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Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust wins £40,000 Movement for Good award

Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust has won a £40,000 Movement for Good award from Ecclesiastical Insurance Group.

After receiving a £10,000 award last year, the Trust is one of five charities chosen by a panel of judges to benefit from the larger grants.

The additional £40,000 will enable Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust, which carries out natural flood management work in South Yorkshire, to extend the charity’s work to other suitable sites in the Upper River Don catchment area to mitigate flood risk.

The original £10,000 Movement for Good award enabled the charity to undertake natural flood management works in Greno Woods, north of Sheffield. Leaky dams and attenuation ponds will now hold back rainwater and release it slowly into the stream system, alleviating the flood risk to Chapeltown in the valley below.

Marta Alfaro-Tirado, Nature Recovery Manager (South) at Sheffield Wildlife Trust, said:

“Thanks to this funding, Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust can expand the use of this cost-effective, natural, wildlife friendly approach to mitigating flood risk – which climate change looks set to increase in the years to come. Natural flood management is 100% natural, less intrusive than modern methods of flood mitigation and will potentially b