Clyde River Foundation

Big day for us.

Our Laura returning to her Primary School as a working scientist! Closing the loop after completing Clyde in the Classroom more than a decade ago.

Delivering our first contribution to the Glasgow’s Lost Rivers project with P6 from Crookfur Primary School.

We’ve known the Capelrig Burn has a good head of brown trout for some time and it was great to show them to our at first hand.

Our urban burns are always worth a look!

World Environment Day with St Catherine’s Primary School, Paisley.

Lots of prospective scientists and yesterday.

Clyde in the Classroom and Beyond…

We spent the day putting the final touches to our poster for Saturday’s Glasgow Natural History Society conference.

Kirsty and Toby doing all of the heavy lifting today.

Over the last 26 years, our education programme has been delivered by 30 different scientists and has engaged with 57,558 young people from 555 different schools (some of which have now closed).

We have now worked with 84% of the 557 Primary Schools across the eight local authority areas of the River Clyde catchment.

We are very grateful to all of our sponsors who have helped us get this far! We now have around 50 Primary Schools still to reach in our catchment.

Let us know if you are interested in partnering with us to ‘complete the set’!

Contact us:

[email protected]

Clyde in the Classroom 2027 booking is now open!

We wrote to all Clyde catchment Primary School Head Teachers last week with a project summary and joining form.

As of this morning, we’ve filled 25% of available places so, if you want your class to be part of the 27th consecutive year of the project, don’t delay!

Against all the odds (and just look at them!) we extended the known range of Clyde salmon today.

We wonder where some of these pollutants originate?

Old Patrick Water above and below the M8.

Have we just given up on these urban burns? Dreadful, really.

Turns out it’s Wild Salmon Day!

While the return of Atlantic salmon to the Clyde is a real ‘good news’ story, we reckon they have recolonised only 40% of their pre-extinction range across the river catchment.

There’s still a lot to do however, principally barrier removal, water quality improvement and instream and bankside habitat enhancements.

It’s a big shopping list but today, as for most of the last 24 summers, we’re out trying to make things better.

Salmon need free access from the sea and cold, clean water to complete their freshwater life-cycle.

Still work to do on this Clyde tributary…

It’s been a busy week.

Some random images before we head into the bank holiday.

Wishing all teachers and support staff a peaceful weekend!