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Projects

Our collaborations combine The Rivers Trust’s expertise, our member Trusts’ local understanding and the resources and knowledge of our partners and wider stakeholders including land owners, businesses, water companies and farmers.

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23 projects

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Blog: Hide and tweet! Bird hide gets new lease of life

Community focused funding from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has enabled Kent Wildlife Trust to transform a derelict bird hide into a beautiful new hideaway for birdwatchers

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Woodlands for Water

Woodlands for Water is the first project developed by the Riverscapes partnership which aims to create 3,150 hectares of trees in six river catchment areas from Devon to Cumbria by March 2025.

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Water for Tomorrow

Water for Tomorrow (WfT) is a partnership of 5 organisations from across France and England, which aims to improve the management of water resources to increase environmental, economic and societal resilience to water scarcity and drought. This €4million project is funded through the EU INTERREG VA France (Channel) England Programme.

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In-No-Plastic

In-No-Plastic (Innovative approaches towards prevention, removal and reuse of marine plastic litter) is a three year, EU funded project which aims to develop and demonstrate technology to clean up nano‑, micro‑, and macro-plastics in aquatic ecosystems

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Broomfield Wetlands

Replenish 2020 — 2023

The Rivers Trust and The Coca-Cola Foundation are working together to increase understanding of freshwater environments across England and deliver critical improvements to rivers in London and Northumbria as well as an ancient fen in Kent. Collectively the projects will realise several benefits for the environment and local communities.

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Wyre NFM Investment Readiness Project

The Rivers Trust and Wyre Rivers Trust are leading a new pioneering project, which will investigate innovative funding opportunities for implementing Natural Flood Management (NFM) measures on the River Wyre and its tributaries, to help reduce the risk of flooding in Churchtown.

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Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund

A collaborative initiative between The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and The Rivers Trust: Delivering systemic change within policy and business for collective river management.

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The Courtauld Commitment 2025 Water Ambition

What is the Courtauld Commitment 2025? The Courtauld Commitment is an ambitious voluntary agreement, that is supported by WRAP and UK Governments , that brings together organisations across the food system to a make food and drink production and consumption more sustainable. At its heart is a ten-year commitment to…

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LIFE IP CleanEST

The CleanEST project is a LIFE integrated project in Estonia focussed on water quality and river restoration. Within the next 10 years, the LIFE IP CleanEST project will improve the status of the water bodies and research how to improve their status.

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Preventing Plastic Pollution (PPP)

Working in partnership with 18 organisations from across France and England, Preventing Plastic Pollution seeks to understand and reduce the impacts of plastic pollution in the marine environment. 

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