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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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30 projects

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Water for Tomorrow

Water for Tomorrow (WfT) closed March 2023, and aimed to improve the management of water resources to increase environmental, economic and societal resilience to water scarcity and drought. 

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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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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 2030 Water Roadmap

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. 

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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)

Preventing Plastic Pollution ended June 2023. Working in partnership with 18 organisations from across France and England, the project worked to understand and reduce the impacts of plastic pollution in the marine environment.

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WAMM: Wholescape Approach to Marine Management

The Rivers Trust and the Coastal Partnerships Network have recently begun a 16-month project, funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) to support a more an integrated and collaborative approach to the management of estuarine and coastal waters nationwide. The Wholescape Approach to Marine Management ​‘WAMM’ project will…

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AA Floods

AA Floods is a €2.5 million, 3‑year project funded by Interreg Atlantic Area that aims to drive a collaborative approach to address all aspects of flood risk management from early warning services, prediction and prevention to post-flood emergency response. 

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Primrose Lodge Blue and Greenway Project

Primrose Lodge Blue and Greenway Project (PLBGP) is an ambitious project to convert the former Primrose Mill Lodge into a public open space within the heart of Clitheroe. 

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