# Cotswolds Community Delivery - Biodiversity and Access\. ERDF Wild Towns Project

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST.

## Key facts

- Buyer: GLOUCESTERSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST
- Supplier: [Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West](/suppliers/farming-and-wildlife-advisory-group-south-west/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £22,528
- Tender value: £23,650
- Award date: 19 July 2019
- Published: 2 August 2019
- Contract start: 29 July 2019
- Contract end: 20 December 2020
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 5b3b9266-684d-48ed-abb9-26b231e00c0c-305541
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d2167fe1-41b9-4c2a-9175-5a58f0041e5c

## Description

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 Cotswold Community Delivery contract will support the principal biodiversity contract, and will deliver several interventions in Fairford, Cirencester and Tetbury with particular emphasis on involving local communities wherever practically possible\. Please see the attached Invitation to Tender and send expressions of interest and then completed forms via email to will\.masefield@gloucestershirewildlifetrust\.co\.uk\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/5b3b9266-684d-48ed-abb9-26b231e00c0c-305541)