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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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30 projects

Urban river

Community Urban River Regeneration Fund

Funded by the Greggs Foundation, The Rivers Trust is managing a newly established Community Urban River Regeneration Fund.

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Wetland

Carbon Connects

Carbon Connects is a €4.5 million, 4‑year project funded by Interreg North West Europe that aims to reduce the carbon emissions and enhance carbon sequestration of degraded and mismanaged peatlands across North Western Europe.

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Lower Lough Erne ireland

Source to Tap

Source to Tap is an innovative and exciting, cross-border partnership project and aims to develop sustainable catchment-scale solutions for the protection of rivers and lakes. Source to Tap will focus on the River Erne and the River Derg Catchments which cross the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Brown trout

Your Fisheries

Your Fisheries will provide a common web-based planning system that brings together evidence and knowledge from a range of different sources, to inform catchment specific fisheries reports.

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Natural Course

Closed in 2024, Natural Course aimed to build capacity to protect and improve our water environment, both for the present and the future.

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Catchment Based Approach (CaBA)

The Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) embeds collaborative working at a river catchment scale, to deliver cross-cutting improvements to our water environment.

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Flooding

Flood Resilient Areas by Multi-layEr Safety Approach — FRAMES

Working in partnership with the National Flood Forum, we’re helping to lead a 3‑year project to help increase the resilience of communities and infrastructure, against flood risk in the UK.

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The Rivers Trust and the Catchment Based Approach welcome Defra’s new farming rules for water

Pinpoint

Working with farmers and land managers to reduce diffuse pollution from agriculture. PINPOINT is a partnership initiative between The Rivers Trust and Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF).

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Topsoil

The Topsoil project brings together partners from Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and the UK to explore and develop management solutions to a number of shared challenges across the North Sea Region.

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WaterCoG

Closed in 2020, WaterCoG collaborated with partners from Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and the UK to determine the benefits of a more collaborative (Co-Governance) approach to water management.

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