🌱 🐦 Lush times at @sheffieldtransformed.org this weekend... We had a dream team there running a workshop on 'How we can use community land buy-backs to get land justice' and the room was packed! 💥

This week @simonforstroud.bsky.social & 20 other MPs made a valiant effort to strengthen Community Right to Buy powers to help communities own rivers, woods & moors Ministers didn't accept the amendments but sought to reassure that CRtB will apply to environmental assets 1/ bsky.app/profile/guys...

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own rivers, woods and moors, have a read of @tomchance.bsky.social's excellent letter here: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve... And here's a piece I wrote on this: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

2/ Big thanks to @simonforstroud.bsky.social for tabling amendments 107 and 108 & to the 9 MPs who have so far added their support! These would extend the Community Right to Buy to environmental assets, provided the land isn't earmarked for development: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Let communities own rivers, woods & moors! Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way. We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/

Let communities own rivers, woods and moors! Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws. See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... "Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.

Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own environmental assets, read my blog here: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

2/ If you have a Labour MP, please write to them using this template letter created by @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social - tell Ministers to strengthen the Community Right to Buy so that communities can own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...

'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets' Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...

📣Announcing @ReclaimOurMoors.bsky.social : How we can use community land buybacks to get land justice. This session will introduce the Reclaim Our Moors project, and set out its aims. 🎟️ Buy tickets and find out more: buff.ly/g9shP7n

Lovely to have space for discussing community ownership of Moscar Moor on BBC Sheffield this morning… You can listen in from 8.12 via www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #reclaimourmoors

3/ A great example of a community group in England trying to acquire land with clear environmental benefits to the local community is @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, who want to buy Moscar Moor in the Peak District - a natural flood defence, carbon store & 'green lung': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2/ It's vital that the English Devolution Bill is amended in Committee Stage to include 'environmental benefits' alongside social & economic ones - so that communities can acquire environmental assets they value, like rivers, woods & natural flood defences: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

In debate on new Community Right to Buy laws, great to see Labour MP @simonforstroud.bsky.social call for communities to be given chance to buy environmental assets, alongside social & economic ones - a point also made by Lib Dem MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025... 1/

Thanks so much to Graham Wroe for his lovely write up in the Sheffield Telegraph. Do check out @telltherealtruth.bsky.social and join us reclaiming our moors!

Thanks so much to @thestar.co.uk for this lovely double page spread in today’s paper to mark the start of the shooting season.

We were delighted to be joined on Sunday by three of our elected representatives from @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social, from left to right: Cllr Christine Gilligan-Kubo (Hillsborough), Cllr Marieanne Elliot (Gleadless Valley), Tessa Lupton (Ecclesall candidate), Cllr Douglas Johnson (City).

Went for a bimble up onto the local moors today and shocked by how much exposed peat there is. As mentioned on the @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social walk on Sunday exposed peat will quickly release CO2 whereas healthy peat is a great store for carbon.

🚀 Look mum, we're on the beeb! Perhaps auntie wants to Reclaim Our Moors too?! www.bbc.com/news/article...

A bid to buy Moscar Moor has launched which would take it from the assets of the Duke of Rutland and return its management to the local community, informed by ecologists. What’s not to like? Follow @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social for more updates www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for the community Local Labour councillor Minesh Parekh said: “I look forward to people making use of the upcoming 'Community Right to Buy' legislation to bring mismanaged land into community hands” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A few of us went for a walk up there today to see what the Duke had been spending his grant money on. (Plot Spoiler.) Not much. Not a single grouse was spotted all day either.

Excellent protest walk today across part of the Duke's trashed moorland. The mismanagement is not just "alleged", it's glaringly obvious. And it's not only about wildlife: degraded peat moorland releases carbon and contributes to climate change, and heather burning causes the majority of wildfires.

🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.

@reclaimourmoors.bsky.social organised a great trip up to Moscar Moors today. Songs were sung. Speeches were made. Not a single grouse was spotted or heard.

🛑 Stop grouse shooting 📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice. 🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August 📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park 🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

👥 Lovely to get together for a proper in person natter after recent online conversations. 📜 We are hoping to pin down a collaboratively written constitution/manifesto type thing soon then get cracking with you all reclaiming our moors! 👋 Don't be shy saying hello if you want to get involved.

🎓 Members of our history and ecology group made a visit to Sheffield archives... 🗺️ We've got saucy historic maps of the moors and other info to digest before we start making beautiful propaganda! 🎶 I'll know my song well before I start singing 💬 Do get in touch if you want to reclaim our moors!

Members say they walked across part of the 6,000-acre estate, between Stanage Edge and the A57, and found "almost no insect life, few birds and no grouse".

Much kudos to this new campaign group - give them a follow! @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/19/r...

Positive community action on the disgraceful ruination of the Moscar estate, on the edge of Sheffield. Crazy this sort of land management is allowed in an era of climate change and air pollution. Follow @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social for more. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/19/r...

A new campaign hopes to take advantage of upcoming legislation to take a #Sheffield grouse moor into community ownership. @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social have made a starting offer of £1 to Moscar Moor's current owner the Duke of Rutland due to its "poor condition". @sammgreg.bsky.social ✍️

I'd be enthusiastic for a community-led takeover of the Forest of Bowland (Lancaster & Lancashire) - it should be the country's flagship rewilding / peat restoration project. bsky.app/profile/guys...

Great work from @guyshrubsole.bsky.social and @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social - thinking about how the forthcoming CRTB can support buyout of natural assets used by communities.

There are not many grouse moors in Wales, but it would be nice to see progressive parties show some leadership on a community right to buy in the run-up to the next election (we do not currently have one for land). It will be appearing in some 3rd sector manifestos

📰 The @thestar.co.uk article looks just as lovely in print. 🌱 Reclaim our moors! Are you game?

🚨 BREAKING NEWS!🚨: A landmark victory for the River Severn and turning point for polluting factory farming across the UK We’ve just overturned the approval of a 200,000-bird factory farm in the High Court, a major legal victory against Shropshire Council. 🔗 - bit.ly/3HY4xl4

This is bang on point about the ecological impact of the game bird industry coupled with land ownership patterns. I see the scars from burning the moors. good stuff from @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social & The Star 🔥🔥🔥🔥

'Will Community Right to Buy allow communities to take over moorlands & peat bogs?' Great to see this recent PQ by Olivia Blake MP - timely in the context of new Sheffield group @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social campaigning to buy Moscar Moor questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Fed up of choking on smoke from nearby grouse moors, Sheffield residents have set up @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, to push for a community buyout of the Duke of Rutland's Moscar Moor - & use new powers under forthcoming ‘Community Right to Buy’ legislation 1/ www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ...

✨ Hurrah for The Star! 🎩 Duke of Rutland urged to sell 'trashed' grouse moor 'to people of Sheffield' www.thestar.co.uk/news/environ... Reclaim our moors! Are you game?

🥾 Visiting Moscar, a grouse moor bordering Sheffield owned by the Duke of Rutland. 🪶 People were angry at the sorry state of the land, due to it being managed for grouse shooting at the expense of all other life 💷 We’re offering the Duke £1 to take it off his hands as it is in such a poor state.

🎉 Fun times on Saturday at our inaugural meeting where we decided to offer the Duke of Rutland £1 to buy Moscar Moor off him, as it is in such a sad and sorry state. 👋 Do say hello if you’d like to get involved and help us reclaim our moors!

Reclaim our moors? I’m game!