Members of DorsetCAN have been instrumental in setting up and running a number of local river groups across Dorset. DorsetCAN aims to act as a ‘clearinghouse’ to share information, knowledge and resources between these river groups.

If you want to:

• Join a local river group (or find out how to start one)
• Learn more about Citizen Science river monitoring
• Get ideas on how to create a River Charter

Or have other questions about rivers and beaches, please contact one of the coordinators.

River Groups

All across Dorset there are community-led river projects (some are just outside the county but watersheds are administratively promiscuous) Follow the links for more info and to JOIN! (If yours isn’t listed – please send us details):

• River Asker Community Project

• Bridport Rivers Catchment Group

• Cerne Valley Project

• River Char Community Project

• River Char Action Group

• Connecting the Culm

• Dorset Catchment Partnerships

• DWT’s Dorset Wild Rivers scheme

• Friends of the River Frome

• River Kit monitoring group (Chardstock ECO Group)

• River Lim Action Group

• Health of the River Piddle 

• Poole Harbour catchment initiative

• River Stour Catchment Initiative

• River Tarrant Rehabilitation Project

• Winniford River Action Group

• Clean Rivers of West Dorset (CROWD)

• Friends of the River Axe

Events:

Rivers and Beaches—How to take action Locally. Join us on Tuesday, May 13th, at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Find out more.

Online Meetings are held annually.

In January 2024 a Dorset CAN Rivers event brought together three leading speakers on the subject, plus representatives from a dozen local rivers. Please ask if you’d like to see the speakers’ presentations and watch the recording of the Zoom event.

Speakers were: Simon Browning, The Rivers Trust; Dominic Acland, Environmental Consultancy; Ian Rees, West Dorset Rivers & Coastal Streams Catchment

Please contact us for the next meeting’s Zoom link and agenda email dorsetcan@gmail.com

Upcoming Events are posted on our Events Page