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…
NEWS AND UPDATES
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
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’
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!
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
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
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ppxc/look-north-north-east-and-cumbria-evening-news-17082023
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
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
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
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!
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
Free to attend and lots of activities throughout the day to get involved in
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!
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
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!
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!
Our staff took part last month in Water Safety Training delivered by the River Mountain Experience at Harehope Quarry. We are all now competent…