Celebrate with LOHP

Its only about a month to go until 'Festival on the Fens' - celebrating 20 years of LOHP.

Join us on Parkers Piece (Mill Road, Thelnetham - opposite Thelnetham Windmill) for this FREE event on Sunday 3rd July, 11am until 4pm to celebrate 20 years of LOHP. There will be rural crafts, stalls, special guest Simon Barnes, music, refreshments, art, sheep dog demonstrations, LOHP guided fen walks, vintage tractors, Thelnetham Windmill (charge for tours), children's activities and much, much more.

You can download the flyer and programme (at the bottom of this page) to send to friends and family.

We look forward to seeing you at 'Festival on the Fens' to help us celebrate 20 years of LOHP.

Festival on the Fens - Flyer and Programme A4.

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Thank you to our Volunteers

During National Volunteering Week 1st-7th June, we try and take our practical conservation volunteers out for the day to visit another local restoration project. This year we visited the Nar Valley in Norfolk, where they have been undertaking an exciting restoration project.

Charles Rangeley-Wilson from the Wild Trout Trust and designer of the project was our guide for the morning. We were told about the history of the rivers and how a lot of the straighter chanels were created when there were lots of mills on the rivers, so that they could manage the water and increase the flows better. This meant that the orginal course of the river became lost over time.

The project looked to reinstate the old course of the river Nar through the valley, in some places it was quite hard to relocate and a new channel had to be created. We saw where natural woody debris - the larger the better - had been placed along the channel to increase the flow; work only finished last year was already florishing. The importance of creating meanders was also discussed and how working with understanding landowners all made for a great project.

The volunteers thoroughly enjoyed an inspiring and informative morning, thanks to Charles's enthusiam, with many planning to come and visit the parts we didn't reach another day.

LOHP at 20!

It has been 20 years since LOHP first got together, two like-minded groups of volunteers realised that they were both managing sites for nature conservation - one on the Norfolk side of the Little Ouse the other on the Suffolk side. They joined together and formed Little Ouse Headwaters Project.

Take a look below at the LOHP at 20! Timeline

LOHP at 20! Timeline.pdf

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and LOHP at 20! A Brief History below to see what we have been up to over the years.

LOHP at 20! A Brief History.pdf

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Why not join us to celebrate our 20 years at 'Festival on the Fens'. To celebrate our work and thank the local community we are planning a celebration event in the summer on Sunday 3rd July, 11am to 4pm, based around Parkers Piece (opposite Thelnetham Windmill). There will be stalls, rural crafts, vintage tractors, art, children’s activities, guided walks, sheep dog demonstrations, refreshments, Thelnetham Windmill will also be open for tours, and much, much more. More details will be coming soon, hope you can join us to celebrate a successful 20 years.