The Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust is an independent Charitable Trust set up in 2010 to promote the conservation, protection, and improvement of the environment across a 1600 hectare area of the Upper Mersey Estuary running all the way from Halton’s Silver Jubilee Bridge, to the new Mersey Gateway Bridge and up-river as far as Warrington.

The Trust aims to:

· be the Upper Mersey Estuary’s most active and influential wildlife champion

· ensure the Mersey Gateway Project is a visionary example of environmental management for future major construction projects

· improve the natural environment around the bridge and through the Upper Mersey Estuary on both land and water

· increase the bird and wildlife population of the Upper Mersey Estuary over the next 30 years and

· secure additional funding for environmental initiatives in the area over the next 30 years

The Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust team is actively collecting data as well as supporting a variety of research through their Living Laboratory. The Mersey Gateway Environmental Trust aims to be transparent and share data and offer the estuary as an open space to learn and research.

Our website: http://www.mget.org.uk/