Our work

Insights and learning

Little Ouse Headwaters Project (LOHP)

We learn so that we, and the organisations we work with, can make intelligent and evidence-based decisions about how to be effective in a complex environment.

Our approach to learning is guided by two questions:

  1. What does the world look like for the issues, organisations and people we support?
  2. Where are we making most and least progress and why?

Below you'll find our insights reports - sharing what we've learned from our funding - along with research or evaluation reports we've commissioned, and key publications from work we fund.

Do also take a look in Latest for news and blogs about our work.

Latest

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    Blue Spaces: Working in partnership to improve local freshwaters in the UK

    The Blue Spaces programme set out to support people and organisations to take imaginative approaches to looking after their freshwater environments. Read our report, which shares the collective learning of everyone involved – from the funding process to the different approaches of the 19 funded projects, and the learning programme co-designed with them.

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    Acting on feedback: what we’ve done in 2025

    After hearing your feedback, we’re sharing the actions we’ve taken in 2025 to improve our processes, make our guidance clearer, and support a more inclusive approach.

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