WEST Cumbria Rivers Trust have announced that their Green Recovery Challenge Fund has finished this week.
The group have been working on a project around the River Derwent to improve the areas woodland and natural spaces.
They have been working alongside a number of groups to ensure that this work has been completed.
A spokesperson from West Cumbria Rivers Trust said: "Our Green Recovery Challenge Fund finishes today.
"Through the ‘Restoring the Derwent’ project, we’ve delivered 8.49ha native woodland, 4371m restored hedgerows, 388 in-river woody debris/leaky dams, 355 in-field trees and 31,500m² of wetlands in the cocker and glenderamackin catchments.
"Thanks so much to funders Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and National Lottery Heritage Fund, the 27 landowners, all the volunteers who gave us 251 days of their time across 43 events, including five very hard working youth groups and the 12 local contractors who helped deliver these great projects over the last year.
"We’ve also gained an amazing member of the WCRT project team. Sarah joined us as a Green Recovery Challenge Fund trainee a year ago, and has been invaluable ever since.
"We couldn’t have delivered the project without her."
In addition to the River Derwent project, the Trust has also been busy recently working on sites including Wiza Beck in Wigton.
With the landowner’s agreement, WCRT arranged for 200 metres of fencing to keep stock away from the Wiza’s banks, reducing erosion from cattle to the river and disturbance to farm animals.
Next, willow stakes and brash bundles were cut by volunteers organised by WCRT and Wildlife for Wigton and installed along the most badly eroded sections, which will grow and protect the banks for years to come, providing natural flood management.
The final stage took place on Saturday, March 19 when a group of 27 volunteers from both Wildlife for Wigton and 3rd Wigton Sea Scouts, Cubs and Beavers planted over 400 trees alongside the beck.
Jodie Mills, operations director said: “Our volunteers make a huge difference, helping us conserve the fantastic natural environment we’re surrounded by in this area."
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