Who: The Bumblebee Conservation Trust
The brief: Engaging with under-represented communities along the Carmarthenshire coastline, around bumblebee species and habitat conservation.
What I did: Along with my project partner Eva Trier, we proposed and delivered a 5-month project that included stakeholder mapping, stakeholder interviews (gathering information about activties in the region especially from other environmental NGOs), and community engagement events in partnership with local third sector organisations (like the Llanelli Railway Goods Shed and Links Mental Health).
What they said: “The report is so useful, it’s feeding into the new project proposal for the follow-on phase. It’s valuable to have contacts in the area in the relationships you’ve made, and we will be keeping in contact with them for the next phase of work.We’ve also shared your report in the Bumblebee Conservation Trust across the UK: the findings are feeding into other areas as well, around working with communities. We really liked your proposal and we’re pleased that we appointed you, everything you produced including the report is brilliant and exactly what we wanted. Absolute pleasure working with you.”

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