We are very grateful to players of the National Lottery and the People’s Postcode Lottery; lottery grants have funded several of Butterfly Conservation’s biggest landscape scale conservation projects.
Current and completed projects funded through lottery grants since 2015 include:
Chequered Skipper Taking Flight | East Midlands | 2021 - 2023 |
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Big City Butterflies (delivery phase) | South East England | 2021 - 2025 |
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Green Recovery for Morecambe Bay's Woodlands | North West England | 2020 - 2022 |
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Social Butterflies | South West England | 2020 - 2021 |
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Kent's Magnificent Moths (delivery phase) | South East England | 2019 - 2022 |
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Saving the Wood White butterfly in the South East | South East England | 2019 - 2022 |
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Saving the Northern Brown Argus in the Scottish Borders | Scotland | 2019 - 2020 |
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Helping Hands for Butterflies | Scotland | 2019 - 2022 |
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Conserving the Duke of Burgundy and the Marsh Fritillary in Wiltshire |
South West England |
2019 - 2020 |
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Yorkshire |
2019 - 2022 |
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Small Blue butterfly wildflower bank creation at St Julian’s Meadow, Greenwood Park, Chiswell Green |
East England |
2019 - 2020 |
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Big City Butterflies: Discovering London's Butterflies and Moths (development phase) |
South East England |
2018 - 2019 |
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Scotland |
2018 - 2020 |
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Duke of Burgundy Stepping Stones |
North West England |
2018 |
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Returning the Chalk Hill Blue to Warwickshire |
West Midlands |
2018 - 2019 |
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South East England |
2018 - 2019 |
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Woodland Wings: Conserving the rare butterflies and moths of the East Midlands |
East Midlands |
2017 - 2020 |
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South West England |
2017 - 2018 |
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The Blues and Browns of Polden Hills: Saving two of the UK’s most threatened butterflies |
South West England |
2017 - 2020 |
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South West England |
2017 - 2019 |
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Making A Stand For The Wood White. Conserving the West Midlands’ most threatened butterfly |
West Midlands |
2016 - 2018 |
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The Butterfly Files: Creating opportunities for a greater understanding of Northern Ireland’s butterflies and moths |
Northern Ireland |
2016 - 2018 |
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The Urban Butterfly Net: building sustainable volunteer networks to conserve the butterflies of Central Scotland |
Scotland |
2015 - 2018 |
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Fritillaries for the Future, Sussex |
South East England |
2015 - 2018 |