What we do

The Wye-Usk Transition Lab brings together system participants from across the Wye and Usk catchments to transform the landscape into healthy place for people and nature to thrive.

The Fens Transition Lab brings together system participants across the Fens landscape to realise transformative change towards a regenerative system. In collaboration with Future Fens: Integrated Adaptation, the Transition Lab seeks to leverage investments in two new reservoirs in South Lincolnshire and the Fens in order to create wider benefits for the community and environment.

North Star Transition launched the Scotland Transition Lab in collaboration with the Global Soil Health Programme at the University of Glasgow. This initiative brings together leaders, researchers and practitioners to explore the possibilities that lie beyond the siloes of organisational and sectoral boundaries.

The Wales Transition Lab is a systemic nation-scale programme. It reconnects food, health and nature in order to deliver beneficial solutions that address the root causes of wellbeing decline. Wales Transition Lab brings together over 50 Welsh leaders across food, farming, environment, water, business, education and health sectors.

Mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions is a multi-year innovation project funded by OFWAT to encourage the mainstreaming of nature-based solutions. The project is led by United Utilities. North Star Transition is leading the workstream on financing nature-based solutions.

This action group was chaired by Jane Davidson. It looked for the most imaginative approaches to inform deliverable plans for the Welsh Government to achieve Net Zero. We sought views from Wales and across the world before making recommendations to Welsh Government. Our draft conclusions have been made public.

The Dreel Burn Investment Readiness (DBIRP) partnership, funded by the Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland (FIRNS) grant scheme, aims to restore the Dreel Burn, a river landscape in Fife. The project is highly collaborative, with co-design between interested parties being key to our core values of transparency and integrity. North Star Transition and Apella Advisors are supporting the work around financing of landscape transformation.

What does a #FutureGen food strategy look like for an NHS Trust? North Star Transition supported Velindre’s development of a food strategy to help enable local, healthy, good quality and environmentally sustainable food, improving the wellbeing of patients, staff, food communities and supporting local food suppliers/producers.

With support from the Environment Agency, North Star Transition has explored what financial sector participants would need in order to invest in nature-based solutions, at scale, across a landscape.