News for Chalk streams

Earth Trust launches Growing Places project with Mend the Gap funding

We’re delighted to be supporting the Earth Trust to work with Oxfordshire employment charity ‘Aspire’, on a project to bring those at risk of homelessness and disadvantage closer to nature. Recent data shows that if a person is unemployed, living in an area of high deprivation or has a low income, they are significantly less...

Innovative groundwater flooding project launched in the Chiltern Hills

In the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs, almost 200 communities and 70,000 properties are at risk of groundwater flooding. Due to groundwater flooding typically affecting small rural communities, it can be hard for people to support one another. It also means that groundwater flooding often fails to qualify for flood management funding.

Introducing the brand new Chiltern Chalk Streams Project website

The Chilterns Chalk Streams project now has it’s own dedicated website!   In 2022, the Chiltern Chalk Streams project celebrates 25 years of this partnership set up to protect and enhance the precious and valuable chalk streams habitats of the Chilterns. The project has grown from a staff team of 1 to 7, and is...