One donation, twice the impact!

From the 3rd to midday on the 10th December, every donation to The Rivers Trust via The Big Give Christmas Challenge will be doubled!

Your gift of £10 becomes £20 for us, or your £50 becomes £100, at no extra cost to you. That means your generosity goes twice as far to protect and restore our vital waterways.

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Wild, healthy, natural rivers, valued by all.

Healthy rivers are essential to human life, they provide us with drinking water, they water our crops, they are home to important species of wildlife, they provide recreational spaces for our health and wellbeing.

Child looking at nature
A man testing water quality using sampling kit people planting a wetland

0% good overall health

0%

of all rivers in England and Northern Ireland are classed as 'good overall'.

Natural barriers

99%

of British rivers have artificial barriers obstructing migrating fish

Species decline

83%

decline in freshwater species globally since 1970

1% of the earth

1%

of the earth's surface is made up of freshwater ecosystems, yet they provide habitat for 100,000+ species

Take action.

See what you can do to save rivers and help communities thrive.