Fantastic news! South Cumbria Rivers Trust (SCRT) have been awarded funding from Tesco’s Bags of Help initiative. Thank you to everyone who voted!

The project, ‘What Lies Beneath – Helping your local beck’ will help local communities in Barrow & Ulverston connect with local becks and rivers, through a ‘what’s in your river day’, and training to monitor the health of a local river or beck. SCRT would like to support the community in Barrow and Ulverston to establish their own monitoring in the area and engage new audiences, including schools, with the underwater environments of their local becks. The project will also look to engage with schools and local children to run a ‘what’s in your river day’ including a close up look at riverflies and ‘river-based’ art. Please get in touch if you would like to be part of the project and keep an eye on our events pages.

If you are outside of Barrow & Ulverston please also get in touch as there are a number of opportunities through the Trust to get involved with monitoring your local area.

Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch it’s community funding scheme, which sees grants of up to £4,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all raised from carrier bag sales in Tesco stores – being awarded to local community projects such as this one by SCRT.