ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST — grant history
Latest income
£244k
Grants listed (FY2025)
7
Listed grants total
£23k
Accounts grants total
—
extracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: ECT Small Grants Scheme is open to applications for activities at LTEs on the ECT register. Student Grant applications require a personal reference provided by the project supervisor, to be submitted along with the grant application form.
- What they don’t fund: ECT no longer supports conference travel/accommodation through this scheme.
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What changed: FY2024 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Dr Joe Bailey (Anglia Ruskin University) | — | £5k |
| new | Prof Mariecia Fraser (IBERS, Aberystwyth University) | — | £5k |
| new | Brenden Beckett (University of Manchester) | — | £3k |
| new | Dr Andrew Hacket-Pain (University of Liverpool) | — | £3k |
| new | Dr Michael Peacock (University of Liverpool) | — | £3k |
| new | Dr Nina Overtoom (University of York) | — | £2k |
| new | Alexander Gray (Edge Hill University) | — | £2k |
| not listed | Imperial College | £4k | — |
| not listed | University of York | £3k | — |
| not listed | RBG Kew | £3k | — |
| not listed | University of Birmingham | £3k | — |
| not listed | Scotland’s Rural College | £2k | — |
| not listed | James Hutton Institute | £2k | — |
| not listed | Loughborough University | £750 | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Joe Bailey (Anglia Ruskin University) | FY2025 | £5k | for refencing work at the Wicken Fen Vision LTE grazing exclusion plots in Cambridgeshire. |
| Prof Mariecia Fraser (IBERS, Aberystwyth University) | FY2025 | £5k | towards maintaining the infrastructure of the Brignant LTE, including repairs or replacement of fencing and gates to the treatment plots. |
| Brenden Beckett (University of Manchester) | FY2025 | £3k | towards consumables and travel for his on-going PhD research at the BIFoR-FACE LTE CO₂ elevation experiment in Staffordshire [co-funded by Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust]. |
| Dr Andrew Hacket-Pain (University of Liverpool) | FY2025 | £3k | towards the costs of consumables, travel & subsistence for this year’s survey of the monitoring transects at the Lady Park Wood LTE in the Wye Valley, Gloucestershire [co-funded by Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust] |
| Dr Michael Peacock (University of Liverpool) | FY2025 | £3k | towards the purchase and installation of water table loggers at Migneint blanket bog LTE. |
| Dr Nina Overtoom (University of York) | FY2025 | £2k | towards travel and subsistence for field work at the Cors Fochno LTE field site and consumables including a data logger replacement to monitor environmental conditions and greenhouse gas fluxes in the experimental plots. |
| Alexander Gray (Edge Hill University) | FY2025 | £2k | towards consumables, travel and subsistence costs for his research project at the Ainsdale Dune Slacks LTE grazing experiment in West Lancashire [co-funded by Ramble Worldwide Outdoor Trust]. |
| Imperial College | FY2024 | £4k | refurbishment of plot fencing at the Nash’s Field experiment (second instalment) |
| University of York | FY2024 | £3k | costs of equipment maintenance/replacement at the Cors Fochno climate change LTE in mid-Wales |
| RBG Kew | FY2024 | £3k | maintenance work at the re-purposed Thursley Common experiment (APRI project) in Surrey |
| University of Birmingham | FY2024 | £3k | gas flux analyser repairs at the BIFoR-FACE LTE in Staffordshire |
| University of York | FY2024 | £3k | consumables related to the comparative analysis of peat cores from the Moor House Hard Hill LTE |
| Scotland’s Rural College | FY2024 | £2k | maintenance of the Tulloch Agroecology LTE |
| James Hutton Institute | FY2024 | £2k | plot fencing maintenance costs at the Glen Finglas LTE in Scotland |
| Loughborough University | FY2024 | £750 | travel and consumables to carry out PhD-related research at the Ainsdale Dune Slacks LTE in west Lancashire |
| Catalina Estrada at Imperial College | FY2023 | £5k | towards repairs to the fencing surrounding the grazing exclosures at the Nash’s Field long-term grassland grazing and fertilisation experiment in Berkshire |
| Andreas Heinemeyer at the University of York | FY2023 | £4k | towards the costs of replacement water table depth loggers and battery pack renewal at the Peatland-ES-UK long-term heather moorland management experiment in Yorkshire and Lancashire |
| Konstans Wells at Swansea University | FY2023 | £3k | for consumables costs associated with comparing the gut microbiome-parasite health status of grazing animals on different grasslands at the Rowden Plots land drainage experiment in Devon |
| Roberto Salguero-Gómez at the University of Oxford | FY2023 | £3k | towards the costs of consumables for tracking plant community resilience using phenocams and artificial intelligence (AI) at the RainDrop long-term drought experiment at Wytham Woods |
| Scott Hayward at the University of Birmingham | FY2023 | £3k | towards the costs of species-level identification of the insect sample archive taken from the BIFoR-FACE climate change experiment in Staffordshire |
| Sylvia Toet at the University of York | FY2023 | £2k | towards the costs of sustaining annual vegetation measurements at the Cors Fochno climate change experiment in mid-Wales |
| Sophie Mills at the University of Birmingham | FY2023 | £750 | to support her work on pollen analysis using novel Artificial Intelligence at the BIFoR-FACE long-term CO₂ elevation experiment |
| Newcastle University | FY2022 | £3k | long-term data curation and ensuring that data generation is efficient and seamless in the future at Palace Leas LTE |
| University of Cambridge | FY2022 | £3k | validation study of the Natural England Biodiversity Metric using data from LTEs |
| Edge Hill University | FY2022 | £3k | installation of minirhizotrons and the purchase of camera equipment to record root development at Ainsdale Dune Slacks LTE |
| University of Birmingham | FY2022 | £3k | Phenocams to capture near-continuous quantitative measurements of tree canopy/phenological responses to environmental changes at the BIFoR-FACE LTE |
| University of York | FY2022 | £1k | repair and calibration of CO2 emission monitoring equipment for the Peatland-ES-UK LTE |
| University of Plymouth | FY2022 | £1k | instruments to measure leaf canopy temperature and for a PhD student to work at the BIFoR-FACE LTE |
| Open University | FY2021 | £5k | Professor David Gowing - special data curation grant for the Somerford Mead LTE |
| Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew | FY2021 | £3k | Dr Jill Kowal - renewal of Thursley Common LTE / consortium for research on wildfire effects |
| Queen’s University Belfast | FY2021 | £3k | Dr Caroline Meharg - costs of surveying the soil rhizosphere microbes at the Hillsborough LTE |
| University of Warwick | FY2021 | £2k | Katy Faulkner - consumables and travel for PhD project investigating microbial carbon cycling |
| University of Birmingham | FY2021 | £2k | Dr Kris Hart - processing tree leaf samples from the BIFoR-FACE experiment |
| University of Birmingham, Institute of Forest Research | FY2021 | £2k | Dr Josep Barba - field consumables for work at the BIFoR-FACE experiment |
| AFBI Hillsborough | FY2021 | £1k | Dr Jonathan Holland - costs of co-hosting the 50th anniversary event for the Hillsborough long-term nutrient addition experiment |