Current partners projects

Four new enterprises receive a share of £500,000 in overall support, with £100,000 in funding allocated across the projects per year.

Upper Tone 360

Delivered by the Environment Agency, Catchment Sensitive Farming and Westcountry Rivers Trust with the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West, (FWAG SW), the Upper Tone 360 project will focus on engaging with farmers, landowners and communities to restore and protect the health of the River Tone and its tributaries and catchment in Somerset with its communities, to improve water quality and nature.

Dorset Wild Rivers

Delivered by Dorset Wildlife Trust, with Dorset National Landscape, FWAG SW and National Trust Purbeck Estate, this project will aim to recover wildlife diversity and abundance, particularly in protected and priority habitats and species (including chalk streams), and focus on establishing the conditions for nature recovery in wetland habitats.

Glorious Cotswold Grasslands

Cotswolds National Landscape’s long-term project aims to create and restore wildflower grasslands throughout the Cotswolds. The team will restore or create a further 40 hectares of species-rich grassland specifically within the portion of the Cotswolds National Landscape in Wessex Water’s region, between Tetbury in Gloucestershire and Bradford-on-Avon in west Wiltshire.

Healthy Headwaters

Wessex Rivers Trust plans to revitalise the Hampshire Avon by engaging with communities living in and around its headwaters, such as the Rivers Wylye, Till, Nadder, Ebble and Bourne. The project aims to educate about how domestic sources of pollution and household water consumption impact the health of the headwaters and catchment as a whole.