Delighted to go on BBC Politics South yesterday and talk about the @righttoroam.bsky.social amongst other things.
Sweden has had this law of “public access to land” for decades, Scotland introduced it in 2003, its time we did the same in England.
Behind unhinged cases like this: the law of trespass. A legal fiction which invents an antagonism.
It need not exist.
We need to move away from a system which encourages landowners to fantasise they're under attack simply because of the presence of another human.
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Our Land cinema poster
Our Land
Screening on Tue 9th June, Verdant Taproom, Penryn.
OUR LAND takes us to the heart of the ‘Right to Roam’ movement as it embarks on a provocative trail of mass trespass, campaigning and education
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The panel on stage at The Curzon Cinema, Soho
The Cinema billing, outside.
Part of the Right to Roam team & friends celebrating afterwards. So proud of this lot.
Brilliant weeknight premiere of Our Land, a beautiful, compelling (& funny) film, + a passionate, lively, thought-provoking panel on @righttoroam.bsky.social ft @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Nadia Shaikh, dir Orban Wallace & landowners Francis Fulford & Hugh Lillingstone, chaired by Hannah MacInnes. 1/2
Sold out screening of Our Land at Curzon Soho this week. With a feisty Q&A to boot.
The distance between ourselves and Hugh Inge-Innes-Lillingston of the Thorpe Estate: a trifling acre or two.
The distance to Francis Fulford of Great Fulford: an ocean, a continent, an intergalactic space voyage.
Guy Shrubsole and Nadia Seikh, Orban Wallace https://www.orbanwallace.com/ourland
Very special evening at a screening of the sublime new Our Land film about the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, with a moving and spicy panel debate with the film’s director & protagonists, including the wonderful @guyshrubsole.bsky.social & Nadia Shaikh
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OUR LAND Film Screening and Q+A with Right to Roam West Midlands 27th April 2026 7pm at Mockingbird Cinema The Custard Factory Gibb St, Deritend Birmingham B9 4AA Tickets Available Online at www.mockingbirdcinema.com BFoE Seas on Film Background image is dark green with tree patterns, there are various small figures in amongst the text. A small group bottom left hold a sign saying Right to Roam, a single figure mid- right holds a sign saying no trespassing. Top left is a fanciful pheasant flying.
Introducing the 1st in the BFoE Season of Film on the 27th April, Our Land! This film explores debates between land & power “a journey over the walls that divide us.” This will be followed by a Q&A with @righttoroam.bsky.social
Get your tickets www.mockingbirdcinema.com you won’t want to miss it!🍿
to get involved with any of our local group actions, get in touch with your nearest group here: www.righttoroam.org.uk/takeaction
By the Government’s own figures, 73% of woods in England have no known public access. Also, over a third of ancient trees on the Ancient Tree Inventory are inaccessible to the public. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Our 'Trees'passes have kicked off over the weekend, for a month of action orchestrated by our local groups. Starting with Suffolk and Bristol, and are carrying on through April, with a focus on our inaccessible trees.
River Lea countryside scene
River Lea in Newham, overlooking millenium dome/ O2 and Canary Wharf
🌊Right 4 Lea Our River🌊Pilgrimage
We'll be walking from the source to the mouth of the #RiverLea commencing our journey to establish river rights!
Join us for any or every stretch of the nine-day pilgrimage from 25 April - 3 May for FREE: www.ticketsource.com/save-lea-mar...
MASSIVE numbers on the Together march against the far right today.
Right to Roam has been marching with the Folk Against Fascism bloc - Morris dancers reclaiming rural English traditions from the far right
The countryside is for everyone!
Oops. Yes! Good catch.
Released in UK & Irish cinemas on 8th May, Orban Wallace’s 'Our Land' follows the @righttoroam.bsky.social movement, asking the timely question: who has the right to roam in the English countryside? www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/our-...
By no means the end of the astonishing inequity in English land ownership, but a big old step change in transparency (and let’s hope, accountability) and the toppling of a significant obstacle to nature protection and restoration. Simply incredible work by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
OUR LAND focuses on the Right to Roam movement as it embarks on a provocative trail of mass trespass, campaigning & education.
Catch a special preview screening + Q&A with Philip Le Marquand & Jo Aris of @righttoroam.bsky.social, Tyneside Cinema, Wed 29/04 6pm.
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VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is a great news story. But it's also an interesting access story; revealing of how we talk, and think, about access rights.
Nightjar are an 'amber' list species. They're ground nesters. And they roost in the sorts of habitats which often overlap with existing access land in England and Wales.
Never a day goes by when we are not grateful for the #ScottishOutdoorAccessCode which enables people to roam and enjoy Scotland's woods, trees and landscapes. Access to nature is crucial for physical & mental health. buff.ly/YKbrtc2 @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
They'll be using existing tracks and rides.
REVEALED: Nearly three-quarters of England's woods are inaccessible to the public, according to official stats
@righttoroam.bsky.social local groups are organising upcoming trespasses to woods to show how pheasant shoots & private logging firms prevent access:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Guy Shrubsole said “It’s appalling that three-quarters of all the woodland in England is inaccessible. Everyone loves trees, but thousands of woods are off-limits simply because of corporate logging interests or due to a landowner using their woods for pheasant shooting.”
@righttoroam.bsky.social 🌳
Everyone should be able to access, enjoy, and protect our woodland. We need the right to health-giving exercise in beautiful nature - as well as the right to connect to the stories and myths people have told about our glorious ancient trees for centuries.
Right to Roam Local Groups are undertaking a month of trespasses to inaccessible woods and trees across England from mid-March to mid-April. They will be highlighting the numerous instances of how the public are being shut out of our woods by private landowners, logging companies and pheasant shoots
35% of the ancient trees on the Woodland Trust’s Ancient Tree Inventory are inaccessible, that’s 29,121 trees on their database with no access, across England and Wales.
ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk
73% of woods in England have no known public access. The statistic comes from a buried government report quietly published by Forest Research last year.
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If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise... most of them are closed off to the public.
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Co-director of Right to Roam, @jon-moses.bsky.social, has authored its launch report: The Welsh Way to Wild
1) Read the report and sign up to the mailing list at: rewildingalliance.cymru
2) Give the alliance a follow: @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru
It’s live! The @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru has launched and Right to Roam are proud to be one of the core organisations supporting its call for a wilder Wales.
We’ll be advocating a vision of rewilding which opens access, builds community, and drives ecological recovery from below.
Very happy to be representing @righttoroam.bsky.social as a member of this new rewilding alliance, and to have authored its launch report: The Welsh Way to Wild.
1) Read the report and sign up to the mailing list at: rewildingalliance.cymru
2) Give the alliance a follow: @cynghrairalwylltio.cymru
