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World Water Day 2024: Remarkable Rivers

For centuries, rivers have been a key part of human life. From helping our ancestors choose strategic locations for settlements, to revolutionising industrial processes, and helping us produce the food and water we need to survive. Of course, rivers are still influencing our lives here in the UK as a key part of our drinking …

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Bathing Water Designation to Ensure Ribble Valley River is ‘Safe to Splash’

Ribble Valley residents are one step closer to the designation of their very own Bathing Water site thanks to the Ribble Rivers Trust’s Safe to Splash campaign. In an announcement this week the Government shared plans to designate the largest ever number of new bathing water sites. In total there are 27 new sites that …

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Community Catchments: Empowering People, Fighting Floods

Rivers across Lancashire and North Yorkshire are receiving a very welcome boost thanks to funding from the Defra £25m Natural Flood Management Fund, which is managed by the Environment Agency. Ribble Rivers Trust, who will be managing the project alongside various partners including Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Heidelberg Materials, and Downham Estate, have been …

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Rivers and trees; nature’s dream team

In the rolling landscapes of Lancashire, where the countryside meets the water, there are hundreds of miles of riverside woodland. This unassuming habitat offers more than just a pretty view, it plays a vital role in addressing climate change and biodiversity concerns. So, let’s explore river woodlands and we’ll tell you why they are a …

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What is Natural Flood Management (NFM)?

Natural Flood Management (NFM) simply means using natural processes to regulate water flow and reduce flood risk. There are many diverse types of NFM strategies which are all slightly different. However, they all have something in common; they all have reconnecting and renaturalising river systems at their core. Here are some of the ways our …

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Restoring Hasgill Beck: A Brash Bundling Project for Healthy Rivers

Ribble Rivers Trust is embarking on an exciting project to restore the banks of Hasgill Beck, near Stocks Reservoir and Gisburn Forest. The Hasgill brash bundling project aims to combat severe erosion and enhance the natural beauty and biodiversity of the area. Located in the picturesque landscape of the Forest of Bowland, this project aims …

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RiverBlitz- A citizen science approach

What are RiverBlitz events? A RiverBlitz is one-day event where citizen scientists join together to collect information about water quality and biodiversity within a small area. The aim is to collect as much valuable data as possible. In particular, we focus on areas where there are gaps in knowledge, to help guide our future work …

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Wave Hello To Cleaner Beaches This Summer

Ribble Rivers Trust, in collaboration with Fylde council, has launched a people focussed campaign to combat litter and inspire Lancashire residents to “wave hello to cleaner beaches” this summer. The campaign aims to raise awareness about the detrimental impact of litter, encompassing issues such as food waste, packaging, dog waste, and plastic pollution on our …

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Inland Bathing Waters; what does it mean?

In the UK, we have over 600 bathing water sites, but just two of those are inland bathing waters.

Earlier last year Ribble Rivers Trust launched Safe to Splash. Our campaign for bathing water status. Ribble Rivers Trust submitted our application back in October and our aim is to secure bathing water status for a short stretch of the River Ribble where it passes through Clitheroe. The site is known as Edisford Bridge.

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Buy Nothing New Month

January is Keep Britain Tidy’s Buy Nothing New Month so, we’ve got some top tips to help you reduce the amount of stuff you buy.
After all, buying stuff we don’t need is bad for the planet, and for our pockets. Everyone has heard of the saying reduce, reuse, and recycle, but you can also repurpose, repair, and refurbish. Better still, rethink your choices, and don’t buy stuff in the first place!

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Three fun ideas for family winter walks

It’s January, and after a few weeks of feasting and festivities we’re all looking for cheap and healthy ways to have fun. Us grownups might find a bracing winter river walk invigorating, but it can be hard to convince the kids that a walk is anything short of an ordeal!
So, here are three of our favourite ways to liven up your family walks and help you enjoy some quality time together in the great outdoors.

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Philip Lord BEM

Our amazing outgoing chair Philip Lord has received a British Empire Medal for services to the environment.
As many of you know, Philip has been the driving force behind the Trust since it’s inception back in 1998. Thanks to his business expertise, passion for rivers, and sheer determination, Philip has taken the Trust from strength to strength and overseen amazing environmental improvements.

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Fish monitoring: A PARRticularly dry summer

Our fish monitoring team surveyed 294 sites between June and October!

Our surveys are carried out to monitor fish numbers, particularly salmonids, looking for the young of year.

This helps us to gauge the health of our rivers. It also means we can look for the areas which are doing well, and the areas which seem to be in poorer health.

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