 The OnTrent Forum 13th May 2008. National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham.
The OnTrent Forum is a conference where many of the groups and organisations not involved with the Steering Group are invited to hear about the progress of OnTrent and provide a wider reference group for the initiative.
This website provides information about OnTrent for Forum members.
The last OnTrent Forum was held on 13th May 2008 at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham. Information from the day is available to download from here.
Agenda
Photos
Questions & speaker notes
Guest list
Feedback summary
Presentations in order of appearance:
Jeff Sim - OnTrent update Part 1, Part 2
Nic Wort - Trent Vale Landscape Partnership
Rosemary Mills - Watermead Country Park
Neil Beards - Tarmac
Holger Kessler - British Geological Survey Part 1 Part 2
Ben van Os - Drenthe Province, the Netherlands Part 1 Part 2
Nick Adjei - the Environment Agency
Tim Cooper - ARCUS (University of Sheffield)
David Parkin - Notts Bird Watchers
Paul Tame - National Farmers' Union
Geoff Sansome - Natural England (Keynote Speech)
Ruth Needham - OnTrent Sustainable Development
Boat Trip 2004
An event was organised on the Nottingham Princess in October 2004, to highlight some of the opportunties that exist for access, and the historic and natural enhancment by the river through Nottingham. To read about the event please click here (320KB) .
Forum 2004
The OnTrent Forum 2004 was held on the Friday 5th of March at Rolls-Royce in Derby. The Secretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, The Rt Hon. Margaret Beckett MP gave the key note address.
Click here to read the summary of Forum 2004. (Word document 146KB).
Forum 2003
The Forum 2003 was held on Friday January 31st 2003 at Nottinghamshire County Council
The objectives of the day were:
To raise awareness about the initiative among members of the Forum
To encourage such groups and organisations to get involved
To update Forum members on the progress of the initiative
To promote the ‘Forum’ as a wider reference group for “On Trent”.
Download OnTrent Forum 2003 Summary as a PDF |