Biodiversity
![EMBLEM project](/media/2527/emblem-sq.jpg)
Cambridge Past, Present and Future was awarded £2,000 for its project looking at 'Ecological Monitoring for Biodiversity and Long-term Environmental Management' or EMBLEM for short...
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![Cherry Hinton Brook](/media/2528/cherry-hinton-brook.jpg)
The Friends of Cherry Hinton Brook received a grant of £1,700 for its project looking at habitat restoration along Cherry Hinton Brook...
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![Icknield School nature hotel](/media/2529/icknield-school-sq.jpg)
Icknield Primary School received a grant for £2,000 in the 2016-17 PEBBLE grant period. The grant helped the school turn a neglected and overgrown area of the school grounds into a nature hotel providing habitat for wildlife and an educational resource...
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![River wardens](/media/2530/cambridge-river-wardens-sq.jpg)
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire were awarded £7,950 towards their pilot project for Cambridgeshire River Wardens...
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2017-18
![Cam Valley Forum](/media/2531/cam-valley-forum-sq.jpg)
Cam Valley Forum applied to the 2017-18 PEBBLE grant for its project on eradicating floating Pennywort on the Upper Cam...
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2018-19
![Photo of Bourn Brook surveying](/media/2686/bourn-free-surveying-sq.jpg)
The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire was awarded a grant for the Bourn Free project focusing on ecological surveying of the Bourn Brook.
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Mill River Reserve
Mill River Reserve was awarded a grant for its river restoration project on the Mill River, a chalk stream and a tributary of the River Cam.
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Cambourne Village College community sensory garden
Cambourne Village College was awarded a PEBBLE fund grant of £2,000 for its community sensory garden.
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2019-20
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Cambridge Hedgehogs Churchyard Project
This project was awarded a grant to help hedgehogs by enhancing the existing biodiversity at the churchyards of St Andrew’s in Cherry Hinton and St Andrew’s in Chesterton.
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![Photo of orchid at Fulbourn](/media/3325/fulbourn-fen-common-spotted-orchid-sq.png?width=250&height=250)
Fulbourn Fen to flourish
Wildlife Trust BCN received a PEBBLE fund to carry out extensive clearance of invasive species at Fulbourn Fen Nature Reserve to maximise biodiversity and conservation value.
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HI Green Gateway
The group was awarded a PEBBLE grant to plant trees alongside the A14 to restore the green gateway to Histon and Impington.
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Fen Drayton Lakes
RSPB was awarded a PEBBLE grant for work restoring habitats at Fen Drayton Lakes.
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2020-2021
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Rewilding Cofarm
CoFarm Cambridge received a PEBBLE grant of £5,500 to help “wild” the CoFarm Site.
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Chalk Stream Project
The Wildlife Trust Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire and The Wild Trout Trust were awarded funding in 2020 to carry out improvements to the River Mel and Vicar's Brook
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Chalk it up for wildlife
Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants was awarded a PEBBLE grant to improve the chalk grassland habitat at Cherry Hinton Chalk Pit nature reserve.
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Barton barn owl boxes
Countryside Regeneration Trust was awarded a PEBBLE fund grant to replace six barn owl boxes and monitor the outcomes for 18 months.
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2021-2022
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St Matthew’s Street Estate Biodiversity Project
On the Verge Cambridge was awarded a £560 PEBBLE grant for the St Matthew’s Street Estate Biodiversity Project, to create a new wildflower meadow.
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Challis Green pond refurbishment
The Green Charity was awarded a £1,990 PEBBLE grant towards their Challis Green Pond Refurbishment project.
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Milton Country Park common tern breeding platform
Cambridge Sport Lakes Trust was awarded a £4,000 PEBBLE grant to introduce a common tern platform to Dickerson’s Lake.
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PEBBLE grants
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