24 July 2025
World River Prize Nominees!
We are delighted to announce that the Cumbria River Restoration Programme, which the National Trust helps deliver through our Riverlands project, has been announced as a finalist in the 2025 Thiess International River Prize, the most prestigious global award for river restoration.
Being nominated for such an award is a wonderful recognition of the hard work, dedication and skill of all partners involved. Led by the Environment Agency the programme is true partnership in action, with local communities, farmers and conservation teams all playing their part to deliver over 100 projects across Cumbria in the last 15 years.
Our restoration projects, from re-wiggling Goldrill Beck in Ullswater to creating pond water storage on the Dunthwaite Estate, are just some of many projects in the partnership that are bringing benefits for nature, water and people in this special landscape.
It is an honour to have our hard work, and the fantastic benefits it delivers, recognised by the International River Foundation.