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    South Downs National Park

    Maves works in partnership with the South Downs National Park, sharing at local level its goals to understand, conserve and enhance the special qualities of our landscape.

    Environmentally and for its long views in the landscape, the whole MAVES study area (and possibly some other parts of Arun District) could have qualified for inclusion in the National Park:  the rare flushed fen habitat of the secluded Binsted and Tortington rife valleys with their grazing marshes, and the more open watermeadows east of the Arun, were assessed by environmental organisations to meet the standards for natural beauty.  But the boundary was pushed northwards because parts of the area only have limited recreational access, and also because of the uncertainties surrounding the Arundel Bypass, and the decision to exclude the town of Arundel.

    So the Arun District is relevant and important to the National Park, whether within its boundary, or, forming a very important part of its setting in the dip slope and estuarine coastal plain.  Wildlife, and people, go to and fro between its open countryside and its woodland - the wildlife to meet their mixed habitat needs, the people for their recreational or business needs. 

    This close relationship means ACT-Maves works with National Park ranger Simon Mockford and colleagues for advice and support, and they look to us, as a community environmental organisation, to achieve more in the Park and its environs than they could do without us.  The National Park has funded some of our dormouse survey boxes - click here to read about the Maves dormouse project.

    Below, you will find links to other organisations who are active in support of conserving and enhancing the MAVES area's countryside, or the kinds of wildlife, habitats and rural heritage that are found here.

    Partner Organisations represented on our Steering Group:

                 AA21                 SWT   

    Our Partner Universities are:

                          

        University of Brighton                                        University of Portsmouth                 University of Sussex                             

     

    We gratefully acknowledge grants in kind or funds received from:

    SDNPA          

     

    Other Organisations working in partnership with MAVES by providing advice volunteers or other support:

                                    

                        

             PTES    

       

     

                         
     Arun Valley Vision Group                                                                 

     

     

     
    Other Organisations with whose objectives MAVES has affinity:

       BC                         WWT Arundel      

               
                                                                            

                                                                                                                      

    If you would like a link to your environmental organisation to be featured here, please email us using the Contact page.

    • MAVES began its work as an environmental charity in 2015.  By 2018 we had grown to the size requiring registration with the Charity Commission.  We did so under the name Arun Countryside Trust CIO to allow a wider long term remit, supporting the Arun countryside's cultural heritage alongside its natural environment.  We will continue to use the name 'MAVES' for our natural environment work. 

      Partner organisations include Sussex Wildlife Trust and Arundel Agenda 21.

    • MAVES, as the environmental wing of Arun Countryside Trust, aims to:

      Understand, conserve & enhance the environment and countryside of Arun