Our Big Idea...
We're working to “sensitively introduce, improve, enjoy, protect and preserve the River Stour through community engagement, collaboration & action”. The community-led, co-created, project is seeking to bring individuals, groups and communities along the full course of the River Stour together in a bid to collectively understand and then enhance every aspect of the river, with each community ‘passing on’ the river to the next.
Creating a River Stour Community
If you live, work, relax or play near the River Stour, whether you're near the source at (arguably!) St Kenelm's Church in Romsley, at it's end in Stourport, or anywhere inbetween then we'd love to hear from you. This is a collaborative, co-created effort to create something fresh and exciting - demonstrating a new, people-led, way of adopting and caring for rivers
River Survey
Starting by splitting the river into 30 individual mile sections, a group of 15 from across the course of the river have already started 'adopting' and surveying stretches of the river near them to get an end-to-end understanding of how the river looks today, before we get going with targeted projects in 2026.
We're using a simple, purpose-built survey app that allows us to take photos, categorise and plot locations directly on to a map.
Stour Way
As part of the push for the end-to-end community adoption and care of river, a long-term ambition of the group is to establish a new marked ‘Stour Way’ footpath, sensitivity connecting communities with both the rivers stunning examples of nature and its rich cultural heritage.
About the River Stour
Coming soon... but in the mean time...
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