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Cornwall Rivers Project Steering Group
Meeting __________________________________________
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______ 1st July 2005 - Arundell Arms Hotel,
Lifton
Gillian Dixon
Westcountry Rivers Trust Projects Manager
Westcountry Rivers Trust
Registered Charity No. 1045806
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CORNWALL RIVERS PROJECT phase II
Outline

• Phase II
• Personnel
• PR
• Financial performance
• Management Plans
• Physical Targets
• GIS

• Community
• Demonstration sites
• Angling 2000
• Education
• Future plans

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CRP PHASE II

• Timescale - 1st Jan to end December 2005
• Budget - additional money
• New catchments
• Targets
• cumulative with phase I
• less restrictive
• 200 plans
• 5 new businesses (A2000 achieved)
• 10,000ha land covered by soil management advice
• 2 newsletters
• 20 community talks
• Accessible website
• 150 vocational course trainees
• Target women in the community (gt1/3)

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CRP PERSONNEL

• GD overall manager
• LC AD Education / Vocational Training
• MH A2000 RC Senior Advisor
• AC GIS LM Accounts
• New advisors
• Training

• Giles Rickard Dee Medlicott Justin
  Bartley

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CRP PR

• Updated image
• Web site
• New leaflet new catchments
• 2 newsletters
• Shows pull up stands
• Royal Cornwall
• Devon County
• Smallholders Fayre at Pencarrow
• Press releases
• Adverts - South West Farmer

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CRP FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

• Budget
• Additional 688,712
• 2/3 Remaining
• Need to re-profile
• Difficulties
• slow to get on farms change to SFP impact on
  budget
• Capital spend catching up

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CRP MANAGEMENT PLANS
Completed Target (end June)
Full plans 49 52
Mini plans 38 52
Visits 97 104

• Target 200 visits / written plans
• 100 Full plans
• 100 mini plans
• By September / December
• Area of coverage
• 4,148 / 10,000ha

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CRP PHYSICAL TARGETS
Target Completed Completed Contracted Cumulative with phase 1 targets achievements
Fencing 35 km 3.3 km 9 46 Target 135 km Actual 134.1 km
Diverters / culverts / interceptors 5 1 20 40 Target 19 Actual 15
Erosion controls 20 2 10 25 Target 86 Actual 68
Casting areas 30 21 70 0 Target 50 Actual 80
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CRP GIS

• Quality checking CRP phase 1
• Digitised new rivers
• Adding farm boundaries both phases
• Adding physical works
• Inputting new farms and data

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CRP COMMUNITY

• River Walk Schedule
• Seaton Hessenford LNR
• Maramchurch, demo site
• White River
• Demonstration sites
• Still one to complete
• Folders
• Talks
• WNFU, CWT Parish Wildlife Group, Cornwall College

21 July 28 July 4 August
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ANGLING 2000

• 5 new beats in 2005
• 27 mi of river fishing 8 ac of lake fishing
• 1920 anglers on the A2000 database
• Approx 10 of these purchase tokens
• Over 200 new Trust members opted to receive 5
  free tokens as their welcome
• Over 3230 tokens (including above) sold so far
  this year
• Angling 2000 has been deemed by some to be the
  third largest game angling scheme in Great
  Britain
• Some good catches of brown trout on middle
  Torridge beats with excellent mayfly hatches.
  Fine catches of brownies and grayling from the
  Inny.

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CRP EDUCATION

• SCHOOLS VISITS SHOWS
• 4 schools/college activity visits
• 3 days at the Royal Cornwall Show
• 1 Countryside day
• Assistance with 1 educational pack

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CRP EDUCATION

• VOCATIONAL COURSES
• Pond design, creation management
• Freshwater invertebrate identification
  monitoring
• Water resource management
• Nutrient management
• SO FAR
• 9 courses run
• 58 attendees from a variety of backgrounds and
  with several basic interests (24 women)
• ALSO
• Links with SW Tourism

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FUTURE PLANS

• Farmer forum bid
• Educational development
• Sea fisheries
• Economics of angling
• VI framework bid
• A2000

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Thank you for taking the time to oversee CRP
Westcountry Rivers Trust
10 Exeter Street, Launceston, Cornwall. PL15 9EQ
Tel [phone]
Registered Charity No. 1045806