Exploring ‘Blue’ opportunities along Queen Charlton Brook
BART have started the exciting process of a ‘Blue’ feasibility study along the Queen Charlton Brook Charlton.
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Bristol Avon Rivers Trust Launches New Farm Cluster Initiative in Chew Valley and Cam & Wellow Catchments
The Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) proudly announces the launch of the “Farmer-led Nature Recovery Initiative,” a farm cluster project aimed at fostering sustainable agriculture and ecological resilience across the…
Radstock residents connect with their river
Radstock residents have been taking part in river events and helping install rain planters.
Baby eels back in schools
Endangered eels have been back in local classrooms being looked after by pupils and released into the wild.
RiverBlitz 2024 Results Revealed
Citizen science results show high levels of nutrient pollution in our rivers during RiverBlitz 2024.
Working to restore Patchway Brook
We’ve been installing river-restoring berms into Patchway Brook, North Bristol.
Natural Flood Management at Yate Common
Leaky dams and large woody debris are slowing the flow in Yate Common.
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust : Impact 2023
Indicators of Our Success: Beyond the Numbers At Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, we’ve had another dynamic and impactful year. Our team has grown significantly, expanding from 8 to 12 members…
Working to restore Stoke Brook at 40 Acres
We’ve been out with enthusiastic volunteers adding berms to Stoke Brook, North Bristol.
Working to restore Pickedmoor Rhine
We have been out in the Pickemoor Rhine adding structure using ‘woody berms’ to this over straightened river.
Adding structure to the Little Avon
We have been out in the Little Avon adding structure to the river to boost natural processes and improve diversity.
River dipping delights kids and communities
The Co-op funded a series of fantastic events in the Chew and Bristol Frome catchments. Kids and adults alike had a wonderful time connecting to their river.
Adding structure to the Sherston Avon
BART have been adding structure to the Sherston Avon at Easton Grey with help from volunteers. This will help improve the health of the river.
Bringing Eels Back to the Cam and Wellow
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) is preparing to deliver work to improve habitat for the critically endangered European Eel, Brown Trout, River Lamprey and other aquatic species on the Cam…
Want to be a Water Guardian?
Want to help monitor the rivers in the Bristol Avon Catchment? Maybe you could become a Water Guardian…
The Bristol Avon Fish Recovery Strategy is here!
The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world- with species declining, habitats in poor condition and millions of people living without access to nature. In…
RiverBlitz 2023 results reveal high nutrient levels
Freshwater habitats account for some of the richest biodiversity in the world, and rivers are a crucial ecosystem for both wildlife and people. The more we learn about them and…
Boosting wellbeing on the Little Avon
BART have been running a ‘Rivers for Wellbeing’ project that aims to reconnect communities with their local rivers and streams to improve mental and physical wellbeing. Research shows that spending…
Eels back in schools
BART’s Eels in the Classroom (EiTC) 2023 project has been another great success! EiTC is an annual project that BART run in several primary schools throughout the Bristol Avon catchment.…
RiverBlitz 2023: Call for Citizen Scientists!
The annual Bristol Avon RiverBlitz is returning on the 7th -14th of July! After seven successful years, we are hopeful that enthusiastic citizen scientists will sign up in record numbers…
Stoke Brook river habitat restoration
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, with the support of a team of local volunteers, have been restoring river habitat along a tributary of the Bristol Frome, the Stoke Brook which flows…
Working to restore the River Marden
The team at BART have been busy undertaking in-stream habitat restoration on the River Marden near Calne. This work, made possible through funding from Calne Without Parish Council (CWPC), aims…
Workshops in schools: Lego houses and sustainable drainage
BART have been out delivering school workshops about how Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) can help look after our rivers. We visited four classes at two schools near the Bristol Frome…
Bristol Frome Natural Flood Management
BART have been busy implementing a Natural Flood Management scheme along the Patchway Brook and the Stoke Brook, both tributaries of the Bristol Frome river. BART have been delivering this…
Yellow Fish raise awareness in Eastville
Did you know that surface road drains lead directly into your local watercourse? Anything other than rain poured down the drain, such as litter, car oils, detergents, weed killers or…
Bristol Avon RiverBlitz results are in!
