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How external funding is helping Natural England's work

Find out how grants from the EU and the Heritage Lottery Fund help projects in the natural environment.

Current projects

Projects with their own website:

  • Back from the Brink - to save 20 species of England’s wildlife from extinction and help others on the road to recovery
  • Bats in churches - to provide innovative solutions to support the use and maintenance of churches which have bat roosts
  • Dynamic Dunescapes - to restore sand dunes in England and Wales for the benefit of people, communities and wildlife
  • Great Fen - to create a fenland landscape around 2 National Nature Reserves in Cambridgeshire
  • Hoveton Great Broad restoration - to restore a Norfolk broad to a species-rich wildlife haven
  • Isles of Scilly seabird recovery - to control the islands’ rat population and protect their seabirds
  • LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES project - to improve the condition of at-risk seagrass and maerl bed habitats in 5 project areas, and reduce the negative impact of recreational boating activities, such as mooring and anchoring
  • Little Tern recovery - to restore and create little tern habitat and protect colonies for the future
  • Meres and Mosses landscape partnership scheme - to improve the value of this wetland landscape for the people and wildlife that live in and around it in Shropshire and Cheshire
  • Natural Course - to improve and protect water quality in north-west England
  • Rapid Reduction of Nutrients in Transitional Waters - to enhance and protect coastal and transitional water ecosystems in France, the Channel and England
  • Restoring the Humberhead Peatlands - to increase the area of peat bog habitat under restoration, improve rare habitats and support research and monitoring
  • Revitalising Redesdale - to protect and enhance the landscape and wildlife around the River Rede in Northumberland
  • Unlocking the Severn - to reopen the River Severn and lower River Teme for fish species, and reconnect people with their natural and cultural heritage through a fish, the twaite shad

Projects on GOV.UK:

Closed projects

Published 4 July 2017
Last updated 23 June 2021 + show all updates
  1. LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES project now has its own website: https://saveourseabed.co.uk/the-project/

  2. Added LIFE in the Ravines project.

  3. We've added a link to the Rapid Reduction of Nutrients in Transitional Waters project

  4. Added the LIFE Recreation ReMEDIES project - report on funding to protect seagrass and maerl beds.

  5. Link to the Dynamic Dunescapes website added.

  6. First published.