DCF Annual Conference 2022

A big thank you to everyone who came along to the DCF annual conference on the 20th September at Kingston Maurward College, we had a great attendance with over 100 DCF members joining us!

There were 17 inspiring presentations from a range of presenters and organisations, 13 information stands and lots of networking and catching up taking place.

Here are the speaker biographies and presentation slides:

 Speaker biographies

 Delegate List

Presentation slides

 Welcome & DCF update

 Litter Free Dorset, Improving & maintaing bathing water quality across Dorset

 Wessex Water, Creating behaviour change and improving water quality

 Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs) & the SMP Refresh

 BCP Council FCERM Service and Projects

 Community engagement and resilience

 Dorset Council climate and ecological strategy and action plan

 BCP’s Climate Action Programme

 Development of a National Marine Park framework & principles

 Hemingway Design, Winners and Losers of Seaside Towns

 Southern IFCA, Sustainable fishing & Endangered, Threatened & Protected Species

 Dorset Council, Increase in water-based recreation

 Poole Harbour’s Bird & Recreation Initiative: mitigating recreational disturbance to SPA bird species

 Lyme Regis Boat Building Academy

 Studland Bay Marine Partnership – Sustainable recreation

 Swansea University, The benefits and challenges of seagrass restoration

 David Francis, Lets talk SeaHives

Some of the information stands at the DCF Annual Conference 2022