The public sector is moving towards a historic inflection point

Government spending on public services will fall to its lowest share of national income since at least 1948

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Do we really understand ‘natural capitalism?’

Will whoever pays the piper call the tune…and what will it sound like?

Is there still a place for ‘landscape’ and ‘natural beauty ‘ ?

Large scale infrastructure projects and small scale incremental change

Devolution – what does it mean for the AONB Family?

The passionate stories of people and place reduced to the concept of natural resource management?

British wildlife is in peril. Nature is us and we are nature.

Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are designations fit for the 21st century

AONB teams are fleet of foot and exceptionally good value for money

Portrait of The Queen, taken in 2002© John Swannell/Camera Press

AONBs - Jewels in the crown… and quite a bit cheaper.

AONB partnerships and their teams cost the public a mere 13 pence per person per year.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

Jane Howard