Communications Workstreams
Our communications activities include:
- Our website
- Social media
- Literature
- Press releases and articles
- Regular newsletters
- Events
- Displays and attendance at relevant conferences and forums.
It is essential for WATER’s success as an environmental charity that it is able to communicate its aims and activities to a wide range of audiences to inform, motivate and encourage support for our work. These audiences include:
Communities
Those who live in the towns, villages and hamlets within the catchment where the population exceeds 18,000 people.
Organisations & Agencies
Those we partner with or work with in the course of pursuing our goals and implementing our positive interventions. At the strategic level, these include: the Environment Agency, South Devon National Landscape, Surfers Against Sewage, Catchment Sensitive Farming, Farming in Protected Landscapes, Westcountry Rivers Trust, the Rivers Restoration Centre, Devon Wildlife Trust, Friends of the Dart, Yealm Estuary to Moor (YEM), local MPs, County, District and Parish Councils.
Local Environmental Groups
People who share our mission to restore water quality and habitat across the Erme’s catchment from source to sea, such as those in Ivybridge, Ermington, Holbeton, Ugborough and Modbury.
Organisations for younger generations
Typically these include schools, colleges, Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and other youth organisations.
Our documentary, telling the Erme’s story from source to sea.
Those who live alongside the river and its tributaries have plenty of opportunities to interact with the river, its habitat and wildlife. Some have grown up with the river and witnessed the unwelcome changes. But many are less familiar with the Erme.
It’s harder to care deeply about something you do not fully understand and appreciate.
That’s why WATER wanted to make a film that would introduce people in the catchment and beyond, to the beauty of the river, its unique ecology and the-ever-changing landscape it flows through on its 24 km journey from its moorland source to the sea. More importantly we wanted to show examples of how many pioneering individuals, inspirational enterprises, concerned environmental groups, progressive farmers, landowners and larger organisations are each helping to improve the water quality and habitat across the Erme’s catchment.
The film is currently in production. We have already captured some dramatic images and uplifting stories. We anticipate the film’s completion towards the end of 2026.
How you can help
There are many ways you can help us protect and restore water quality and habitat in the beautiful river Erme. To find out how, just click SUPPORT US