Ribble Rivers Trust

Do you work for a school in the Ribble Catchment? 🏫 You may not be aware but we do a wide variety of activities with schools from invasive species removal, river sampling and safety, site visits and project specific talks and activities! As part of the Ribble Revival: Room for Rivers Programme, we recently joined up with Bolton-by-Bowland C.E. primary school to talk about our upcoming work with leaky dams in the area and the benefits this will have for the local wildlife and community. If you'd like to know more about our school sessions, please email: education@ribbletrust.com #EnvironmentalEducation

Join us this November for some tree planting fun! 🌳 Ribble Rivers Trust is planting 7000 trees at Pope Lane to help extend SSSI Boilton Wood and encourage White-Letter Hairstreak Butterfly. Sessions start at on site at 10am and finish at 2/3pm, but you're welcome to stay for as long or short as you like. To book on, please visit the volunteering page on our website and scroll to the bottom to see all available dates. If you don't want to book on, you can turn up on the day, but we prefer people to book so we can record numbers and make sure we have enough equipment for everyone. We hope to see you there! #RibbleRiversTrust #TreePlanting #VolunteerUK #BoiltonWood #SSSI #ButterflyConservation #CommunityEvent

Anybody lost a kitchen sink? 💦 This is one of many weird and not so wonderful things we've found on our recent litter picks ☹️ As well as the obligatory shopping trolley, we’ve also fished out some a few bikes, a micro scooter, a vacuum cleaner and, of course, single use plastic, glass, metal, and general fly tipping 🛒🚲🛴 If you can spare some time to help us on our mission to clean up our rivers, then sign up to become a volunteer. It’s easy, flexible, and you take control of your commitment levels! Discover more here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eTVXGE_p #RiverHeroes #Volunteers #Litter #RiverCleanUps #LitterPicks

Let’s get planting! 🌳 Over the next few weeks, we’re planting trees at Pope Lane, Preston, with the help of our fabulous volunteers. Thank you to everyone that’s given us a hand so far 💚 Fancy getting your hands dirty and getting involved in conservation? When you sign up for our volunteer bulletin, we’ll email you every Monday with a list of upcoming volunteer days, if any take your fancy, just sign up and let us know you’ll be coming along! It’s that easy! Sign up here 👇 https://lnkd.in/dhJWnCVJ Check out our volunteer days here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eJFerTqm #RiverHeroes #Volunteers #TreePlanting #WoodlandCreation #PopeLane #Preston

Have you spotted a salmon yet this year? 🐟💦️👀 Last week we ran a guided walk around Stainforth, and we were lucky enough to spot some salmon jumping, and just look at that energy and power! 😍 Its amazing to see the stength these fish have, even though they've already travelled thousands of miles on their migration journey from the North Atlantic to North Yorkshire 🗺️🔍🐟 It's a treacherous journey, and the salmon will face may natural and manmade obstacles. Of course, predation is all part of the natural world, but man-made river-blocking barriers aren't! That's why our team work so hard to renaturalise our rivers, making them more passable, and making life a little easier for the salmon on this already risky journey. You can visit this exact site on our Stainforth circular walk, and hopefully you'll be lucky enough to spot a salmon 👇 https://lnkd.in/e3gGuJqC #SalmonRun #MigratorySalmon #FishMigration #Stainforth #WeekendWalks

Introducing one of our latest projects at Blackburn's Farm, Wrea Green 💚 Together we're working to create a new conservation area to support habitat for amphibians, invertebrates and a whole host of grassland and wetland species 🐸🐍🦎 The project will create a new wet grassland area, with ponds and scrapes which will be separated from the rest of the farm with a new hedgerow. The area is also being seeded with yellow rattle, which will reduce the coverage of dominant rye-grass, allowing the growth of rarer grass and wildflower species 🌻🐝 Discover more about the project, the partnership, and how this work benefits rivers in our latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/e2fnMNVj #Wetlands #Wildflowers #Hedgerows #HabitatCreation #WaterQuality #Rivers #BlackburnsFarm #WreaGreen

Our vacancies close today so, if you want to protect landscapes like this, make sure you apply! 👇 Our new Farm Advisor will be tasked with helping to support farm businesses in becoming more sustainable, with a balanced approached focusing on productivity and habitat improvements. Actions include improved farmyard infrastructure and nutrient management, through to creating new woodland and wetlands- and everything in between! The new Project Manager will work alongside colleagues, contractors and stakeholders to create and maintain new river improvement projects, delivering them in budget and to schedule. Projects include the creation of new leaky dams, wetlands, fish passes, and in river habitats, so we'd like someone with a good knowledge of river restoration. Discover more about the roles, and apply, on our website- https://lnkd.in/dCC9tjtV (website link in bio) #ConservationJobs #EnvironmentJobs #ClitheroeJobs #FarmAdvisor #ProjectManager #RiverRestration #FarmAdvice

🚨 Don't forget, our vacancies close tomorrow! 🚨 Ribble Rivers Trust are looking for an additional Farm Advisor and a Project Manager! Our new Farm Advisor will be tasked with helping to support farm businesses in becoming more sustainable, with a balanced approached focusing on productivity and habitat improvements. Actions include improved farmyard infrastructure and nutrient management, through to creating new woodland and wetlands- and everything in between! The new Project Manager will work alongside colleagues, contractors and stakeholders to create and maintain new river improvement projects, delivering them in budget and to schedule. Projects include the creation of new leaky dams, wetlands, fish passes, and in river habitats, so we'd like someone with a good knowledge of river restoration. Discover more about the roles, and apply, on our website- https://lnkd.in/dCC9tjtV (website link in bio) #ConservationJobs #EnvironmentJobs #ClitheroeJobs #FarmAdvisor #ProjectManager #RiverRestration #FarmAdvice

Ever heard of the Catchment Based Approach? It’s the approach we use to plan our river restoration work. The Catchment Based Approach looks after rivers by understanding that everything is connected- rainwater flows over hills and moorlands, through farms and fields, towns and industrial areas, picking up whatever's there before it reaches rivers. By managing this whole journey together, we can keep rivers cleaner, healthier, and better for both wildlife and people. That’s why our work goes beyond rivers. We plant trees, create woodlands, engineer wetlands, restore peat bogs, gather data, deliver education sessions, collaborate with community groups, and much more! All these efforts are connected through rivers, which act as the thread weaving together different habitats and landscapes. By working with communities across various environments, we can strengthen this web of habitats, with rivers tying it all together, from source to sea #CatchmentBasedApproach #CaBA #HabitatConnectivity #Rivers #RiverRestoration

We are recruiting! Our team are looking to recruit a Farm Advisor and a Project Manager to join our team. The new Farm Advisor will undertake farm advisory visits, and lead and support the delivery of a range of agricultural and environmental projects. The new Project Manager will work on a range of river improvement projects, from project conception, through to delivery, and beyond. Find our more about both roles, and apply, on our website: https://lnkd.in/dCC9tjtV #ConservationCareers #ConservationJobs #EnvironmentalCareers #EnvironmentalJobs #ClitheroeJobs #LancashireJobs