On 10th October I wrote to all the Hampshire District councils and Hampshire County Council. I received a response from Patrick Blogg:

Thank you for your email and reaching out to Hampshire County Council about this important endeavour. As custodians for large areas of Hampshire countryside including nature reserves, special areas of conservation, sites of special scientific interest and areas of outstanding natural beauty, as well as understanding the wider benefits to our health and wellbeing that can be achieved through protection of biodiversity, we are keenly aware of the challenges our custodial responsibilities bring.

In keeping with your request I’m pleased to share with you details of our Parish Pollinator Pledge Parish Pollinator Pledge | Community and living | Hampshire County Council (hants.gov.uk). With 246 Parish and Town Councils across Hampshire this is a great opportunity for us to work in partnership with the Parish and Town Council teams to bring forward new sites where we can encourage pollinators to thrive. I hope you will be reassured by this work and see that it fits in with your aspirations to get organisations to play their part.

We are also doing important work with organisations such as the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust on Nature Recovery: Nature recovery | Hampshire County Council (hants.gov.uk). There is also longer term strategic work being carried out on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy which is an outcome from the more recently introduced Environment Act 2021 Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Hampshire | Hampshire County Council (hants.gov.uk).

Finally, you might like to take a look at information on the biodiversity action plans we’ve helped produce in partnership with some of the district and borough councils across Hampshire too: Conserving Hampshire’s biodiversity | Hampshire County Council (hants.gov.uk)

Thank you again for your email and for giving me the opportunity to share that we are a supportive and likeminded organisation; we wish you the very best with your efforts.

Patrick Blogg

Director of Universal Services Hampshire County Council