Ms Oonagh Duggan:

We are funded by memberships and donations. We have 15,000 members nationally. In addition, we conduct survey and monitoring work that we tender for competitively, as we do for our conservation projects on which we work with farmers, such as the curlew European Innovation Partnership. We apply for, and are in, a competitive process for those projects. Other than that, we do survey work for some of the local county councils. We apply for grants as well through State bodies.