Keeping the Welland Cool: Community tree planting in Lubenham

On February 24^th, the Welland Rivers Trust held a community tree planting event in collaboration with the Woodland Trust and the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. By planting… Continue reading →

The state of the environment: water quality

By Environment Agency

Key findings:

• In 2016, 86% of river water bodies had not reached good ecological status. The main reasons for this are agriculture and rural land management, the water industry,… Continue reading →

The Great British Spring Clean

Fancy a day outdoors making a difference in the neighbourhood? Why not join the Welland Rivers Trust to clean up the area around the River Welland in Deeping St. James. The GB Spring Clean is… Continue reading →

Tree Planting

On February 10th, the WRT held a community tree planting event for the Keeping the Welland Cool project. Despite more wet and windy conditions, 7 volunteers helped us plant 35 saplings along the river in Duddington (Northamptonshire). … Continue reading →

Tree Planting Event- Lubenham February 24th

Three wildlife charities are inviting local people to help create a new woodland in the village of Lubenham by attending a community planting event on Saturday 24^th February from 10am to 1pm.… Continue reading →

Improving Spalding’s Riverside

Our project has been selected to go for public voting between March and April at the Tesco store in Holbeach.

Working in collaboration with the Spalding RiverSide Forum Community Group, the Welland Rivers Trust have applied for… Continue reading →

River Wardens

Our River Warden Project has been selected to go for public voting between March and April at Tesco stores across Peterborough and Stamford (Dogs Thorpe Express, Market Deeping, Peterborough Chadbrn Exp, Stamford Express, Werrington).

We have applied for… Continue reading →