The Rivers Trust

Healthy Rivers Trust and Mersey Basin Rivers Trust are given green light for a merger to form Mersey Rivers Trust. Two well-known local river charities, Healthy Rivers Trust and the Mersey Basin Rivers Trust, have been given the green light to launch a new rivers trust, to be formally known as…

Salmon are spawning along the River Burn in North Yorkshire for the first time in 100 years thanks to the UK’s largest port operator, ABP. In March 2016, ABP funded a project to remove a weir which had become a significant barrier to the upstream passage of migrating fish. The…

South Cumbria Rivers Trust and Coniston & Crake Catchment Partnership awarded National Lottery support South Cumbria Rivers Trust has received confirmation of a grant of £763,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to manage the Conserving Coniston & Crake project for the local community’s Coniston & Crake Catchment Partnership. Thanks…

The SEUPB has announced a funding offer worth €4.9m, under the EU’s INTERREG VA Programme, for a highly innovative new project called ‘Source to Tap’ which will improve drinking water quality, on both sides of the border. ‘Source to Tap’ will be delivered by a cross-border partnership involving Northern Ireland…

Over 500 children across 17 schools have taken part in the ‘Rivers in the Classroom’ education programme this school year. This forms part of the Ribble Rivers Trust’s Ribble Life Together project and other ongoing schemes. Part funded by the Community Challenge Fund, the project helped the trust to inspire…