Decision makers, supporters, funders, partners celebrated 10 years of success with a morning of presentations and discussion and an afternoon site visit to the idyllic Local Nature Reserve Byron’s Pool near Grantchester.

You can read the programme and download the presentations by clicking on the links on the right-hand side. 

We also used the opportunity to launch the partnership's small project grants and to communicate the partnership´s vision to the audience. Participants fed back into the vision through a questionnaire and the vision paper has since been updated.


In the afternoon, a guided tour round Byron’s Pool, a Cambridge Local Nature Reserve, rounded off the celebration. Delegates met a group of volunteers working on the reserve with Ellis Selway, Community Reserves Officer for Cambridge City and Iain Webb, City Greenways Project, before enjoying birthday cake, tea and coffee together. Byron’s Pool features biodiversity on the ground. Different habitats are close to each other – a woodland with several springs, ponds and a small marsh and wet meadow area which are managed for biodiversity benefits by the volunteers.

We had picked a beautiful day and over 50 partners met at the celebration, using the opportunity to network and to learn more about the Partnership. The day was a great success and was well received and enjoyed by partners and guests.