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A Day out with British Trust for Conservation Volunteers - we join a group of people with mixed learning difficulties to do some practical conservation

A sense of belonging - Malcolm Green describes a project to engage schools in a co-ordinated educational project on the River Tyne

A sense of place - What sort of things can a community identify as a strength or having potential for development? A sense of place can often act as a uniting narrative, particularly for rural communities where narratives are strongly linked with the land.

Access Cornwall Areas - Disabled Ramblers trek through Cornwall

The Access Chain - developed as part of our Evaluation Toolbox this is a tool for managers to understand the chain of events for a good visitor experience

Access Outdoors - Sensory Trust's work with trails in Derbyshire

Accessible Information : Layout and Language - the words we use

Aiding and Abetting a Known Felon - Sensory Trust discovers that its work could be of dubious legality

An Inclusive Approach - the way we work

Alnwick Gardens - A small tour around this visitor attraction

Audience Development Plans - they can help you win funding, but how do you put one together and what are the ingredients for a successful one?

Australian Sensory Trails Development Framework project - the Trust gives a talk to a new project based in Victoria, Australia and finds out about their work

Australian Study Trip - Wendy Brewin recounts some of her discoveries in the land downunder

Australian Study Trip Part 2 - Wendy continues her Oz odyssey in Sydney and Brisbane.

Awakening Senses - an award-winning consultation day run by Sensory Trust as part of the Community Service Volunteers (CSV) ‘Making a difference day’

A Very Sensory Evening at Dunkelrestaurant Nocti Vagus, Berlin's Dark Restaurant

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Ban's Best Friend - dog walkers as the regeneration avant garde

Beacon Project - Hazel Stuteley OBE tells the story of the Falmouth Estate's regeneration and the power of the community

Braille/Large Print Menu Trials - as shown at the Eden Project

Bryant Park, New York, USA - green space review

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Capital Woodlands Project -the Trust to carry out key access reviews

Christmas List 2006 - some serious and not-so-serious recommendations if you're stuck for present ideas for the park person in your life

Cleveland Botanical Garden - David Kamp, keynote speaker at the Sense of Place conference, talks about his recent work

Coming Soon: Two New Guides to Improve Outdoor Access - essential reading for managers and owners of heritage sites and other outdoor landscapes

Connect - Thanks to funding from Lloyds TSB Foundation, Sensory Trust has started the Connect project that will run for the next three years and focus on access to the environment for people with learning disabilities and older disabled people

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Design for the senses - the holistic approach to interpretation

Designing for the 21st Century III, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Mike Westley reporting on the South American inclusive world

Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) - comments from key organisations

Disabled Ramblers explore Cornwall 2006 - Wendy and Lynsey look at some of the benefits of getting disabled people and site managers together out in the elements

Doubletrees School - Sensory Trust spends a day working with children at a school in Cornwall to redesign their outdoor space

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Early Approach to Inclusive Design: the new Core building at Eden Project - Grimshaw architect Jerry Tate tells us why it's so imperative to consider inclusive design from the earliest planning stages

Eden Audio Guide - A CD and MP3 guide developed by the Eden guide team, Sensory Trust and RNIB

Engagement at Quarry Bank Mill - The Sensory Trust has recently completed a round of training with the National Trust. The training consisted of developing a technique that could be easily employed by site staff in the National Trust to ensure their sites were as accessible as possible for their visitors

Engaging Through the Senses - design projects for sensory impairment

Equality of Experience - quality of experience is as important as physical access if the spirit of the DDA is to be upheld

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Funder Profile: The Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales - one of our funders explains their current funding priorities

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Getting into Inclusive Design - Worthy? Dull? Us? Where can I sign up?

Glass Garden, New York - A Personal Testimony by Nancy Chambers

The Green Flag Award Scheme: Inclusive Training - Sensory Trust provides important training for the judges

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Healthcare Environments - exploring the benefits of therapeutic outdoor environments

Historic memory in Valdediós - Simon Manfield talks of his work with the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica, locating and excavating mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and the effect of the work on the local communities.

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If You Go Down to the Woods - involving people in the Capital Woodlands Project in London, part of a global initiative by Trees for Cities

Inclusive Design : Why Wouldn't You? - food for thought

Inclusive Action Group - we have liftoff! - brief overview of the first meeting

Indigo Arts - a partner profile of this fantastic organisation which works with young adults with a range of learning difficulties

Interview with an Eden Volunteer - Wendy Brewin talks to Jo Burgess about access for disabled people

Is your web site still in the dark? - web accessibility and you

It is dangerous to stick your head out - the subtle messaging that can come, intentionally or unintentionally, from the words and pictures we choose to use.

