2025 UK River Prize Gold Standard Award – Monitoring, Evidence & Influence
📍 Eddleston, near Peebles (EH45 8EQ)
🗓️ Tuesday 27 January 2026
🕥 10:30 arrival for 11:00 start – finishes around 15:30
(Exact meeting and parking details to follow)
BOOK YOUR PLACE – we can pre-book slots or book yourself
Join the Tweed Forum team for a hands-on visit to the award-winning Eddleston Water Project, one of the UK’s most respected examples of river and catchment restoration. This long-running initiative shows how practical, low-cost measures on working farmland can reduce flooding, improve soils, and restore wildlife — all without locking landowners into rigid schemes or red tape.
On the day, we’ll visit farms where new meanders, flood storage ponds, and runoff attenuation features have been created in partnership with local landholders. You’ll also see extensive riparian tree planting and hear first-hand how these changes were made to fit alongside productive farming. The emphasis will be on evidence, local experience, and what has really worked on the ground — not theory or policy.
Listen to what Kenny Watson has to say.
Whether you’re interested in managing water on your own land, improving biodiversity, or simply seeing how others are adapting, this is a day not to be missed.