Rivermouth Trust — Restoring a river, reach by reach
Visual concept preview of the Nonprofit Cause template's Home page: Opens on the river itself, states what the trust does, shows the measured impact, and invites people onto the bank. The sections below are a non-interactive composition of open-registry blocks.
We are a small river trust working the Corrow from the peat springs on Kilnmoss down to the tide. Trees on the south banks, gravel back in the shallows, fences where cattle used to stand in the beck — and a written count of every one.
Funders and partners
None of it is clever. It is tree guards, gravel, fence posts and a notebook, repeated in the same places for long enough to show up in the counts.
Native trees along the south banks, to hold the water temperature down in August.
Weirs notched or removed so sea trout and lamprey can reach the spawning gravels.
Fenced margins and buffer strips where stock used to walk straight into the beck.
Temperature, invertebrates and redds, logged monthly and published whole.
Every number here comes from our own monitoring on the Corrow — thirty-one points, read every month — and is spot-checked each spring by the Northwind Catchment Partnership, the landowners, clubs and commoners who share this river with us.
Where a figure moved the wrong way we have said so in that year’s review and explained what we changed.
- native trees planted on the banks
- 11,400
- of margin fenced against stock
- 6.2 km
- barriers notched or removed
- 4
- monitoring points read monthly
- 31
Rivermouth publish the counts that make them look bad as readily as the ones that don’t. On this catchment, that is the whole basis for trust.
The Corrow rises in peat on Kilnmoss, drops through Blackbank and the old leat at Sedge Mill, slows over the shallows at Ferney Ford, and meets salt water below Hollow Weir.
Six reaches, one river, and about four thousand people living alongside it. We know all six by name, and so do the two hundred people who work them with us.
I started because the bank behind our house was falling into the water. I stayed because you can stand at Ferney Ford now and watch clean gravel moving under the shallows, and I helped put it there.
It is the last barrier between the sea trout and eleven miles of gravel, and the winter window is short. Give to the work, or come and stand in the river with us on the first Saturday of the month.