Darwall’s win means the Government must pass a new Right to Roam Act
This is a crucial once-in-a-generation moment - the fragility and lack of access to nature has been laid bare, at a time when we need it the most. We need your help to keep access at the top of the political agenda.
The loss of wild camping is a hammer-blow to our ability to connect with nature, and extinguishes an historic right which provided so many thousands of people with opportunities to sleep under the stars. The fact that one wealthy landowner was able to remove this right has laid bare the vulnerability and inequality of our broken access model.
But the Right to Roam campaign is now more determined than ever to win. The way to beat Darwall once and for all is to force the Government to pass a new Right to Roam Act. New legislation is now essential to protect and extend our right to responsibly roam, swim and wild camp in England - taking inspiration from what people in Scotland and Scandinavian countries have enjoyed for decades. And the Right to Roam campaign is leading that fight.
We need your support more than ever. We are a grassroots campaign, run on a shoestring, and almost entirely funded by individual monthly donations by our supporters. Our ability to keep campaigning for the future we all deserve is in the hands of people like you who choose to chip in a fiver or tenner every month. We now need to massively ramp up our campaigning - and we need your help.
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The Right to Roam campaign exists because of the generous donations from supporters like you.
Since 2020 we have been telling the story of our exclusion from the land. We have trespassed the great estates of England, exposing the vast swathes of countryside still kept out of reach of the public. We have defended our existing rights on Dartmoor and beyond. Thanks to these efforts: access to our land and water is back on the agenda. And we have lobbied hard to make a true right to roam a real political possibility.
With your support, we can finish the job.
If you believe in the Right to Roam and want to support the work we’re doing, please consider becoming a regular supporter by donating monthly. The less time we spend fundraising the more time we have to get the real work done. We are not seeking to become a legacy organisation. We are not wasting money on pointless offices or running a bulky organisational machine. Everything we do, everything you give us, goes towards one goal.
The next two years will be crucial for this campaign. A new government is in power. There are sceptics to be won over. Local groups to empower. A new culture of the land to be seeded.
With your support, we can build it.