Peat-Fest South-West: A celebration of our peatland connections

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.

Peat-Fest South-West was made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we will be able to develop a bogtastic celebration of our peatland connections.

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

Find out more on our Peat-Fest South-West webpages or visit the IUCN UK Peatland Programme Virtual Peatland Pavilion to explore our Peat-Fest South-West content and much more.