Interview
Nick Balls: Friends Of The Broads
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In this interview, Dominik speaks with Nick Balls about the Broad Society, a charity founded in 1950. The conversation focuses on the society's role as an umbrella group for planning and conservation, highlighting the Broadsword group's work clearing scrubland at Ranworth Dam and the involvement of local Southern and Northern Rivers Committees.
Dominik interviews Nick Balls regarding the Broad Society, a charity established in 1950. Nick explains that the organisation serves as an umbrella group for planning and conservation issues, including the work of the Broadsword group, which clears scrubland and trees, specifically at Ranworth Dam in recent years. The discussion covers local involvement through Southern and Northern Rivers Committees and how to join the society via their website to receive a quarterly magazine.
Topics
- Broad Society membership and activities
- Environmental conservation and scrub clearing
- Local planning and river committees
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Looking After The Norfolk Broads
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Well, I'm here with Nick Balls from the Broad Society, Friends of the Broads. Nick, tell me about the organisation. Okay, we're a charity that's been on the Broad since 1950.
To help clear the scrubland, which is called Broadsword, which is a group that go out every winter, and last couple of years they've been working on Ranworth Dam, clearing all the the trees that have grown up along there.
Society, you get to know a lot about lots of different aspects of the broads, the history, and what we're what we're campaigning for.