The Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme (QLPS) was a £2.6m, 5-year project in and around the Quantock Hills. It started April 2020 and ended November 2025, extending the end date by 8 months to deliver another season of public and community events and activities.

The project area was nearly 400 square kilometres, essentially the Quantock Hills National Landscape plus the surrounding ring of Parishes. This is roughly twice the size of the Quantock Hills National Landscape.

Landscape Partnership Schemes are all about looking after a particular landscape and they are about partnership working, bringing a diverse range of interests together to make a real difference to people and place.

Originally there were 23 individual projects, ranging from grants for restoring hedgerows, historic features, and traditional orchards through to educational work with local schools, archaeological excavations, archival research, and a wide ranging and inclusive events programme. As with all long-term scheme’s things change, some projects did not go forward, others expanded their activity and new projects were deliver – as long as they met the aims of the original scheme.

The Scheme aimed to protect and restore the distinctive features of the Quantock Hills National Landscape, improve management of the access pressures on the Hills, and make the health and wellbeing benefits of the natural environment more available to communities in the surrounding towns and villages. A key aim was to increase the understanding of the development of the Manorial landscape, how it underpins the character of the Quantock Hills, and of the wider natural, built and cultural heritage of the area.

The scheme engaged with over 17,500 participants including 2,350 young people, delivered 300 events, restored 16 historic structures, improved over 30Ha of priority habitats, identified 750 potential new archaeological sites, undertook 14 community archaeological events, planted over 3,100 trees, planted or restored 5.75km of native hedgerows, surveyed 85km of hedgerows and enabled 3 apprentices to move onto meaningful employment.