Fellfoot Forward future fair

Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme

Future Fair

The Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme is working with Cumbria Action for Sustainability to deliver the Future Fair part of the scheme.

What do we mean by Future Fair?

Climate change and how we respond locally and globally will affect the security and impact of everything we invest in through the Fellfoot Forward Landscape Partnership Scheme. The scheme will ensure that the opportunities for action on climate change deliver positive outcomes which underpin activity on heritage. It is the ‘golden thread’ of sustainability, which ensures that the Fellfoot Forward scheme is delivered with maximum positive impact and with greater security.

How are we implementing this?

We want to assist farmers, landowners and communities in the scheme area to implement long-term carbon reduction and leave a legacy that is fair and sustainable for the next generation. To help implement this, we have developed a series of checklists to support Fellfoot Forward community and environment grant applicants as well as events managers to consider what efforts they would be making to ensure Future Fair deliver”. We ask them to consider their current emissions, review their supply chains, and how they source materials.

The aim is that the Fellfoot Forward scheme will support engagement with the local community and implement changes to land management that will conserve and benefit biodiversity, enhance and connect habitats for wildlife, improve carbon sequestration, reduce erosion, and reduce CO2 emissions. Across the Landscape Partnership Scheme, we have developed Future Fair checklists for:

Transport
Suppliers
Food, Catering and Waste
Festivals
Art and Creative installations
Biodiversity and Wildlife
Heritage Buildings and Monuments
Volunteers and Young People

It is challenging, and the idea isn’t to make delivery so onerous that communities and partners can’t implement realistic, achievable, and meaningful changes. It is more about raising awareness at the planning stage, looking at alternatives, and being pragmatic in our approach. Decisions are made based on many factors – cost, availability, local supply chains, long standing procurement contracts, and capacity in the workforce to implement change.

It may not be possible to change everything immediately – but collectively we are moving in the right direction.