Drew Bennellick
@drewbennellick.bsky.social
Head of Land, Sea & Nature Policy UK at National Lottery Heritage Fund. Nature Towns & Cities, Landscape Connections, nature recovery and diversity. My own views 🇬🇧
Want to come and work with me at the National Lottery Heritage Fund? We’re looking for a Policy Project Manager to work across heritage policy including nature and communities. Deadline 23 Nov. heritagefund.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Want to come and work with me at the National Lottery Heritage Fund? We’re looking for a Policy Project Manager to work across heritage policy including nature and communities. Deadline 23 Nov. heritagefund.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
National Lottery Heritage Fund is looking for a Committee Member for our Midlands and East Committee. Deadline 7 December. We are looking for someone with landscape and nature expertise to help us make decisions on grants between £250k and £5m. heritagefund.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
November 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
National Lottery Heritage Fund is looking for a Committee Member for our Midlands and East Committee. Deadline 7 December. We are looking for someone with landscape and nature expertise to help us make decisions on grants between £250k and £5m. heritagefund.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/v...
New Carbon Garden at Kew Gardens - worth a visit - simple interpretation, clear messaging and nice pavilion
July 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New Carbon Garden at Kew Gardens - worth a visit - simple interpretation, clear messaging and nice pavilion
Excited to announce this new Landscape Connections project today! www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/scotlan...
June 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Excited to announce this new Landscape Connections project today! www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/scotlan...
Met members of Peakland Environmental Farmers and Swaledale & Wensleydale Environmental Farmers this week with @heritagefunduk Trustee Julian Glover. Supported with some grant funding they plan to work collaboratively across nearly 200 farms to help nature recover.
May 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Met members of Peakland Environmental Farmers and Swaledale & Wensleydale Environmental Farmers this week with @heritagefunduk Trustee Julian Glover. Supported with some grant funding they plan to work collaboratively across nearly 200 farms to help nature recover.
Audley End, Saffron Walden dating from 1831. William Sawrey Gilpin parterre “Gilpin obliged with a parterre garden stretching out towards the Temple of Concord and composed of 170 geometric flower beds crisply cut from the turf - no yew hedges, no clipped box.” @englishheritage.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Audley End, Saffron Walden dating from 1831. William Sawrey Gilpin parterre “Gilpin obliged with a parterre garden stretching out towards the Temple of Concord and composed of 170 geometric flower beds crisply cut from the turf - no yew hedges, no clipped box.” @englishheritage.bsky.social
Beautiful afternoon to visit the newly completed restoration works at Greenwich Park supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social. Avenue planting, 1661 Grand Ascent reinstated, view point refurbished and new education garden. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
April 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Beautiful afternoon to visit the newly completed restoration works at Greenwich Park supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social. Avenue planting, 1661 Grand Ascent reinstated, view point refurbished and new education garden. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Magnolia stellata ‘roses’. Stunning.
March 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Magnolia stellata ‘roses’. Stunning.
Good to see this MHCLG report published. “Integrating parks and green spaces into the strategic vision and core strategies of the local authority underpins successful practices”. Learning from Heritage Fund supported Future Parks project in LB Islington. 👍 www.gov.uk/government/p...
March 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Good to see this MHCLG report published. “Integrating parks and green spaces into the strategic vision and core strategies of the local authority underpins successful practices”. Learning from Heritage Fund supported Future Parks project in LB Islington. 👍 www.gov.uk/government/p...
Thank you Lord Tony Hall and all the team at the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Nature for the tour last night. Fantastic resource as below. Do visit! @nhm-london.bsky.social www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...
February 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Thank you Lord Tony Hall and all the team at the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Nature for the tour last night. Fantastic resource as below. Do visit! @nhm-london.bsky.social www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/ce...
A few of the Heritage Fund supported jobs on @countrysidejobs.bsky.social today
February 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A few of the Heritage Fund supported jobs on @countrysidejobs.bsky.social today
FIRNS is currently open for applications. A launch webinar will be held on Monday 17th of February 2025. @naturescot.bsky.social and Heritage Fund supported. www.nature.scot/funding-and-...
February 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
FIRNS is currently open for applications. A launch webinar will be held on Monday 17th of February 2025. @naturescot.bsky.social and Heritage Fund supported. www.nature.scot/funding-and-...
Good news. £2.9m awarded to Green Action Trust Scotland to support the rejuvenation of the Leven valley into an accessible and biodiverse park that brings Levenmouth’s social and economic heritage to life. www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/fifes-r...
February 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Good news. £2.9m awarded to Green Action Trust Scotland to support the rejuvenation of the Leven valley into an accessible and biodiverse park that brings Levenmouth’s social and economic heritage to life. www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/fifes-r...
Day spent in Cuckmere @southdownsnp.bsky.social talking National Parks, National Landscapes, salt marsh, funding, planning, devolution, LNRS and nature recovery. Thanks @sionmcgeever.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Day spent in Cuckmere @southdownsnp.bsky.social talking National Parks, National Landscapes, salt marsh, funding, planning, devolution, LNRS and nature recovery. Thanks @sionmcgeever.bsky.social
Job with @rspbengland.bsky.social working as a project manager jobs.theguardian.com/job/9451687/...
February 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Job with @rspbengland.bsky.social working as a project manager jobs.theguardian.com/job/9451687/...
#NationalWetlandsDay and #NationalYorkshirePuddingDay all in one day. Wetland this morning followed by Yorkshires later.
February 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
#NationalWetlandsDay and #NationalYorkshirePuddingDay all in one day. Wetland this morning followed by Yorkshires later.
Packed house tonight for Woodland Trust parliamentary reception led by Chair Lord Hall and Defra Baroness Hayman
January 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Packed house tonight for Woodland Trust parliamentary reception led by Chair Lord Hall and Defra Baroness Hayman
@anjanakhatwa.bsky.social nice to see you again on BBC Antiques Roadshow tonight! Lovely piece well worth repeating! 👏
January 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@anjanakhatwa.bsky.social nice to see you again on BBC Antiques Roadshow tonight! Lovely piece well worth repeating! 👏
Winter afternoon at RHS Wisley
January 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Winter afternoon at RHS Wisley
Second Westminster birthday party today. 70th anniversary of the Women’s Institute passing a resolution to @KeepBritainTidy or rather “protect the countryside from desecration by litter”. Good to hear @MaryCreagh_ talk passionately about deposit return schemes.
December 11, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Second Westminster birthday party today. 70th anniversary of the Women’s Institute passing a resolution to @KeepBritainTidy or rather “protect the countryside from desecration by litter”. Good to hear @MaryCreagh_ talk passionately about deposit return schemes.
Loving these Royal Mail stamps. Celebration of the UK’s arachnids.
December 11, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Loving these Royal Mail stamps. Celebration of the UK’s arachnids.
Lovely to see and meet so many passionate advocates for our brilliant National Parks, National Landscapes and National Trails at today’s event in the House of Lords.
December 11, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Lovely to see and meet so many passionate advocates for our brilliant National Parks, National Landscapes and National Trails at today’s event in the House of Lords.
Another Derbyshire beauty - Mediaeval Haddon Hall
December 2, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Another Derbyshire beauty - Mediaeval Haddon Hall
Chatsworth House Derbyshire @peakdistrict.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Chatsworth House Derbyshire @peakdistrict.bsky.social
Green energy now re-powering Arkwrights Cromford Mill - the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed in 1771. Sorry to miss you @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social but bought a nice log basket😉
November 29, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Green energy now re-powering Arkwrights Cromford Mill - the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed in 1771. Sorry to miss you @jimdixonwriter.bsky.social but bought a nice log basket😉