An amazing effort by 87 Citizen Scientists resulted in the 2022 Bristol Avon RiverBlitz being a huge success! From the 11th to 18th July, volunteers took part in important water…
Improving rivers in Calne
The BART team have been busy working away to improve the habitat for wildlife along the River Marden and Abberd Brook in Calne. River Marden Following the small weir…
Environmental DNA sampling in Bristol Floating Harbour & Lower Avon
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) worked in partnership with Bristol City Council and Nature Metrics to carry out a pilot environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis of individual species and communities of…
Our Blue Spaces Programme in the Cam and Wellow
The Cam and Wellow Brooks fall within an area, connecting the Cotswolds and Mendip Hills Areas Of Natural Beauty (AONB), identified as the Limestone Link which provide opportunities to enhance…
“BART River Detectives” Project Recruits Citizen Scientists
In an effort to increase and improve water quality monitoring, at a time when Environment Agency monitoring is being reduced, BART are leading a citizen science ‘BART River Detectives’ project…
Riverfly 2022 Update
Thank you very much to those of you who have supported us with riverfly monitoring throughout 2022. The Riverfly Monitoring Initiative uses citizen science to get people out and about…
SuDS Rain Planters for Schools
We have installed seven fantastic rain planters and two water butts in three schools in the River Chew Catchment. The rain planters, made from steel cattle troughs, divert rain from…
World Rivers Day 2022 – Bristol Frome River Cleans
World Rivers Day is a celebration of the world’s waterways and helps to raise awareness of the many benefits of rivers and aims to encourage people to become more engaged…
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust in 2021
Simon Hunter, Chief Executive, looks back at BART’s recent achievements Since the Winter 2021 newsletter edition, the public and political focus on rivers and the issues that affect them has arguably been…
Bristol Avon RiverBlitz 2022
The Bristol Avon RiverBlitz (formally Waterblitz) returns for the sixth consecutive year this July! We have watched this citizen science project expand year on year and we expect even more…
Yellow Fish in Yate
Volunteers from Yate have been out learning about and raising awareness of water quality in the Bristol Frome. Members from the local community teamed up to spray yellow fish stencils…
Eels in the Classroom 2022
Our Eels in the Classroom 2022 project has been a great success due to the fantastic effort from all pupils and teachers involved! This project is lead by BART and…
Using SmartRivers evidence – taking water quality action on the River Chew
To better understand the water quality pressures influencing the River Chew, Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) enrolled onto the Salmon & Trout Conservation (S&TC) SmartRivers project in 2019. After two…
Yellow Fish in the Bristol Frome
Only Rain Down the Drain! Did you know that surface drains at the sides of roads lead directly to your local watercourse? This means that anything poured down the surface…
BART is 10 Years Old!
Julian Greaves, BART’s Chair and one of the founders, reflects on what BART has achieved in the last 10 years. Well, when it was brought to my attention that BART…
River Cleans 2021
Throughout 2021, BART led a number of river clean events throughout the Bristol Avon catchment. Our team and our dedicated volunteers have removed an astounding amount of rubbish, including trolleys…
BART Active in the Calne Community
BART has been busy in the Marden Valley over the past several months and as part of this programme of work, we’ve carried out a Sustainable Homeowner Water Management campaign…
Finding Pharmaceuticals in our Rivers
The 18th – 24th November marks the WHO World Antimicrobial Awareness (AMR) week each year – so now seems a very appropriate time to give you a brief update on…
Nature Based Solutions on the Candlestick Stream
The BART team have delivered a series of nature based solutions on a tributary of the River Chew, Bath and North East Somerset. Through the Environment Agency’s Water Environment Improvement Fund (WEIF),…
Stoke Brook Restoration – Bristol Frome
BART and a team of local volunteers have been restoring river habitat in Stoke Brook, a tributary of the Bristol Frome which flows through Three Brooks Nature Reserve. During October…
River Marden Weir Removal: Castlefields Park, Calne, Wiltshire
BART is currently planning to deliver the removal of a small weir at Castlefields Park, Calne, Wiltshire, with the aim of improving freshwater habitat throughout the park. This weir…
Nature Based Solutions in the Winford Brook
BART has kicked off its summer programme of works at a farm near Regil, North Somerset, in the headwaters of the Winford Brook catchment. A series of bunded scrapes to capture surface water run off and attenuate…
Sustainable Water Use Project on the Bristol Frome
BART has carried out a Sustainable Homeowner Water Management campaign in the Yate and Chipping Sodbury areas in South Gloucestershire. BART have identified these communities as target areas for the…
Eels in the Classroom 2021
We are very pleased to share a summary of our Eels in the Classroom (EiTC) 2021 project delivered with several schools throughout the Chew Valley! EiTC is a BART staple,…
Bristol Avon WaterBlitz 2021 results are in!
