measure your impact

at a landscape scale

INVEST IN NATURE RECOVERY ON YOUR DOORSTEP

Chalk to Coast is at an exciting development stage - and we're looking for founding corporate partners to help shape what comes next.

We're building one of the most ambitious nature recovery programmes in the South East: a 1,300 km² corridor from the Kent Downs to the Thames and Swale estuaries, delivering measurable outcomes for water, climate, biodiversity and the communities that depend on them.

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Opportunities For Investors

  • Biodiversity net gain (bng)

    Statutory biodiversity units from habitat creation on strategically significant land, delivered through our farmer clusters and secured for 30 years.

  • Carbon sequestration

    Verifiable carbon sequestration from woodland, hedgerow and grassland creation, delivered to recognised UK codes - a credible contribution to your company's net zero journey.

  • Water quality and nutrient reduction

    Interceptor habitats - buffer strips, wetlands, reedbeds and woodland - that trap nutrients, sediment and pollutants before they reach the watercourses.

    Nutrient load reduction is calculated using the same Natural England nutrient-budget methodology that underpins Nutrient Neutrality legislation; giving partners a measurable, credible figure for the water-quality improvement their investment delivers.

  • Natural flood management

    Slowing and storing water across the catchment - floodplain reconnection, leaky woody dams, re-meandering watercourses and soil improvement - to reduce flood risk to communities and infrastructure in the lower Medway.

    Benefit is quantified through flood-storage volume created and interventions installed. For organisations with flood-exposed assets, and to partners seeking measurable catchment resilience outcomes.

  • corporate partnerships

    Become a founding corporate partner - support our delivery team and help shape the vision for the corridor.

    Membership tiers are scaled to suit your commitment level. Every partner receives an annual impact report to evidence in their sustainability reporting,

    Corporate partners receive staff volunteering and Away Days that put your people in the landscape they're helping restore.

A visionary project
for nature positive businesses

BECOME A CORPORATE PARTNER

North Kent faces a genuine environmental crisis - a chalk aquifer that cannot meet the region's growing water needs, rivers failing on water quality, and internationally rare habitats that have shrunk to isolated fragments.

Chalk to Coast exists to address these issues, at a scale that individual landowners and organisations cannot achieve alone.

Deliver nature recovery on your doorstep
A 1,300 km² corridor from the Kent Downs to the Thames and Swale Estuaries - less than an hour from London, accessible, and grounded in a landscape your people know.

Back the farmers already doing it
Our three farmer clusters are working farms, not just nature reserves. Your investment helps them restore nature alongside food production - on land they've managed for generations.

Address the twin crises of climate and nature
Water security, flood resilience, biodiversity recovery - these aren't separate problems. We use Nature Based Solutions to tackle them together, across a single connected landscape.

Build something that lasts
Chalk to Coast is a registered CIC with support from partners Natural England, Kent Downs National Landscape, Kent Wildlife Trust and more. Independently governed, long-term in ambition, with vision beyond any single funding cycle.

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RESTORING NATURE, WATER & CLIMATE RESILIENCE 

RECHARGING KENT

Water supply resilience: aquifer recharge & water storage

The North Kent chalk aquifer cannot meet planned housing growth, impacting drinking water supply resilience. Over-abstraction of the aquifer is degrading the internationally rare chalk streams.

The Problem:

  • Natural Aquifer Recharge through wetland, ponds & scrape creation

  • Holding back water in the landscape through floodplain reconnection, re-meandering watercourses and leaky woody dams

  • Improving soil organic matter and its ability to retain water

The Solution:

CLEANING OUR WATER

Improving water quality & freshwater ecosystems

The Problem:

The River Medway and its tributaries are failing to meet Good Ecological Status under the Water Framework Directive, damaging freshwater ecosystems and the species that rely on them. That same nutrient load reaches the internationally designated Swale and Medway estuaries, damaging intertidal habitats and seagrass. The story runs the length of the corridor: the same pollutants, tracked from chalk to coast.

  • Interceptor habitats that trap and extract nutrients before they reach the watercourses: riparian buffer strips, wetlands, woodlands, grasslands and reedbeds

  • Soil health improvements to mitigate against run off and erosion

The Solution:

THE GREEN RING

Reconnecting fragmented landscapes

The corridor's most valuable habitats — chalk grassland, ancient woodland, marsh — and the species that rely on them, survive in isolated pockets. Infrastructure and urban development sever the routes between them. We must connect the dots, bridge the gaps and provide pathways around the barriers that fragment our landscape.

The Problem:

  • Creating new habitats (woodland, species-rich grassland, hedgerow, scrub, ponds) between existing protected sites to allow species to move freely as they adapt to the changing climate.

  • Green bridges and crossings at connectivity barriers and pinch points.

  • Use existing infrastructure corridors to enhance connectivity (lineside, verges etc)

The Solution:

RECOVERING THE COAST

Coastal adaptation and estuarine recovery

Rising seas and fixed sea walls are squeezing the North Kent coast — with over 300ha of habitat lost by 2105 across the Medway & Swale estuary unless space is made. Freshwater marsh behind the wall is salinising and must be relocated to higher ground.

The Problem:

  • Managed realignment; saltmarsh, intertidal and seagrass creation

  • Higher-ground freshwater habitat compensation at suitable elevation

  • Ground-nesting bird protection; marsh re-wetting

The Solution:

A RESILIENT LANDSCAPE

Buffering the region against climate extremes

The landscape's capacity to absorb shocks - floods, drought and heat- has been eroded by disconnected floodplains, narrow drainage ditches, degraded soils and loss of vegetative cover. We are restoring the buffering capacity that protects the region and its infrastructure from climate extremes.

The Problem:

  • Inland flood attenuation and water retention to hold back water during flash flood events in the lower Medway catchment.

  • Permanent Species-Rich Grassland creation to improve soil carbon and water-storage capacity

  • Woodland, tree and hedgerow planting to improve air quality and heat island effect

The Solution:

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