It’s time to come together for #TheBigBuzz

 Submitted by Jody Ferguson 23rd Sept 2022



As part of The Big Buzz Conference & Fringe, Cumbria Wildlife Trust is inviting you and your family to a day of activity at Gosling Sike, Houghton, Carlisle. Join us for discovering moths, ponds dipping, nature walks, stories with Frogg, nursery & seed bank tour and wildlife gardening workshops. This event is free. Booking is required for some activities. 


The Big Buzz! National Pollinator Conference & Fringe 2022 is the UK’s biggest gathering of pollinator enthusiasts and professionals, organised and hosted by the Get Cumbria Buzzing! pollinators project -  a Cumbria Local Nature Partnership project, coordinated and led by Cumbria Wildlife Trust.

It will highlight projects and communities that are making a tangible impact on the ground; projects and people that are giving our pollinators a better chance of not just hanging on, but thriving. 

The state of pollinators in 2022...where next & what can we do?

Concern about the decline in pollinator species is constantly in the news, and people are worried. It seems a picture of doom and gloom, but this nationally important conference & fringe gives way to some hope.

The Big Buzz! National Pollinator Conference on 23 September, in Carlisle, will dive into the world of pollinator decline and look for solutions. It will seek agreement about how we proceed forward at our community level, stakeholder level and higher. You'll have the opportunity to understand the issues, and develop your own solutions to the problems.

This will be the first in person, large scale, pollinator gathering since the pandemic. Our conference host - the University of Cumbria - is making sure it's a safe and secure environment.  We warmly invite you to a reunion of friends & colleagues - old and new - to share, learn and work together.

The main session of the conference will be streamed LIVE if you cant' make it in person. 

The Big Buzz! Conference programme

brampton road campus

23 September daytime, at the University of Cumbria’s Brampton Road Campus, Carlisle:

Talks & interactive workshops

Get informed by our wonderful Keynote Speakers and inspired by great case studies from pollinator projects across the UK.  We need to collectively build a new approach to understanding the issues surrounding pollinator recovery,  Speakers will be followed by workshops and case studies allowing you to develop your own take-away action plans.

Conference programme

8.45 Registration Opens
9.15 Welcome from Cumbria Wildlife Trust
9.20 Opening Brigit Strawbridge
9.30 Key Note Speaker 1 - Jeff Ollerton (Live stream) "What does climate change mean for pollinators and pollination?"
10.15 A choice of workshops
Workshop 1 Mark Schofield “Transforming road verges, for wildlife, for climate, for us”
Workshop 2 Graham Jackson-Pitt and Tanya St Pierre  “Pollinator Projects in Cumbria”
Workshop 3 Jacqui Cottam and Karen Harper "The Bee Team at Heron Hill Primary – Bonkers About Bees"
10.45 Break
11.10 Key Note Speaker 2 - Jim Jeffrey (Live stream) "Scotland's Pollinator Strategy 2007-2017"
11.55
Workshop 4 Lynne Bates "Scottish Wildlife Trust's Nectar Network"
Workshop 5 Emma Lansdell (Live stream) "The experiences and lessons learnt so far from Kent's Plan Bee"
Workshop 6 Paul Evans (Live stream) "Developing and turning multi-partner pollinator recovery plans into action"
12.30 Key Note Speaker 3 Stephen Elderkin and Chloe O’Hare “‘A connected country, a thriving environment’”
13.10 Lunch
14.10 Key Note Speaker 4 - Morag McCraken “Pollinators and agri-environment schemes - the results from a four year survey”
14.55
Workshop 7 Ellen Lamborn & Richard Dawson “Taking Part in the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme”
Workshop 8 Martin Harvey and Gordon Port "Becoming a citizen scientist: wildlife recording and the North East Bee Hunt"
Workshop 9 Jamie Robins "Policy Impacts on Pollinators - a Discussion"
15.30 Key Note Speaker 5 - Dave Goulson “Saving our Insects”
16.10 Brigit Strawbridge - Plenary
16.30 Afternoon Refreshments 
17.00 – 19.00 Cash bar and snacks
19.00 – 20.30 Wild Live

So, don’t delay! Reacquaint yourself with what is happening in the world of pollinators across the UK. Develop and gain new ideas and insights about how you can make the difference. 

The conference is now fully booked but you can still attend the conference online through an a virtual ticket which will give you access to a live-stream, The workshops will be recorded and made available after the conference too.

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