Water company launches £11m grant fund to help rejuvenate river catchments |
The Catchment Regeneration Fund, part of the company's improvement programme to meet its environmental obligations, will support partnership projects using "nature-based solutions" to tackle challenges including pollution and low river flows.
These could include floodplain reconnection, river restoration, run-off attenuation, soil and land use improvements and wetland creation.
Grants will be available to landowners and farmers, charities, environmental groups, local councils, academic institutions and community organisations — anyone ready to co-fund and deliver projects that "bring environmental benefits to life".
The fund focuses on 11 target catchments across Norfolk, parts of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, including North West Norfolk........