Overview
Communities
Nature
Heritage
Events and Activities
Volunteer
Community
Explore
Local Highlights
Partnership Projects
Connecting Communities
Culture and heritage
Transforming the Trent Valley is the partnership originally established to deliver a landscape scheme of the same name and evolved from a smaller partnership known as the Central Rivers Initiative.
Originally focussing on an area 200km² in the east of Staffordshire and the south of Derbyshire, the partnership now encompasses the catchment of the River Trent in Staffordshire and Derbyshire from the headwaters in Biddulph to its middle reaches in Shardlow.
The partnership has the following 5 aims:
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is the leading nature conservation body in the county and a registered charity. It protects and enhances our wildlife and wild places and promotes involvement, enjoyment and understanding of the natural world. With the support of 19,000 members, it manages 30 sites covering over 4,000 acres including sites of international, European and national importance. As part of The Wildlife Trusts, the Trust is the local face of the largest organisation in the UK concerned with the conservation of all forms of wildlife.
www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk
As the largest dedicated funder of the UK’s heritage, The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future as set out in the strategic plan, Heritage 2033. Over the next ten years, the Heritage Fund aims to invest £3.6billion raised for good causes by National Lottery players to bring about benefits for people, places and the natural environment. The Heritage Fund helps protect, transform and share the things from the past that people care about, from popular museums and historic places, our natural environment and fragile species, to the languages and cultural traditions that celebrate who we are. The Heritage Fund is passionate about heritage and committed to driving innovation and collaboration to make a positive difference to people’s lives today, while leaving a lasting legacy for future generations to enjoy.
www.heritagefund.org.uk
The Central Rivers Initiative was established as a partnership in November 1997. The partnership aimed to secure a multifunctional end use for sand and gravel extraction sites in the sub region, and to integrate the sites into landscape scale management of the river valleys.
In November 2016, the Central Rivers Initiative partnership successfully secured a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund to develop an ambitious scheme focussing on the River Trent and its tributaries the Tame and the Dove.
The final application was given the green light in December 2018 and Transforming the Trent Valley was successfully delivered between 2019 and 2024. The Central Rivers Initiative has since been superseded by the Transforming the Trent Valley Partnership.