An outstanding effort by 193 Citizen Scientists led to the 2021 Bristol Avon WaterBlitz being an exceptional success! From 9th to 16th of July, volunteers participated in important water quality…
Bristol Avon WaterBlitz 2021 – 1 Week to Sign Up!
The Bristol Avon WaterBlitz returns this July, and it’s bigger than ever! BART is encouraging as many citizen scientists as possible to get out to their local watercourse and sample…
Bristol University – Project Medusa
Looking after our precious freshwater ecosystems amongst the myriad of other environmental and social challenges sometimes seems impossible and that our voices are drowned by more immediately pressing societal matters…
Eels are back in the classroom!
150 European eels have been delivered to 3 schools in the Chew Valley as part of BART’s Eels in the Classroom project. Despite the uncertainty of project delivery due to…
Citizen Science at the Land Yeo WaterBlitz
A fantastic effort by 65 Citizen Scientists made the 2021 Land Yeo WaterBlitz a huge success! Between Friday 7th and Monday 10th of May keen river guardians descended on the…
Assessing the status of the Little Avon headwaters
BART is working in partnership with the Cotswolds Champions Programme from the Cotswolds National Landscape to assess the condition of the Little Avon headwaters which rise within the Cotswold AONB.…
Wilder Waterways: restoring the Land Yeo!
Working collaboratively with Avon Wildlife Trust, BART will deliver and promote a catchment-based approach to enhancing the natural capital of the Land Yeo river and its surrounding landscape. The Wilder…
Postcode Local Trust supports BART’s work on the Bristol Frome
We are very pleased to announce that we have received an award from Postcode Local Trust, a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. The award will enable…
Project Update: Delivering Nature-Based Solutions in the Winford Brook
Saturday 21st November 2020 saw volunteers from the local community and further afield descend on a farm near Winford, Chew Valley, for a socially-distanced tree planting event. Tree planting marked…
“Nature Based Solutions” in South Brook
The first phase of delivery in the South Brook catchment has been delivered by BART, aiming to ‘slow the flow’ of surface water during peak rainfall events. In 2018 &…
Project Update: Delivering nature-based solutions in the Winford Brook
BART has implemented nature-based solutions to deliver multiple benefits in the Winford Brook catchment. As a result of a combination of desktop research and walkover investigations to ground-truth opportunities, BART…
Congresbury Yeo River Channel Improvements
BART have implemented measures to reduce the impact of suspended sediment and open up the dense tree canopy to encourage habitat diversity within an over wide section of the Congresbury…
Bristol Avon WaterBlitz 2020
Bristol Avon WaterBlitz is Back! BART are thrilled to announce that we will be running our annual citizen science event: the Bristol Avon WaterBlitz. BART is working in partnership with…
River Chew eDNA Pilot Project
BART is leading an exciting eDNA pilot project to explore the effects of potential river obstructions on the distribution of fish species such as the Atlantic salmon, European eel, trout,…
BART is back! Project Delivery Update
We are excited to share the news that we are returning to our rivers and streams during June. Thanks to the flexibility shown by project funders during this unprecedented time…
“Nature Based Solutions” in South Brook
BART has been attending site visits to gain landowner permissions within the South Brook catchment for the delivery of the Natural Flood Management (NFM) works. Schemes have been identified via BART’s…
Congresbury Yeo Habitat Improvements
During November 2019, BART’s operations team delivered the initial phase of practical habitat improvements on the Congresbury Yeo, directly downstream of Bristol Water’s Blagdon Lake spillway. BART led a team…
River Chew Fisheries Improvement Project
Taking place between May 2019 and March 2020, The River Chew Fisheries Improvement Project is a partnership project funded by the Environment Agency and Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership. Project funding provided BART with…
SmartRivers Initiative for the River Chew
BART signed up to the SmartRivers Initiative in 2019 and undertook our first sampling in November 2019 on the River Chew. SmartRivers is a scheme spearheaded by Salmon and Trout Conservation…
