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Making #SpaceForWater: What the parliamentary backbench debate achieved — and where we go next

  • The Rivers Trust
Tessa Wardley, Director of Communications and Advocacy at The Rivers Trust, shares her analysis of the key moment in the Making Space for Water campaign.

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[The Source Code] From satellites to high seas: How GPS is the surprising link between our work and Jake’s endurance race

  • The Rivers Trust
Jake Still took on the challenge of rowing solo across the Atlantic Ocean to raise money for the rivers he loves back home. But how is the GPS technology he used to navigate linked to the work of The Rivers Trust? Part of [The Source Code] series: regular tech and data insights from The Rivers Trust’s Heather Bell, celebrating the digital tools and teams powering environmental change. Sign up to our newsletter to get every piece delivered to your inbox.

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Government’s Water White Paper: Welcome signals, worrying gaps, and vital work still to do

  • The Rivers Trust
  • News
The long-awaited Water White paper contains some positive steps to reform water management, but without significant new government funding it will not be the radical, transformational change that we hoped for or that communities, our environment and the economy need.

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We’ve left X

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We’re a small team with limited resources, and X is no longer a useful, suitable space for our communications.

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Feasibility Study BUFFER+

  • The Rivers Trust
The BUFFER+ project partners are pleased to share the ​“feasibility study for sustainable value chains in peatlands”. This paper assesses the level of feasibility of different business models which could have good potential for generating income in peatland areas while respecting their ecosystem functions.

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Jonathan White, president of The Rivers Trust, receives OBE

  • The Rivers Trust
We are delighted to see Jonathan White, current president of The Rivers Trust and former chair of both The Rivers Trust and Severn Rivers Trust, recognised with an OBE for river conservation in the recent honours list.

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2025, what a year! A message from The Rivers Trust All-Ireland Director, Mark Horton

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A message from the All-Ireland Director, Mark Horton: In early December, The Rivers Trust All-Ireland team gathered in Dublin for a year-end meeting to reflect on 2025 and plan for 2026. I was asked to prepare a short overview of what we had delivered in 2025.

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World’s Toughest Row: Jake’s final Atlantic voyage preparations

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What does it take to get ready for the World’s Toughest Row? Jake Still opens up his food stores and tells us about his final preparations before heading to the start line of his upcoming 3,000-mile solo row across the Atlantic, to raise funds for river restoration work.

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Will this be the year that government makes the changes we need to fix our water system?

  • The Rivers Trust
2025 has the potential to be a transformative year for the water environment. We have the opportunity to kick-start once-in-a-generation change towards more integrated water management, ensuring that our water system genuinely meets the needs of our people, nature and a thriving economy.

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Emmeline Hardisty’s 1000-mile riparian pilgrimage for the rights of rivers

  • The Rivers Trust
This summer, Emmeline walked over 1,000 miles along rivers while campaigning for these ecosystems to be given rights that would support their protection and restoration.

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