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River Stewardship Company

Maintaining the river for riparian landowners whilst training volunteers and apprentices is how the River Stewardship Company realise their vision of more engaged communities and a healthier river.

Helen Batt talks us through their focus on income generation and enterprise, how they scaled the project and their exciting business improvement district work in which 250 business are involved.

River Stewardship Company

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Working at Shared Assets, we come across many inspiring land-based social and community enterprises. This site presents some of the most successful and ambitious examples of community land management in the UK. Keep browsing to learn from their work. In previous research, Shared Assets learnt that many community groups or social enterprises that manage land value peer…

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Building partnerships. Working with local authorities. Generating income. Communicating vision. These are some of the skills it takes to build a successful land based social enterprise. Our profiles highlight the strengths of different organisations, so that the sector as a whole can learn what works. Look through the curated key issues below to learn from others’ strengths,…

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