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Lockdown 2 got you feeling blue? We might just have a remedy to put a positive spin on the current situation! During the first lockdown, our local green and blue places became vital places of refuge, reflection and positivity as…...

What is Our Welland – Heritage, Health and Home? Over the past decade, health and wellbeing professions have communicated the positive effects access to green and blue space can have on our mental and physical health. This year, the COVID-19…...

Welland catchment native India Grice has just graduated from the University of Sheffield with a 1st class BSc in Geography. During her degree the issue of plastic pollution in freshwater environments caught her attention and she used her thesis to…...

Following months of delays due to poor weather and the COVID-19 pandemic, two weeks of heavy digging have finally transformed a field corner on a country estate into a new watery paradise for native wildlife! Five Rivers Environmental Contracting were engaged…...

A new mapping and catchment information tool has now been released to aid in the development of new projects to improve the River Welland catchment. The Welland Valley Partnership Catchment Mapping Portal is designed to collate and display a wealth…...

The Welland Valley Partnership is the steering group of organisations working collaboratively to improve the River Welland catchment for its people and wildlife. The Welland Rivers Trust chairs and coordinates this partnership, and a renewed sense of purpose and motivation…...

The first new volunteers of 2020 for our popular River Wardens project have now been trained and are getting stuck into monitoring water quality and biodiversity on their local water courses.  Clear skies over the past week have finally allowed…...

Sitting alongside the River Welland in Stamford, the Freeman’s Meadows are a much loved green lung for the town, inviting walkers to explore its well trodden paths, families to picnic in the long grass and anglers to throw a line…...