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The Japanese Connection - looking at great examples of sensory and inclusive design in Osaka and Kyoto

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Kent Countryside Opportunities for Everyone - Stuart Mcleod, Senior Access Development Officer for Kent County Council talks about some exciting projects

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Lanhydrock House - Sensory Trust holds an activity day at the National Trust's Lanhydrock House and Gardens.

Lipson Special Needs Unit - Designing their space

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Making Sense? - our expansion and our work with the Eden Project

Man Enjoys View From Bench - fear and urban public space

Mending broken communities: as easy as ABCD? - Hazel Stuteley and the Health Complexity Group launch Connecting Communities at the Sense of Place conference at Eden.

Milton Keynes Parks, UK - green space review

Mosaics for the Beacon Resource Centre - hands on at the Falmouth Beacon estate

More than a Room with a View - beneficial plant therapy for mental well being

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Need for Public Spaces - how important gathering spaces are post September 11th

New Ground - the beginning of a new partnership project investigating ways to use narrative and heritage to regenerate communities.

New Projects - two more projects kick off at the Sensory Trust.

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Obvious Use of an Urban Park - Urban parks are too precious to be squandered by a single use or single interest group.

Oizumi Ryokuchi Park, Osaka, Japan - green space review

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Park Experience: holistic roots - using both the UK and the US as examples, just what is a park experience?

Public Parks Keep Out conference overview - our joint venture with GreenSpace, held in Nov 2003 in Manchester.

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Quality of life in urban centres, Argentina - Pablo Bullaude writes about new developments on the Asunción coastline

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ReDiscover - exciting work for the new Core building at the Eden Project

Reflections, projections and pinholes - a selection of images from the Bethlem Gallery

Remembering Jane Jacobs - outspoken critic of the planning establishment in the US, we remember the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A River Runs Through Them: Parks in Melbourne - we review the old and the new in Australia

Royal Schools for the Deaf Manchester, UK - green space review

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Seicho School - Lynsey visits a residential care centre for people with Learning disabilities in Tokyo

A Sense of Peace at the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris - inspired by a talk at our conference we find vital sensory ingredients in one of the oldest cemeteries in Paris

Sense of Place conference review - a look back with a warm glow at our conference in June/July in Devon and Cornwall

Sense of Place 2006 - a review of the conference held this June in Cornwall.

Sensory Garden - what's that then? - to include or to exclude... a designers view

Sensory Mapping - new ways of looking at (and sniffing at) spaces

Sensory Trust recommends - stuck in the airport, bored by Brown and fed up of Follett? Sensory Trust recommends some holiday reading that might inspire you so much, you'll actually want to go back to work.

Sheffield Peace Gardens, UK - green space review

Stourhead Sensory Trail - Experience the gardens of Stourhead through sight, touch, smell and hearing

Sustainability and New Urbanism - a bright future?

Symbols for People with Learning Difficulties - pioneering the use of Widgits

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The Third Place - Lars asks, is a coffee machine commercial the last kick in the teeth for public spaces?

Towards the Edge - Sensory Trust recently completed a series of consultation engagement sessions as part of the Eden Project's funding bid to the Big Lottery for their final big build; the Edge.

TR14ers community dance team - Peter Whitbread-Abrutat writes about the TR14ers, a police-led community dance team of about 350 young people in the town of Camborne in Cornwall, UK.

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Unusual Likeness of Being Musical - Mick Beck, Sensory Trust Trustee and blind musician

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The Value of Landscaping on Health - Jane Stoneham talks about the therapeutic and social value of landscape at a seminar held by Architects for Health in association with the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London.

Volunteer Sighted Guides - Cambridge Botanics offers guided tours for people with visual impairments.

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Wateraid Exhibit at Eden - access and interpretation

Wheelchairs and Graffiti - custom paint jobs for wheelchairs at Eden

Widgit Discover Packs - Sensory Trust works with Widgit in the development of the Discover Eden packs for the Eden Project

Work experience at Sensory HQ - a student from Fowey Community College explains a sensory week

Wrestling with leaning towers - Landlife's Richard Scott argues that creative conservation and ecological restoration are likely to become significantly more important in the near future, particularly to address the impacts of an increasingly urbanised and populated world.

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