Biodiversity contract Invitation to Tender - ERDF Wild Towns Project

ERDF Wild Towns Project

Thanks to a generous contribution from the European Regional Development Fund and a portfolio of other funders, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust are leading the ERDF Wild Towns Project in Gloucestershire, along with our partners Severn Trent Water, Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West and Severn Rivers Trust.

Wild Towns will create, connect and enhance green spaces for wildlife in 7 towns across Gloucestershire. This project focuses on improving biodiversity in market towns. In each of these highly contested urban environments, the project will deliver improved ecological networks, enhanced green infrastructure, and natural solutions to water management. These outcomes will be delivered through: the creation of biodiverse grasslands; management of woodlands; removal of in river barriers to fish; creating refuges for key species; and the creation of pond networks.

The project will achieve broad coverage across Gloucestershire. In the Stroud District interventions will take place along the Nailsworth to Stonehouse corridor. In the Forest of Dean, the project will focus around Cinderford and in the Cotswolds, projects will take place in Cirencester, Fairford, Tetbury and Moreton-in-Marsh.

This biodiversity contract represents the heart of this project - delivering the main interventions against which the project will be measured. 35 interventions across the 7 towns are to deliver scrub and woodland management, grassland management and wildflower meadow creation, bat and bird box schemes and more.

Please see the attached Invitation to Tender and send expressions of interest and then completed forms via email to will.masefield@gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk.

Additional information: NB Item 28 - Gloucestershire County Council have now taken on the eradication of the Japanese Knotweed in Nailsworth/Stroud, so please do not quote for this item. You can simply write N/A against Item 28.