Logo for Peat-Fest South-west 2025 with stylized text, a graphic of a hand holding plants with people, and the year 2025.

A celebration of our peatland connections

Love your peatlands, feel their strength, experience their heritage with Peat-Fest South-West.

From Somerset and Dorset, Dartmoor and Exmoor down to Cornwall, everyone was invited to experience the power of peatlands and celebrate why they are so special.

Peat-Fest South-West was a region-wide celebration raising awareness of peatland heritage through youth-focused events, intergenerational skills exchange, creative activities, and digital storytelling. Through the summer and autumn of 2025, we created curiosity-generating, hands-on, fun-filled Bogtastic events, enjoying our boggy peatlands as special nature-rich places, necessary for all of life facing climate change and ecological decline.

Partnering up with RE-PEAT and collaborating with a diversity of peatland partnerships, youth based and cultural organisations, their volunteers, and young people; we co-created activities and events for everyone to enjoy.

Together, we encouraged relationships between younger people and their older peers in the future care for peatlands.

The legacy of Peat-Fest South-West continues; listen to our Bogcasts or Broadcasts, share our young person’s Manifesto or get out and about in your local peatlands with our engagement resources.

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Evaluation and Impacts

Evaluation and Impacts
Bogcasts

Bogcasts
Peat-Fest South-West Manifesto

Peat-Fest South-West Manifesto
Education and Engagement Resources

Education and Engagement Resources
Broadcasts

Broadcasts
Peat-Fest South-West latest news

Peat-Fest South-West latest news
Virtual Peatlands Pavilion

Virtual Peatlands Pavilion
RE-PEAT working with Young People

RE-PEAT working with Young People
Partners / Delivery Team

Partners / Delivery Team
The National Lottery Heritage Fund

The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Peat Picnic on top of Harford Moor with the Wellbeing Warriors
Aerial view of a wetland area with grid-like patterns of small pools and patches of vegetation, surrounded by dense trees and open fields in the background.
A small pond surrounded by dry grass and dirt, with a few trees on the hill in the background under a clear blue sky.
Group of people observing a person examining water in a wet, grassy landscape with blue sky and clouds.
A landscape view of the countryside with patches of water, wet soil, and dry grass, showing evidence of recent flooding or water runoff in a rural area.
Open grassland with a small water stream reflecting the blue sky and distant rolling hills.
Group of researchers and students examining plants in a grassy field with measuring tools and equipment.
Three hikers walking along a narrow path through wet grassy terrain in a vast open landscape with hills in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
A construction site in a grassy field with a small excavator, several workers wearing safety vests and helmets, and camera crew filming the scene.
Five hikers walking across a grassy wetland landscape with small ponds, under a partly cloudy blue sky.
Group of people outdoors on a grassy hillside examining a small stream, some crouching and others standing, with blue sky and scattered clouds overhead.
Poster for Peat-Fest South-West 2025, focused on art and energy, featuring logos from various organizations including Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks, Heritage Fund, and others, with illustrations of plants and a re-peat symbol.