As 2025 draws to a close, it is a pleasure to reflect on a year of significant achievements in restoring and protecting Norfolk’s precious water environments, thanks to the combined efforts of our dedicated team, trustees, supporters and partners.
This year, we successfully completed large-scale river restoration projects on the rivers Stiffkey and Yare, and continued our important collaboration with land managers to adopt water-sensitive farming measures. These efforts are enhancing soil health, water quality, and resilience to floods and droughts across the county.
Our engagement work has continued to flourish, reaching diverse audiences through river and wetland-based walks, tours, and public talks. We also launched a new, user-friendly website that provides a much-improved space for sharing useful and engaging information.
To ensure our work is as effective as possible, we have strengthened our focus on data and spatial analysis. This sustained investment is now driving real change by allowing us to use high-quality information to make better decisions on interventions. This includes our partnership in the ‘North Norfolk: wilder, wetter, better for nature’ Landscape Recovery pilot project, which is supporting over 60 land managers in planning chalk river restoration and habitat creation.
We are deeply grateful to our volunteers and citizen scientists. Their vital contributions – from installing woody material in rivers and monitoring invertebrates to collecting weekly Wensum water samples – are essential to our success. We also continued protecting native species, successfully breeding and releasing 56 critically endangered white-clawed crayfish in partnership with the Zoological Society of East Anglia in November.
In 2026, we look forward to sharing our new strategy, focusing on catchment-scale projects and nature-based solutions through collaboration with land managers, communities and stakeholders.
Thank you for your ongoing support, and I wish you all the best for the new year.
Best wishes, Ed Bramham-Jones
CEO of Norfolk Rivers Trust
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Accessing Norfolk’s rivers and countryside
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