Tweed Forum is a unique and award-winning partnership of 27 public and private organisations who work together and with farmers, foresters, landowners and other organisations to deliver strategic benefits across the 5000 km2 cross-border Tweed catchment.
Supporting the partnership to deliver these benefits are our amazing team of Tweed Forum staff who work collaboratively to deliver measures that improve the land and water environment throughout the Tweed catchment, enhance habitat for wildlife including salmon and otter, improve soil and water quality, help combat the effects of the climate and biodiversity crises, and provide tourism and recreation opportunities across the Scottish Borders and north Northumberland.
For more information about our work to conserve, enhance and restore the land and waters of the Tweed catchment, you can visit our project pages. We also made a film (below) which offers a great introduction to the Tweed catchment and the work of Tweed Forum (as well as celebrating our 30th birthday!).
When Tweed Forum was first formed, climate change was just beginning to register in the public’s consciousness and our work was either opportunistic, or concentrated on single issue problems. Since the creation of our first Catchment Management Plan in 2003, our focus has been on developing a coordinated and targeted programme of nature-based solutions that allow us to address a multitude of issues – protecting nature as well as unlocking its power to tackle the effects of climate change and delivering significant environmental, economic and social benefits for local people.
Partnership working has been key to our success and will continue to help us successfully address the complex issues affecting the land and waters of the Tweed catchment – ensuring that the right measures are being delivered in the right place and at the right scale. Our focus remains on encouraging the adoption of nature-based solutions at the catchment scale, so they make a meaningful impact.
Our Board of Trustees
As a charity, Tweed Forum is guided and supported by a Board of Trustees who give generously of their time, knowledge and experience, and we are extremely grateful for their input.
Our Trustees are:
Paul Jardine (Chair)
Adrian Dolby
Andrew Wallace
Anne Gray
Catherine Maxwell-Stuart
The Duke of Roxburghe
Eck Gordon
Jamie Frere-Scott
Kevin Stewart
Laura Mitchell
Mark Whitehead
Patricia Glennie
(Secretary: Janet Landells)
