My volunteering journey - Chris Jerome

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• Skills for a greener future

Mary Hon - Trainee Placement

Mary joined us on the Access to Eden project via its ‘Skills for a greener future’ programme; helping young people take their first steps into an environmental career. 

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• Tackling climate change
• Farming and land management

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Not just spades in the ground - growing trees the natural (colonisation) way

When it comes to creating woodland, sometimes you can let nature take the lead. Anna Holliday, our Farming and Conservation Officer, talks about natural colonisation.

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• Resilient rivers
• Nature recovery
• Tackling climate change

Nurturing natural rivers and wildlife havens: celebrating three years of habitat improvements in the Trout Beck catchment

On a sunny Saturday in March, we marked the end of our EU funded Water Environment Grant project on the Trout Beck with a celebration day for members of the community and…

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• Working with communities

Rambling around Eden

Not everybody has the confidence, skills and transport to take themselves off for a gentle countryside stroll and benefit from the healing powers of Eden’s beautiful rivers. So,…

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• Resilient rivers
• Nature recovery

Re-wiggling our way to a wetter, wilder Bowber Head

We have completed a major river restoration and natural flood management (NFM) partnership project at Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s Bowber Head Farm Nature Reserve.

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• Resilient rivers

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Removing barriers in the river

A £328k natural flood management (NFM) and habitat improvement partnership project working at a catchment scale to identify and install a wide variety of natural flood management…

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• Nature recovery
• Tackling climate change

Right tree, right place

We all know the multiple benefits trees bring to our landscape. They provide us with oxygen, shade, rainfall interception, ground stability and protection from erosion. They…

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• Resilient rivers

Taking a 'Stage Zero' approach to river restoration

We were granted funding in 2017 to develop a river restoration project on the Bessy Gill near Thrimby Cottages as part of the Cumbria River Restoration Strategy (RRS), led by the…

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• Resilient rivers
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Thrimby river restoration

We worked in partnership on a major river restoration scheme to safeguard a vital transport route, address local flooding concerns, and create valuable wildlife habitat.

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• Resilient rivers
• Nature recovery

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Trout Beck habitat improvements

We’ve been working in the Trout Beck catchment since 1999. Over that time we’ve delivered a huge variety of small scale habitat improvement projects.

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• Farming and land management

Water Works: A new approach to farmer events

We spend a lot of time working with farmers and landowners, helping them maintain profitable farming businesses whilst delivering key environmental benefits.

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• Resilient rivers
• Farming and land management

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We’ll drink to that! A joined-up approach to protecting Eden’s drinking water supplies

Over the past year, we have led a partnership project that has worked together to reduce pollutants reaching an important drinking water supply at Bowscar. 

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