Projects

Overlooking water - Paul Harris/2020VISION

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WHAT WE DO

Projects

We run a wide range of exciting projects involving people and wildlife, focused on protecting and enhancing our region's wild places.

Current projects

Catch My Drift

The initial phase of the Catch My Drift  project will allow the development of detailed plans to improve the land and habitat for people and wildlife on East Chevington nature reserve at Druridge Bay, Northumberland.

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Flexigraze

Flexigraze is an innovative social enterprise, specialising in grazing nature reserves and important grasslands throughout North East England. Flexigraze is not-for-profit, reinvesting any profits back into local conservation grazing.

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Green Influencers' Scheme

Are you aged 10 - 14 years with a passion to make a difference to the local environment? Then read on to find out more about this exciting new project and how you can get involved.

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Kielder Ospreys

Ospreys are spectacular fish-eating birds of prey with a wingspan of over five feet. They became extinct as a breeding bird in England in 1840 and in Scotland in 1916 primarily due to heavy persecution by Victorian egg and skin collectors. Although things are slowly improving for ospreys they are still considered rare.

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Living Landscapes

Living Landscapes is a vision for wildlife and people developed by The Wildlife Trusts. The idea is that by thinking big and collaborating on a larger scale than ever before, we can improve the landscapes of the UK for the benefit of our wildlife and people, both now and into the long-term future.

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Living Seas

Living Seas are The Wildlife Trusts’ vision for the future of the UK’s seas. Within Living Seas, marine wildlife thrives, from the depths of the ocean to the coastal shallows.  Around half the UK's wildlife lives in the sea – from microscopic plankton to mighty whales. But our seas are under pressure from all sides.

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Local Nature Partnerships

Local Nature Partnerships (LNPs) are a relatively new initiative, announced in the Natural Environment White Paper 2011, tasked with leading on biodiversity, green infrastructure, land restoration and catchment management. They bring together representatives from different sectors to make links between environmental action and wider economic and community priorities.

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Local Sites

Local Sites are a comprehensive network of sites of nature conservation importance, designated as either Local Wildlife Sites (LWS) or Local Geological Sites (LGS) according to their key features of interest. They provide refuges for wildlife and represent local character and distinctiveness, complementing other designation site networks.

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Naturally Native

Naturally Native will stop the decline of our native water voles in the North East of England and ensure they can, once again, thrive along our rivers, streams and ponds.

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Nextdoor Nature

Nextdoor Nature is bringing communities together to help nature flourish where they live and work! Thanks to £5 million funding from The National Lottery Heritage FundNextdoor Nature will provide people with the advice and support they need to help nature on their doorstep, and leave a lasting natural legacy in honour of the Queen’s Platinum.

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North East Community Forest

Northumberland Wildlife Trust is delighted to be working with the North East Community Forest partnership in 2022; supporting delivery of their 30-year vision to increase tree coverage across the forest area.

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Northumberland Peat Partnership

The Northumberland Peat Partnership aims to bring stakeholders together to collectively facilitate positive management and restoration of peatland habitats focussing on the Partnership Area; the area of Northumberland north of the A69, outside the North Pennines AONB.

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Northumbrian Water Environmental Partnership

In 2002, Northumberland Wildlife Trust and Northumbrian Water Limited formed a Partnership to deliver conservation work at the 140ha Bakethin Nature Reserve at the northern end of Kielder Reservoir.

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Red Squirrels Northern England (RSNE)

Red Squirrels Northern England (RSNE) is a red squirrel conservation partnership working across Northern England. Red Squirrels United is a UK wide network working together for the local survival of the UK’s iconic red squirrels for future generations.

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Red Squirrel Recovery Network (RSRN)

RSRN is an ambitious project which will work at a super-landscape scale to bring about lasting change for red squirrels, who would be lost in 10 years without continuous and extensive conservation effort.

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Restoring Ratty

Bringing the water vole back to Kielder. Water voles were once a common sight on our local waterways but sadly numbers have declined dramatically in recent years. However, NWT is currently involved in a project to restore water vole populations into the Kielder catchment of the north Tyne, with a view to their eventual spread throughout the catchment and surrounding areas

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Stronger Shores

The Stronger Shores project brings together leading academics, Wildlife Trusts and other nature conservation non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to improve understanding of the costs and benefits of kelp, seagrass and native oyster habitats with regard to coastal erosion, flood risk, climate change, biodiversity management and wider benefits.

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Wilder Northumberland Network

The Wilder Northumberland Network is an exciting, new network for nature recovery in Northumberland. The network seeks to connect land managers who are currently or would like to undertake nature recovery actions including wilding. The Wilder Northumberland Network will endeavour to increase connectivity across Northumberland, removing barriers to species movement whilst also creating more space for water and more space for trees and scrub.  

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Wilding West Chevington

A £2 million donation from The Reece Foundation has enabled Northumberland Wildlife Trust to purchase a 327-hectare piece of land at Druridge Bay as part of its bigger plans for a wilder Northumberland.

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Past projects

2020 Vision

2020 Vision is a dynamic people engagement project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.  The fund is designed to strengthen organisations and build the capacity of staff and volunteers to better manage heritage in the long-term.

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Beelines North East

Urban Green Newcastle and Northumberland Wildlife Trust were awarded a grant from the Government’s £40 million second round of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, a multi-million pound boost for green jobs and nature recovery.

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Coast Care

Coast Care was an initiative created to train, support and resource volunteers to contribute to the management and conservation of the Northumberland coastline from Berwick to Amble.

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Dynamic Druridge

The Dynamic Druridge project is the first step towards creating a connected mosaic of healthy habitats through Druridge Bay and, ultimately, a thriving landscape, rich in biodiversity, and well used by local people and visitors.

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Growing with Nature

Spending time in outdoor green spaces has proven to have a significant impact on our emotional, mental and physical health. NWT has created ‘Growing with Nature’, a five-week programme to offer adults (aged 25+) a safe space to engage in mindfulness-based activities in nature and learn new skills.

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Rescued from the Sea

Mesolithic remains, an early Bronze Age cemetery and ancient peat beds were just some of the heritage wonders excavated from the cliffs at Low Hauxley, Northumberland in 2013 in a partnership project between NWT and Archaeological Research Services Ltd, with a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund.

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Revitalising Redesdale

Revitalising Redesdale was a £2.8 million Landscape Partnership Scheme, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, which aimed to celebrate, conserve and enhance Redesdale’s rich cultural heritage, landscape and wildlife.

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Wildwood

Imagine standing in one of the wildest landscapes in England, looking up the valley and seeing Scots pine and native woodland stretching into the distance along a meandering burn. Black grouse forage below and golden eagles soar above.

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