
Projects
Our project work includes practical river restoration, habitat management, research and monitoring, education and community engagement.
Projects
Hamble Brook Restoration
Completion Date: Ongoing Project Category: Catchment Management River: Chess Working on a catchment scale to restore one of the Chilterns’ finest chalk streams to health.
Smarter Water Catchment
Completion Date: Ongoing Project Category: Catchment Management River: Chess Working on a catchment scale to restore one of the Chilterns’ finest chalk streams to health.
Chess Valley Walk
Completion Date: Ongoing Project Category: Access River: Chess Access Improvements, improved way-marking and new interpretation for this much-loved route.
Ewelme Brook Community Project
Completion Date: Ongoing Project Category: Community River: Ewelme Brook Supporting the local community in the management of their chalk stream.
Water in a Dry Landscape
Completion Date: Ongoing Project Category: Research & Citizen Science River: Scarp Slope Streams Monitoring the health of the scarp slope streams.
Gadespring Discovery Days
Completion Date: June 2022 Project Category: Education & Engagement River: Bulbourne Delivering Education Activities for the first time on the River Bulbourne
River Chess Restoration, Latimer
Completion Date: November 2022 Project Category: River Restoration River: Chess Creating a better habitat for water voles at Restore Hope, Latimer.
Water Vole Recovery Scheme: R. Chess
Completion Date: Ongoing Project Category: Research & Citizen Science River: Chess Preventing the extinction of Water Voles from the Chilterns AONB.
The Chilterns, Hertforshire and Middlesex Riverfly Hub
Completion Date: Ongoing Project Category: Research & Citizen Science River: Chess Preventing the extinction of Water Voles from the Chilterns AONB.
Wye Dene, River Wye
Completion Date: 2018 Project Category: River Restoration River: Wye Restoring the chalk stream at this former watercress beds.
Bulbourne River Restoration
Completion Date: January 2017 Project Category: River Restoration River: Bulbourne River restoration along the Bulbourne to create a more natural chalk stream
High Wycombe Town Centre, River Wye
Completion Date: 2016 Project Category: River Restoration River: Wye Working with the community to restore an urban chalk stream.
Meades Water Garden: River Chess
Completion Date: June 2008 Project Category: River Restoration River: Chess Restoring chalk stream habitat through an ornamental lake in central Chesham