For a thriving countryside that benefits everyone

Another beautiful entry to our photo competition. -Thanks to Barrie Smith for sending this in - "A walk amongst the sunflowers".

Don't forget to send us your "Happy Days in Somerset" photos by 31st August. https://tinyurl.com/4yh47hbb

#sunflowers #somerset #countryside

You’re never too old to do your bit!
Meet Lena Pennick, aged 91.5 - our newest #2minutelitterpick #volunteer . Here she is out for an evening stroll with her walker, cleaning up her little bit of #Somerset.

Speak up? - we wish we could!
Big thanks to @LevellerC for highlighting the problems that we - and members of the public - face when wishing to have our say against developments at @SedgemoorDC planning committee.

https://levellerconfidential.substack.com/

Another wonderful entry for our 2022 photo competition - Hide and Seek in #Somerset by Dinah Whitehead.

Send your entries by 31st August to win a £100 prize. https://tinyurl.com/4yh47hbb

#wheatfield #farming #deer

Going for gold - meet Carrie, one of our youngest #2minutelitterpick #volunteers, and read her story of a year of litterpicking in #Somerset for her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award @somersetDofE @DofE

https://tinyurl.com/5n8wy3vt

#plasticpollution #litter #recycling

Jump to it! Get your "Happy Days in Somerset" photo competition entries in by 31st August. Two £100 prizes - adults and under 18s. https://tinyurl.com/4yh47hbb

Thanks to Rachel Hensman for this pic: Jumping for Joy

#Somerset #Dragonfly

NEW Ski yoghurt! NEW Kia-Ora orange drink!
Actually they are decades old but sadly still hanging around, polluting our seas. Check out more vintage litter finds of @beachcomber50 https://tinyurl.com/3zs38nc8

#plasticpollution #PlasticFreeJuly @LFCSSomerset

great article in @LevellerC explaining the importance of nutrient neutrality here in Somerset and how it affects what gets built where https://levellerconfidential.substack.com/p/leveller-confidential-22?r=1j2eqn&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Another day, another tree swing. Well, it's the lovely one at @ciderbrandy again but it's a different view - and there is a dog this time!

"Taking in the view" by Loretta O'Grady

Send us your photos by 31st August and you might win £100!
https://tinyurl.com/4yh47hbb

Inspired by our rope swing tweet a couple of days ago, Kelly de Silva sent us this wonderfully evocative photo called "A Somerset Christmas"
#Somerset folks will recognise the location as Burrow Hill , home of @ciderbrandy

Keep sending us your photos https://tinyurl.com/4yh47hbb

Ross Alexander of @MomentPHOT0 tells us what he will be looking for as he gets ready to judge our Happy Days in Somerset photo competition. Get your entries in by 31st August.

https://tinyurl.com/3jtphrus

Hooray for random rope swings found in the woods! A great way to cool off. #heatwave

Thanks to Nick Thorne for this wonderful entry to our "Happy Days in #Somerset" #photography competition.

Keep sending your entries - there are two £100 prizes! https://tinyurl.com/4yh47hbb

Someone just got a nice surprise! Congratulations to Henry Best, our latest lucky lottery winner.

To take part in our monthly lottery and support our work for the #Somerset #countryside, go to https://tinyurl.com/v4unsjew

Photo: Boo by Maryanne Weatherley