Current and recent clients are:
- 2023-present: Devon County Council, supporting the development of the Devon Local Nature Recovery Strategy, coordinating the workstreams of mapping, farming and rivers.
- 2018-present: The Blackdown Hills National Landscape, developing and then helping deliver the Connecting the Culm (CtC) project and its 25-year Blueprint Plan. This has included developing a Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund project, Connecting Natural Capital for the Culm. I am currently supporting three separate CtC sub-projects: one funded by National Highways; one by Network Rail; and one by Innovate UK. The latter is building on the NEIRF project to develop a detailed Business Case for the 25-year CtC Blueprint, working with financial advisors Terranomics.
- 2025 – present: Devon Wildlife Trust, developing the Blended Finance Plan for the East Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Area.
- 2024-present: East Devon District Council’s Seaton Wetlands, developing the Wild About Seaton Masterplan and now developing a National Lottery Heritage Fund application to implement the plan.
- 2021-present: South Devon National Landscape, initially developing an application to the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the Life on the Edge project; secured £2.4m NLHF funding towards this £4m 5-year project; I supported the team through the Development Phase and I am currently providing an Evaluation role in the Delivery Phase.
- 2023- present: The River Dart Catchment Partnership, developing the Wild River Dart Action Plan.
- 2020-present: Blackdown Hills National Landscape and East Devon Catchment Partnership, developing the Triple-Axe Action Plan for the River Axe (Devon/Dorset); including coordinating and acting as lead author of the successful £700k Upper Axe Landscape Recovery Scheme application to DEFRA. Currently delivering a review of the Action Plan.
Dominic Acland 