Communities in the North-East are being given the opportunity to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by helping nature to flourish with a share of £5m of funding from the National Lottery.

The Trust is to create several jobs after being awarded more than £400,000 of Government funding to deliver a “landmark” conservation programme.

Help for water voles in the North East is within touching distance with a new region-wide strategy to halt the decline and aid recovery.

November 19th, 2019 marked 25 years since the first National Lottery draw. Overall, The National Lottery is The Wildlife Trusts’ biggest grant funder and over the past quarter of a century, more…