River Chew Catchment Project: Keynsham Memorial Park Weir
BART are exploring options with partners to improve the condition of the River Chew through Keynsham Memorial Park for the benefit to people and wildlife. BART is leading the River…
“Working with Natural Processes” in the Winford Brook
BART has installed a series of ‘leaky dams’ that will help contribute towards “slowing the flow” and deliver for multiple benefits along a small tributary of the Winford Brook This…
Caring for the Cam
BART have completed the final phase of our “Caring for the Cam” project, helping to improve the health of the Cam Brook near Bath for the benefit of wildlife and…
Little Avon Fisheries Habitat Improvements
During October 2019, BART’s operations team delivered a habitat restoration project on the Ozleworth Brook, a tributary of the Little Avon in South Gloucestershire. A volunteer works party from Charfield…
Only Rain Down the Drain: addressing water quality issues in the Bristol Frome
BART are working on a catchment scale to address the sources of pollution impacting the Bristol Frome. The Only Rain Down the Drain engagement project aimed to educate businesses on…
Caring for the Cam: Project Update
BART have been working hard to address water quality issues and improve habitat for wildlife on the Cam Brook, Midford. The Caring for the Cam project is being funded by…
Forgotten Landscape Project: Identifying the barriers to eel migration
BART are investigating the migratory passage of European eels in the Lower Severn Vales as part of the Forgotten Landscape Project. We are aiming to assess the success of eel…
Bristol Avon Waterblitz 2019
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust are excited to announce the 2019 Bristol Avon WaterBlitz; a yearly campaign to collect as many water quality samples as possible in a week from across…
River Chew Fisheries Improvement Strategy
During 2019, BART will be delivering a River Chew Fisheries Improvement Strategy to develop improvement plans which could be made to the river as a fishery. The work will build…
River Chew Catchment Project
We are excited to announce that we are leading the development of a new collaborative Chew Catchment Project designed to bring together local community groups in a mutual mission to…
Caring for the Cam
BART have gratefully received funding from players of People’s Postcode Lottery for improvement works along the Cam Brook at Midford. BART will be delivering a suit of work to build…
Little Avon Fisheries Habitat Enhancement
BART has recently completed the delivery of fisheries habitat improvements throughout a stretch of the Little Avon. BART’s operations team teamed up with volunteers from Charfield Angling Association to install…
Project Update: Opening up Norton Brook (tributary of the Wellow Brook) to fish
The BART team have been busy this week removing several large blockages from the course of the Norton Brook. The blockages were deemed barriers to fish at most flow conditions…
Restoring the Wellow, Midford & Cam Brooks
BART has recently secured funding via the Environment Agency’s Water & Environment Improvement Fund to deliver habitat enhancement projects in two locations along the Cam & Wellow Brooks. The project…
Eel in the Classroom 2018
Now we’ve had time to sit back and reflect on another year of our Eel in the Classroom project, we would like to share with you our progress in 2018.…
The Bristol Avon Waterblitz returns!
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) is excited to announce the 2018 Bristol Avon WaterBlitz; a campaign to collect as many water quality samples as possible in a week from across…
River Marden 2018 fisheries improvements
Project background In 2017, Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) applied to the Environment Agency’s ‘Fisheries Improvement Fund’ following a walkover survey of the entire length of the river and several small…
Can you help us to improve the River Marden in Calne, Wiltshire?
We are looking for volunteers to take part in a river restoration project which is taking place from 26th February – 2nd March and on the 5th and 7th March…
The Magnificent Marden Project continues to grow
BART have been working to improve the River Marden in Calne for a number of years now. To date, this has included in-stream habitat works, local engagement with presentations, education…
Thank you volunteers!
