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
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'