Governance & Finance
Working as part of the Great North Bog coalition, the regional partnerships and teams can deliver much more than they could alone.
The achievements of individual partnerships can be amplified when working together – jointly securing resources, sharing skills and expertise, restoring peatlands through collaborative projects, and providing a clearer and more coherent single voice to Government, agencies, regulators, potential funders and the public.
Financing the Great North Bog
The Great North Bog (GNB) is a UK landscape scale initiative supported by six leading peat restoration partnerships who have a combined 80+ years of experience of restoring the most degraded upland landscapes in Europe. There is now an opportunity for private sector partners to support environmental restoration at scale and purchase voluntary carbon emission reductions using a nationally recognised carbon metric.
The GNB team have prepared a detailed specification, which explains what we are trying to achieve, and a process for responding through an expression of interest.
Our Strategic Plan
The mission of the Great North Bog coalition is to restore all northern England’s remaining degraded upland peatlands by 2040 – sooner if we can.
The Strategic Plan sets out how we will work together to achieve this mission, by:
- increasing the pace and scale of restoration
- raising awareness of the importance of peatlands and the benefits they provide
- increasing skills and capacity for staff and contractors
- improving the evidence base for peatland restoration and conservation
- raising the necessary resources and further diversify income streams