In 2017 our wonderful volunteers contributed 4226.5 hours to BART to help restore and protect our rivers! We would like to say a huge thank you to every single one…
Walkover surveys find room for improvement!
BART have been very busy recently, travelling all over the catchment doing walkover surveys and writing advisory reports for river improvement projects including the Corston, Newton, and Nunney Brooks and…
Eel surveying on Blagdon Lake
Back in October we worked with West Country Rivers Trust and Bristol Water to begin an eel escarpment study on Blagdon Lake reservoir in Somerset. It was a week of…
Working with Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
Here at BART we like to give other ‘watery’ organisations a helping hand, so we spent a couple of weeks with the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Water Team to help out…
Eels return to a classroom near you in 2018!
BART are happy to announce that in spring 2018 we will be running our incredibly popular Eel in the Classroom project, thanks to funding from the Greggs Foundation! The Greggs…
Electrofishing surveys on the Wellow Brook
Thanks to funding from the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership, BART carried out electrofishing surveys on the Wellow Brook this summer. The study was undertaken to provide part of a set…
A summer of ecological surveys
BART’s ecologist, Jessy Grant, has been busy this summer with lots of exciting ecological monitoring projects for both BART and external clients. Here’s more information about some of our ecological…
A month on the Wellow Brook
After working on the Wellow Brook for the whole of September we have finished this section of river restoration work! We have had a fantastic few weeks building in-stream habitat…
Bringing back curves to the River Biss
September is always a busy month for BART with fieldwork and river restoration, and this year was no exception. As we need to avoid the trout spawning season which begins…
Work begins to improve the Wellow Brook
So here we are in September, our busiest month of the year for in-stream habitat improvement works and it feels like just yesterday we were finishing up our works on…
Bristol Avon Waterblitz – the results!
The results are in and the Bristol Avon Waterblitz is now over! This is the first year that BART have run the Waterblitz, and it was a great success with…
Somerset Frome Sediment Pathways Project
BART have completed a very interesting and useful project funded by the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership this Spring. Sediment entering watercourses can have a detrimental effect on aquatic ecology, including…
Duchy of Cornwall river surveys
BART have been busy over the last few months undertaking a variety of river surveys on Duchy of Cornwall estate land near to Bath, including: In-stream and riparian habitat surveys…
Your Fisheries
BART have completed the first phase of the pilot Your Fisheries Pilot project which is taking place across the country on behalf of the Rivers Trust, Angling Trust and Environment…
Electrofishing surveys
This BART worked with Five Rivers Environmental Contractors carrying out electrofishing surveys along the Midford Brook and Wellow Brook near to Bath. These surveys were conducted at a number of…
Giving the Frome Fairies a helping hand
We love being able to give local community groups a hand, especially when they’re doing something to help the river! Our Project Officer Harriet went to get her hands dirty…
Bristol Festival of Nature 2017
From the 9th-11th June, BART set up camp at the Bristol harbourside for the Bristol Festival of Nature 2017! Working to promote the Bristol Avon Waterblitz, we were on a…
Riverfly Monitoring training 2017
As the Riverfly Hub for the Bristol Avon catchment, BART is responsible for recruiting and training new volunteers as Riverfly monitors. This is part of the Anglers Riverfly Monitoring Initiative…
Eel in the Classroom – the big release!
Over 100 pupils from 6 different primary schools across Wiltshire, Bristol and Somerset have been out and about in local rivers releasing over 600 young European Eels which they have…
Bristol Avon WaterBlitz 2017
BART are excited to announce the 2017 Bristol Avon WaterBlitz, a campaign to collect as many water quality samples as possible in one week from the Bristol Avon and its…
Midsomer Norton disussion evening
We had a successful evening in Midsomer Norton with the Town Council and local community discussing our new Our Wonderful Wellow project. The event in Midsomer Norton Town Hall was…
Chew Magna primary school – river explorers!
Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund Awards for All programme, BART spent the day with some very excited children from Chew Magna Primary School. The children couldn’t wait…
Extending the ‘Our Wonderful Wellow’ project
BART are proud to announce that we are extending the ‘Our Wonderful Wellow’ project to include the area of river by Stoney Littleton, Wiltshire. This project will involve a program…
Somerset Frome Sediment Pathways project update
Thanks to funding from the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership, BART has been busy on the upper Somerset Frome since October working on our Diffuse Pollution Sediment Pathways Project. Sediment entering…
Our Wonderful Wellow Meeting
We pleased to be teaming up with Midsomer Norton Town Council on a project to improve the Wellow Brook. This local initative aims to enchance the community conservation space along…
BART’s ‘Our Wonderful Wellow’ project teams up with Midsomer Norton Town Council
We are pleased to be working with Midsomer Norton Town Council to improve the Wellow Brook, thanks to funding from Postcode Local Trust. The following article is from the Midsomer…
NEW 2017 Riverfly training sessions
Thanks to funding from Big Lottery Fund‘s Awards for All programme, BART are pleased to announce that we will be running 4 new Riverfly Partnership training sessions. These one day sessions…
Celebrating #WorldWetlandsDay for the eel
This #WorldWetlandsDay, some of the BART Team will be spending the day at Steart Marshes in Somerset continuing a vitally important project to monitor population levels of the European eel…
Citizen Science Water Quality Monitoring Project
Thanks to funding from the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership, BART will be working with 8 Riverfly monitors, 5 community groups, 5 schools and 5 farmers to monitor chemical water quality…
Bristol Frome Restored Project
This project is funded by the Environment Agency as a continuation of the Bristol Frome Pollution Project completed last year on behalf of the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership. The aim…
NEW PROJECT!: Somerset Frome Diffuse Pollution Pathways
The Somerset Frome Diffuse Pollution Pathways project will use a risk grading approach to develop sediment pathway maps for the upper Somerset Frome (South of the town of Frome). To…
NEW PROJECT! Beneath the Waterline – Minibeast Citizen Science
Thanks to funding from the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards 4 All programme, BART are excited to announce that we have received funding to run 4 new Riverfly Partnership training sessions…
Wellow boulder weir removal
This month, thanks to funding from the Environment Agency Fisheries Fund, we have completed the removal of three boulder weirs on the Wellow Brook below Wellow, Bath. The boulder weirs have caused silt to…
NEW PROJECT! Your Fisheries
Thanks to funding from the Bristol Avon Catchment Partnership, BART are participating in a National pilot project called ‘Your Fisheries’, which aims to understand fisheries within the catchment. Your Fisheries, provides a…
NEW PROJECT: LoCATE Bristol Frome
Greggs Foundation – Environmental Education for Local Communities BART are pleased to announce that we have received support from the Greggs Foundation to run our LoCATE Project alongside the Bristol…
View from a volunteer – Maddie
September 2016 – Volunteering for 2 weeks “I am an Environmental Science student studying at the University of Southampton and have a great time getting stuck in with some…
Midford Brook habitat enhancement project
The Midford Brook habitat enhancement project was an initiative funded by Wessex Water to work with Avon and Tributaries Angling Association (ATAA) to restore a section of river suffering from…
The BART April – June newsletter is now out!
