Key dates

  • 1997 LUCT is formally established and registered as a 'Company Limited by Guarantee'

  • 1999 LUCT becomes a Registered Charity

  • Nosterfield NR wins the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO) Best Small Wetland in the national Birds in Business Awards 2000

  • 2006 Nosterfield LNR features as a case study in the RSPB’s Nature After Minerals – how mineral site restoration can benefit people and wildlife booklet

  • 2010 first-ever recorded ‘booming’ bittern for North Yorkshire located in the Nosterfield reedbed (designed, planted and established by LUCT)

  • 2018 ‘Well Wetlands’ Heritage Fund project is launched