We’d like to invite you to sign up for our winter season of free talks featuring a variety of subjects to inform residents, visitors, nature and landscape lovers alike.

‘Eden Stories’ are a collection of online talks, created as part of the ‘Access to Eden’ partnership; A four year £2.6 million partnership project funded with a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, working to provide more access to the River Eden and wider catchment for more people.

Sign up to hear about Swimming Feats, Iron Teeth and to find out just What Lies Beneath. You’ll receive links to attend every ‘Eden Story’ and provided with access to recordings for those that you are unable to attend on the day.

Julia Aglionby and Kirsty Hollings get this underway for us on Wednesday 30^th October as they recount their epic 80 mile swim from Source to Sea; from Mallerstang to the Solway. The feat has left a lasting legacy and sown the seeds for a bigger challenge ahead, to address pollution in the River Eden.

In our November talk, Joe Clements, assistant conservation manager with Lowther Estates, provides the inside story about the Estates ground-breaking regenerative land management scheme employing nature’s iron toothed water engineers. It will be a timely talk following the happy arrival of two beaver kits at the site this summer, four years since the pair of Eurasian beavers, Glen and Dragonfly, were introduced at the site in a licensed, enclosed scientific release.

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The talks are 40 minutes long and followed by a short Q&A session where you will have the opportunity to have your questions answered. The Winter Webinars series of talks are part of the Access to Eden: breaking barriers, building bridges partnership led by Eden Rivers Trust with a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.