Water Companies 5 Year Plan - Have Your Say
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This information is taken from the South East Rivers Trust Website. The full article and related information, including draft responses, can be found at the link below. Every five years, water companies in England are required to produce a Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP), which outlines how they intend to meet the expected water demands not just in the next five years but over the next 50 in their respective service areas. These plans take into account increasing population, climate change and growing risks of drought – while also protecting and enhancing the local environment. An important part of the WRMP plans is customer feedback on topics which concern them most. They are currently in draft form and out for public consultation.
https://www.southeastriverstrust.org/have-your-say-on-your-local-water-companys-five-year-plan/
LFCC Membership Now Overdue
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Please can we remind all of our past individual/club & organisation memberships are now overdue!!!. If you have already paid your 2023 membership, thank you, it is much appreciated.
Emails were sent out in late December to all of those we have as contacts responsible for membership payments. Please can you check your Spam/Junk mail folders. An email reminder will be sent within the next few days as a matter of course but if you have since payed then please disregard it.
The membership forms can be found here: https://www.lfcc.org.uk/downloads/20-lfcc-documents/2-other-lfcc-documents
Rivers & Wetlands Community Days 2023 - Project Funding
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Applications welcome from 6 February 2023
The Rivers & Wetlands Community Days programme is back for 2023, funding practical action by local people to make things better for their rivers and wetlands, now and into the future. Funded by Thames Water and run by a group including also the Angling Trust, Environment Agency, Institute of Fisheries Management and Wild Trout Trust, we’re looking to support projects big and small, from a couple of practical days with volunteers, through to larger-scale improvement work for rivers and wetlands.
We welcome applications from local, non-Governmental community groups working in the Thames Water catchment, including rivers and wildlife trusts, flood groups, countryside/catchment partnerships, angling clubs and conservation volunteers.
In the 2023 round of funding, we will seek to support both larger-scale projects, each up to £15K-£20K and small-scale projects up to £5K.
Applications will be open from 6th February 2023, closing on 13th March 2023.
Further details to follow, including the application criteria and application form.
You can see the full article here : https://www.wildtrout.org/news/rivers-wetlands-community-days-2023
This will coincide with the upcoming meeting of the LFCC on the 9th February as possible projects that might be proposed by clubs within the catchment.
Barbel-boosting bonanza for the lovely Loddon
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The Environment Agency has boosted the barbel population in the River Loddon this winter, as fisheries officers released more than 300 marked juvenile barbel into the Whistley Mill, on the Reading and District Angling Association section near Twyford.
Anglers are asked to please report any captures of marked barbel to help the Environment Agency gather important information on their survival, growth rates and how far the fish are moving up and downstream. Photos should be taken on both sides of the fish and a record of the length and weight if possible. This information should then be sent to “Report a Barbel” (lfcc.org.uk).
You can read the full article here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/barbel-boosting-bonanza-for-the-lovely-loddon
Meeting Agenda Feb23
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The agenda for the forth coming meeting of the LFCC on the 9th February 2023 can be found at the link below. Part of this meeting will be set aside to hearing about projects completed, currently underway or proposed by member clubs/individuals. If you or members of your club are planning to attend and have any project ideas for the future that you would like to share then please come along. The LFCC is here to help and some possible funding may be available.
https://www.lfcc.org.uk/downloads/20-lfcc-documents/9-agenda?download=241:lfcc-agenda-feb23
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