Our April – June newsletter is now out – there’s been a lot going on! You can view it here: http://tinyurl.com/zopbnpl If you’re not already subscribed, you can do this…
Southmead Open Space (SOS) Project
We have just come to the end of the first phase of our Southmead Open Space (SOS) Project, which involved a litter pick and river dipping sessions to encourage the community ownership and…
New Project: LoCATE Somerset Frome
BART are excited to announce that we have received funding to run our LoCATE (Local Community Action Through Education) Project in Frome, Somerset, thanks to a grant from the Michael…
Fixing the Frome
Fixing the Frome Despite being a prominent feature through the town of Frome, the River Frome is suffering from a number of issues that are affecting the health of the river…
Magnificent Marden Project – End of Phase 1
The Magnificent Marden Project (Phase 1) was an initiative to restore a popular section of the River Marden through Castlefields Park, Calne, that was suffering from various anthropogenic impacts.…
Glass Eel Citizen Science Project
The eel is a critically endangered species, more endangered than the snow leopard and the tiger. Bristol is one of the leading European forces in saving the eel. As…
Call for volunteers! – Magnificent Marden Project
Does your company fancy an environmental team bonding day? Do you live locally to Calne and would like to help out? Bristol Avon Rivers Trust are looking for volunteers for…
NEW! – Magnificent Marden Project
BART are pleased to announce that we have received funding from the Environment Agency and Wessex Water to partially fund a river improvement project on the River Marden in Wiltshire.…
Sherston habitat enhancement works
The last week of September was a busy one for us, with a full week of in-stream works for our SHRIMP (SHerston River IMProvement) Project. The aim of this…
BART goes floral
Wildflower meadow planting Meadows and grasslands were once an intrinsic part of British agriculture, bursting with colour and the hum of insects, but it has now been estimated that these important…
Our rivers in history… The RiTCH Project
River Trym Communities and Heritage (RiTCH) Project BART have come to the end of our Heritage Lottery funded RiTCH Project on the Trym through Blaise Castle, which aimed to highlight…
Sherston’s SHRIMPers prepare for action.
BART have plans for an exciting community project on the Luckington Brook in the village of Sherston, Wiltshire. The SHRIMP project (SHerston River IMProvement project) will work with local volunteers…
The Wellow Brook Project
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) has formally completed its partnership project on a stretch of the Wellow Brook at Welton, Midsomer Norton. The project was carried out in partnership with the Wild…
Bristol Frome Diffuse Pollution Project
Bristol Avon Rivers Trust (BART) are delighted to have been asked to lead this project on behalf of the Bristol Avon Catchment Group, with funding provided through the DEFRA Catchment…
March & April newsletter
It’s been a busy couple of months! Click here to find out what we’ve been up to: BART March & April newsletter
BART Jan-Feb Newsletter
Our newsletter for January/February 2015 is now out! Follow this link to find out more about the work we’ve been doing over the past couple of months -> BART Jan-Feb Newsletter…
WELLOW BROOK VOLUNTEERS – DATE CHANGES
Please note the changes made in the following update. Wellow Restoration project – volunteers Update 7
Wellow Brook Project – Volunteer Update
We have had a great initial response to our request for volunteers. The latest details re dates and meeting points is shown in the attached link. If you haven’t contacted…
Wellow Brook Project – Volunteers Needed
We are approaching the implementation stages of the Wellow project and there are opportunities for volunteer involvement. If you cannot make these dates but want to be involved please still…
Upper Avon Initiative
We are distributing the attached leaflet at the Wild Sherston Festival this weekend and in other local events on the Sherston and Tetbury Avon downstream as far as Sutton Benger.…
The link below details a small but important project which BART completed with several partners very recently. The cash cost was £84.00 but lots of man hours went into planning…
By Brook Progress
Now we have agreement to proceed it is all hands to the pump to make the most of the Summer and progress the project as fast as possible. We have…
Good News For By Brook!
BART has just received confirmation that it has been awarded a Partnership contract to carry out improvements on the By Brook. You can see a draft of the information release…
PES project – Little Avon
Phase two of this project has been completed and the final stage which would include recommendations for next steps is due for completion in August. BART are excited at how…
Payments For Ecosystem Services Project
BART are working in partnership with the world renowned wetlands expert, Rob McInnes, researchers from Bath Spa University and a local environmental consultancy called Engain, on a project to implement…
Another Avon Roach Project
Thanks to the Severn Rivers Trust BART were lucky enough to acquire eight roach spawning boards recently in readiness for this seasons spawning. We hope that we can encourage the…
Beginnings of an Eel Project..
BART have spent the last few weekends in January and February walking sections of the Bristol Frome and River Chew. Lots of rain and some sleet but no sign of…
Flow Deflectors Project
Much of the Bristol Avon has many weirs with a short stretch of oxygenated water below them followed by the river quickly losing its energy. This project was designed to…
Bankside “buffer zone” Project
The two views in these photos show a stretch of river which had been badly poached by cattle leading to the banks being denuded of all vegetation. The result is…
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