Tyne Estuary Partnership
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Groundwork NE & Cumbria’s Revitalising Our Estuaries project has been awarded a grant from the Government’s £40 million second round of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, a multi-million pound boost for green jobs and nature recovery.
Partnership Aims:
- Sustain the Tyne Estuary Partnership
- Deliver Environmental Enhancements Through Nature Based Solutions
- Wider Benefits For Communities, Businesses and Visitors
This will include monitoring, impact measurement and evaluation to gain understanding of the financial and environmental benefits of a partnership approach.
Revitalising our Estuaries responds to North East coastal and estuaries crisis by delivering a blue/green recovery. Our coastal environments and communities have been significantly, disproportionally affected by health, economic, environmental crises of Covid, the recession and climate change. Our estuaries and coastal communities also suffer from the highest deprivation nationally and have been largely overlooked. They are in serious need of environmental/economic support to restore habitats, protect priority species and create more green jobs putting young people at the front of our Green Recovery.
Revitalising our Estuaries will support nature restoration at North East estuaries/coastal towns including:
- Wansbeck: Ashington/Choppington area
- Blyth: Blyth Harbour
- Tyne: Newcastle Quayside/Gateshead/South Tyneside areas
- Wear: Sunderland
- Tees: Hartlepool/Stockton/Middlesbrough/Redcar & Cleveland
- Esk: Whitby
Ninety nature projects across England have been awarded grants from £68,100 to £1,950,000 to create and retain over 1,000 green jobs, backed by the Government’s £80 million Green Recovery Challenge Fund.
Revitalising our estuaries focusses on employment and skills for young people in the region enabling them to deliver the nature restoration across the region.
It will restore Estuary Habitat in 6 areas. The projects will help mitigate the impact of climate change by providing carbon storage and scope for climate change adaptation.
Provide improved access to nature for 85,000 people to help them to better connect to nature.
Programme Development Manager, Hellen Hornby, said:
“This funding will enable Groundwork North East & Cumbria to really build on our current estuaries’ projects across the north east. Delivering nature-based solutions to provide important habitats for wildlife, increase biodiversity, store carbon whilst recruiting young people on potentially their first step on the employment ladder.”
The Green Recovery Challenge Fund is a key part of the Prime Minister’s 10 Point Plan to kick-start nature recovery and tackle climate change. Connecting people with nature is another priority theme: by increasing access to nature Groundwork NE & Cumbria’s Revitalising Our Estuaries project has been awarded a grant from the Government’s £40 million second round of the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, a multi-million pound boost for green jobs and nature recovery and greenspaces, projects will support both physical and mental wellbeing. The Government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund was developed by Defra and its Arm’s-Length Bodies. The fund is being delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England, the Environment Agency and Forestry Commission.
Our Pledge
So far organisations including Northumbrian Water, Port of Tyne, Environment Agency, Local Authorities, Natural England, Private developers, Wildlife and Rivers’ Trusts have joined the TEP simply by signing our pledge:
To demonstrate your support; you can sign up easily and quickly by:
We encourage all partners to join by signing the pledge. This does not commit your organisation to any financial/resource investments. However, it will demonstrate your willingness to be engaged with, and consulted on, the project and will vastly strengthen our funding applications. The outcome of which will enable the Partnership to deliver more interventions on the Tyne Estuary, therefore delivering effective environmental and economic benefits to all.
Have Your Say
We are asking all businesses, educators and communities for their opinions on the Tyne Estuary Partnership and the river environment as a whole. We would really appreciate 5 minutes of your time to feedback on our questionnaires, which will help inform our choices and support our funding bids.
There are three areas of interest, so please if you are able click on the links below (you may complete more than one for instance if you work in the area as well as live by the Tyne or its tributaries you may wish to complete the business / corporate as well as communities and the public survey.
Community Questionnaire – https://forms.gle/nxXyGT6TCwpjswcaA
Education Questionnaire – https://forms.gle/SQm9mwr5H5xQNFmeA
Business Questionnaire – https://forms.gle/5CkLNc8Ye6kUQVVu5
Contact Us
Contact tyne.estuary@groundwork.org.uk
Call Hellen Hornby, Partnership Manager on 075488223757
Tyne Catchment Partnership
The TEP contributes to the overall objectives of the Tyne Catchment Plan delivered by the Tyne Catchment Partnership. Visit tynecatchment.org for more information.
Partnership Support & Acknowledgement
The Tyne Estuary Partnership includes approximately 100 organisations who take an active interest in our work on the river. The following organisations contributed directly to facilitate the integration of nature based solutions on the Tyne and we would like to thank them for their continued support:
Groundwork NE & Cumbria
Environment Agency
South Tyneside Council
Northumbrian Water
Boat Folk
Newcastle University[HH2]
Port of Tyne
Hebburn and Sunderland Sea Cadets
Gateshead Council
In addition, these organisations have pledged their support with our mission:
Newcastle City Council
Northumberland County Council
Natural England
Historic England
Newcastle Gateshead Initiative
Capability North East
Biomatrix Water
Salix
Cbec
Swiftwater Solutions Ltd
Fairhurst
ZSL
Urban Splash
Smith’s Dock
Urban Flood Resilience
NEECCO
NIFCA
National Trust
North East Nature Partnership
Durham Wildlife Trust
Tyne Rivers Trust
SWECO
Ouseburn Farm
Chrysalis Services
Mott Macdonald
