Key dates
2024 11 ‘satellite’ sites now being managed/supported by LUCT in the Lower Ure valley including a number of County wildlife sites
August 2023 - December 2025 LUCT awarded £250,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the project ‘Ure Connected - Engaging People with Nature in the Lower Ure Valley’.
2023 Almost 7,000 hours of volunteering activity were recorded.
2023 20+ visits from other organisations were hosted to see LUCT’s work on the ground and learn from our experience, particularly related to plant propagation
July 2022 – July 2024 LUCT’s Yorkshire Water Biodiversity Fund project stage 2 builds on the success of the first Yorkshire Water funded scheme with a new focus on Priority Species and ‘building outwards’ to link-up Flasks Fen with other sites in the lower Ure and Swale catchments.
December 2020 – May 2022 LUCT’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund project is delivered, focusing on: expanding LUCT’s volunteering, training and employment offer, recruitment of our first full-time project officer and two student summer placements, community engagement, recruitment of more regular conservation volunteers, more volunteer training opportunities and a 4-day student residential focused on habitat restoration.
July 2020 - July 2022 LUCT’s Yorkshire Water Biodiversity Fund project is launched ‘Expanding priority wetland habitats in the Lower Ure valley’. Focused on creating more priority wetland habits, particularly species-rich reedbed and fen, leading to direct benefits for priority habitats and species.
2018 - 2020 LUCT’s ‘Well Wetlands’ Heritage Lottery Funded project is launched, recruiting a part time project officer, strengthening the volunteer team. Community engagement strengthened with a bioblitz event, more information materials and an improved website
2018 LUCT’s commercial scale plant nursery is constructed, leading to 20,000+ local provenance plants being propagated annually and more than 80 species now in cultivation
2017 LUCT secures a People’s Postcode Lottery grant received to ‘wet beds’ and protective fencing erected at Flask Lake, Nosterfield
2010 First-ever recorded ‘booming’ bittern for North Yorkshire located in the Nosterfield reedbed (designed, planted and established by LUCT)
2006 Nosterfield LNR features as a case study in the RSPB’s Nature After Minerals- how mineral site restoration can benefit people and wildlife booklet https://afterminerals.com/
2000 Nosterfield Nature Reserve wins the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO) Best Small Wetland in the national Birds in Business Awards 2000
1999 LUCT becomes a Registered Charity
1997 LUCT is formally established and registered as a 'Company Limited by Guarantee'