Other grant funders
Across the UK, the RSPB is partnering with different organisations on vital nature restoration projects. Together, we’re breathing new life into nature reserves, making the experience even better for our visitors and creating jobs for the local community.
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Green Recovery Capacity Building Scheme
The Welsh Government partnered with National Lottery Heritage Fund on a support fund to help environmental NGOs in Wales build skills, develop ideas and improve their services. RSPB Cymru used this fund to:
- Study how woodland creation in Wales can help deliver benefits for the climate, nature, people and the economy.
- Discover opportunities for creating new woodland in key black grouse areas in Wales to benefit both nature and people.
- Carry out an independent review to help us understand how we can do our bit to tackle the climate, nature and economic crises through green job opportunities and workforce training.
- Evaluate the toolkit we use to make sure our projects are as inclusive as possible, with our Giving Nature a Home in Cardiff project as a pilot.
All Abilities Underpass at Loch Leven
Grant funding has allowed us to build an all-abilities underpass at RSPB Scotland Loch Leven nature reserve. The new underpass provides easy access between the reserve’s visitor centre (located south of the busy B9097 road), the reserve’s wheelchair-accessible wildlife viewing hides to the north, and the loch itself.
Before, visitors with limited mobility arriving to the reserve from other local visitor attractions around could only access the RSPB visitor centre by car. Now, a gently sloping path leads down from the visitor centre and through the underpass, ensuring people of all ages and abilities can easily use the facilities on both sides of the road.
The opening of the underpass is part of our ambition to create an all-inclusive wildlife experience and community hub at Loch Leven nature reserve. It comes alongside other improvements designed to make the reserve fully accessible to all, including touch button access doors.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to the funders who made this possible, particularly the Scottish Government, through the Sustrans Scotland Community Link programme; Perth and Kinross Council; NatureScot and The Gannochy Trust.
