Avon Wildlife Trust secures £5 million for new climate resilient nature reserve - Avon Wildlife Trust

With a generous grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Avon Wildlife Trust will create climate resilient wetlands and a community nature reserve.

This significant initiative will demonstrate nature’s recovery at scale, transforming a nature depleted site into a haven where wildlife and people will thrive.

Ebdon Farm is a 44-hectare former dairy farm on the North Somerset Levels and Moors and is at significant risk from climate change impacts. Transforming this land is the largest initiative ever undertaken by Avon Wildlife Trust and follows more than 12 months of community engagement, species monitoring, and surveying to learn from the land and the local community.

The development phase, also supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, enabled the Trust to co-create a masterplan to reimagine the farm for the future, creating a template for climate-adapted farming which could be replicated across the North Somerset Levels and Moors. Phase one of this masterplan can now become a reality.