Lloyds Banking Group

Lloyds Banking Group worked with The Rivers Trust and West Cumbria Rivers Trust between March 2024 and March 2025 to learn about working with farmers on a catchment scale to deliver a nature-based project that aims to reduce flood risk.

Natural Flood Management and Landscape Recovery in the Glenderamackin catchment

West Cumbria Rivers Trust is leading the development of a £65 million Landscape Recovery project, Resilient Glenderamackin, with support from The Rivers Trust and Nature Finance.

Thanks to a donation from Lloyds Banking Group the team engaged local, regional and national businesses in conversation about the environmental services and long-term benefits that the project would deliver. These benefits include reduced flood risk, slowing the release of water in times of drought, improved biodiversity and increased carbon storage.

Lloyds Banking Group is a founding business partner of Projects for Nature and is committed to supporting projects which aim to protect and restore England's natural environment. Resilient Glenderamackin is one of three nature recovery projects that received a donation from the Group.

As the UK’s biggest lender to agricultural businesses, Lloyds recognises that farmers have a key part to play in both protecting and restoring nature, and how supporting a switch to more sustainable farming practices can help unlock increases in productivity and profitability.

Resilient Glenderamackin is working with over 50 landowners and managers in a rural catchment to co-design changes in land use and management. In doing so the project is helping to prepare farmers to make a transition into new payments which will reward farmers and land managers for delivering environmental outcomes alongside food production.