have, we know that nature is really important to a lot of people's lives but not everyone has opportunity to access that, so this kind of work is really important because in designing the strategy and how we're going to start to recover nature we need the conversations with the public to see what matters to them, why nature matters to them. Had some amazing conversations this morning with a with a young boy who was so enthusiastic about nature and ants and the birds that he'd seen and with so much enthusiasm and also a really strong awareness of what was and wasn't able to be seen in Derby you know what kind of wildlife is around so it was you know it's great to see how much it mattered to people and what they care about.
Dr Rhiannon Jones:
Yeah I think it's really important that we make sure that we're truly engaging with communities that are maybe unheard and don't often get invited to take part in those conversations, so for us it's really important to be talking with the different stakeholder groups absolutely, but what's really unique about the approach we're taking through the work of S.H.E.D is we're also engaging with groups that maybe aren't always invited to have a space at that table to give their views on what's important about nature, what are the barriers for them with how they can engage with nature on a day-to-day basis, and also like Carly said just hearing the stories about lived experiences of all from all sorts of people that we're meeting on this tour has just been really eye opening and actually really informative then for thinking about um delivery of the drafted strategy as well.
[Rap music fades]
Rappers:
Same voices sing the same song and we'll make...
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