ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST — grant history
Latest income
£157k
Grants listed (FY2024)
8
Listed grants total
£21k
Accounts grants total
£21k
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2024 accounts
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial College | FY2024 | £4k | refurbishment of plot fencing at the Nash’s Field experiment (second instalment) |
| RBG Kew | FY2024 | £3k | maintenance work at the re-purposed Thursley Common experiment (APRI project) in Surrey |
| University of York | FY2024 | £3k | consumables related to the comparative analysis of peat cores from the Moor House Hard Hill LTE |
| University of York | FY2024 | £3k | costs of equipment maintenance/replacement at the Cors Fochno climate change LTE in mid-Wales |
| University of Birmingham | FY2024 | £3k | gas flux analyser repairs at the BIFoR-FACE LTE in Staffordshire |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Queen’s University Belfast | FY2021 | £3k | Dr Caroline Meharg - costs of surveying the soil rhizosphere microbes at the Hillsborough LTE |
| Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew | FY2021 | £3k | Dr Jill Kowal - renewal of Thursley Common LTE / consortium for research on wildfire effects |
| 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 |