Wear Rivers Trust

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Christmas Card Competition
30Oct

Christmas Card Competition

Calling all photographers…   Wear Rivers Trust are holding a competition to find the best River Wear (or Wear tributary) Winter themed photograph to…

The Scourge of Plastic Pollution
05Oct

The Scourge of Plastic Pollution

Peter Nailon, WRT Strategic Funding Director, has given recent talks on the scourge of plastic pollution to the Heritage Coast Partnership Annual Form https://durhamheritagecoast.org…

Appointment of Chief Operating Officer and Strategic Funding Director at Wear Rivers Trust
28Sep

Appointment of Chief Operating Officer and Strategic Funding Director at Wear Rivers Trust

After a very competitive recruitment process Kirstie Hutchinson, currently Office and Business Development Manager, has been appointed as the new WRT Chief Operating Officer,…

‘Big River Watch’
20Sep

‘Big River Watch’

22-24th September – Big River Watch Launch  This is your chance to make a difference…  This weekend of 22-24th September sees the exciting launch…

Wear Rivers Trust does the Great North Run!
11Sep

Wear Rivers Trust does the Great North Run!

Yesterday we had a team of ten out running the Great North Run for Wear Rivers Trust including members of staff, members of the…

Willow Weaving with our WSP Corporate Volunteers
11Sep

Willow Weaving with our WSP Corporate Volunteers

What a pleasure it was to have WSP, specialists in hydrology and hydraulic modelling, come volunteer with us last week! They were given the…

River Fest – A great success
18Aug

River Fest – A great success

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ppxc/look-north-north-east-and-cumbria-evening-news-17082023

Places Available For Fun & Food
15Aug

Places Available For Fun & Food

We have spaces available on Fun & Food on Wednesdays at Binchester Farm and Fridays at Quaking Houses Village Hall. Check out avaliability here.

Staff And Volunteers Improve Wetland
15Aug

Staff And Volunteers Improve Wetland

New Wear Rivers Trust Project Support Officers Jade and James enjoyed a day of practical work in Stanley after two days of induction. The…

Wear Rivers Trust proud to be involved with the Link Together project
09Aug

Wear Rivers Trust proud to be involved with the Link Together project

Wear Rivers Trust are proud to be working with Durham Wildlife Trust and Sunderland City Council on the Link Together project, working to increase…

Welcome to our new Project Support Officers
09Aug

Welcome to our new Project Support Officers

We welcome two new members to Wear Rivers Trust, Jade Harley and James Dodsworth both started with us on Monday 7th August as Project…

The Team have a new base!
09Aug

The Team have a new base!

As the Team is now growing and hopefully Covid 19 is behind us, we have decided the time is right to get a new…

Come and join us at our first Bishop River Fest
03Aug

Come and join us at our first Bishop River Fest

Free to attend and lots of activities throughout the day to get involved in

Great North Swim 2023
12Jun

Great North Swim 2023

The Girls Did It!! Kirstie our Office and Business Development Manager and Helen our Administrator took part in the Great North Swim 2023 on…

Jack promoted to Project Officer!
08Jun

Jack promoted to Project Officer!

Jack Butlin started working for WRT in January 2023 in a development role as Project Support Officer. This role is expected to progress to…

Wear Rivers Trust hosts EDF Corporate Volunteer Day
26May

Wear Rivers Trust hosts EDF Corporate Volunteer Day

Staff from EDF joined staff at Bear Park yesterday to stabilise the river banks using Green Engineering. Sarah Dewar a Senior Health and Safety…

Great news for Lisa Edge of Northeastshare!
10Mar

Great news for Lisa Edge of Northeastshare!

Women trailblazers in UK win over £2m in government funding including GB shared https://northeastshare.co.uk/news/women-trailblazers-in-uk-win-over-2m-in-government-funding-including-gb-shared

All our staff are Water Safety Trained!
07Mar

All our staff are Water Safety Trained!

Our staff took part last month in Water Safety Training delivered by the River Mountain Experience at Harehope Quarry. We are all now competent…