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We offer unique team building days for companies and groups who want to get involved and make a difference for local wildlife and community spaces. Wild Work Days are tailor made days that incorporate practical conservation, team building, communication skills and wellbeing into one day. Whether your group want a hands on task supporting the habitat management of our reserves or an educational day learning how to survey particular species and produce useful data for conservation science, we have something to suit everyone as long as you’re willing to get stuck in and enjoy the great outdoors. A Wildlife Trust expert will be on hand throughout the day to answer questions and give your team a unique insight into our work and the difference you can make for local wildlife. Taking part in a Wild Work Day is a great way to promote team work, boost morale and make a positive contribution to the environment and the local community. You don't even need any previous experience! So why not escape the office and spend the day surrounded by stunning scenery, learning new skills, and most importantly having fun! Find out more https://www.wildlifebcn.org/get-involved/wild-events-and-experiences/corporate-volunteering

🌳Our woodlands are under threat - but you can make a difference and help save them. Climate change and tree disease are seriously affecting the health of some of our key woodland nature reserves. 🌱We have the expertise and skills to protect our woodlands, with your donation our conservation experts can put that knowledge into action. 🍂Over the coming weeks we will be exploring woodlands and the threats they face as part of our Wilder Future Fund. Watch this video to find out more and please help us reach our Year 1 goal of £500,000 by making a donation and sharing with friends and family. 👉Find out more and donate wildlifebcn.org/wilderfuturefund

Don’t miss the opportunity 2nd-9th December to have your donation to nature doubled! We are taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge – every £10 you give to help ancient woodlands between 2nd & 9th December will become £20. If you only give once to nature this festive season then make it then! Ancient Woodlands are precious habitats that support many wildflowers, butterflies, fungi, bats and birds. But they are under threat from climate change and tree disease – we have the skills to protect them but our work needs funding. Thanks to the generosity of Reed Foundation (our Big Give Champion) your donation will be doubled, but don’t wait, we only have a week.  Donate today - https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000689ttYAA

Our woodlands are under threat – but they are also full of hope. Short Wood and Southwick Wood is affected by climate change and tree disease – that's why our reserve staff and passionate volunteers like warden Rupert Paul are managing it for the future. Not just next year and the year after but 200 years into the future! You can support this work and make sure future generations can enjoy special places like this forever. Please share and donate to our Wilder Future Fund today https://www.wildlifebcn.org/wilderfuturefund

Exciting conservation works underway at Strawberry Hill 🍓🌿 In collaboration with the Newt Conservation Partnership, new ponds are being created to support great crested newts and a wide range of other wildlife, helping to protect and enhance this special habitat for the future. We’re excited to see how these ponds develop over time and the life they will support. Here is a glimpse at some of the works. In collaboration with the Newt Conservation Partnership and their partners Freshwater Habitats Trust, Amphibian Reptile Conservation and scheme providers NatureSpace Partnership.

🌼 The Wildlife Gardening Awards are BACK! 🌼 Did you know there are around 24 million gardens in the UK, and together they form a huge network of habitats for wildlife? Whether you’ve got a balcony, garden, allotment or community space, you can make a real difference by creating food, water and shelter for wildlife 🐝🦋🐦 🏆 Our Wildlife Gardening Awards celebrate the amazing things people are doing to help nature thrive, and now it’s your turn to get involved! ✨ Take part, get recognised, and inspire others 📸 Submit your space and show how you’re helping wildlife 🌱 Big or small, every action counts 👉 Find out more and apply: https://www.wildlifebcn.org/take-action/wildlife-gardening-awards #WildlifeGardening #TeamWilder #NatureRecovery #GardenForWildlife

Pasqueflowers are one of the most beautiful, and most threatened, wildflowers in our region. Our Wilder Future Fund is raising the money needed to bring special grassland species like this back from the brink. Graham Bellamy, a volunteer warden on our Bedfordshire chalk reserves, has spent many years protecting pasqueflowers. Here he is speaking at Knocking Hoe, a Natural England owned site which the Wildlife Trust helps to manage. We are also working with Plantlife to try to bring pasqueflowers back to nearby Pegsdon Hills where historically they were much more abundant. Their name derives from Paschal, meaning Easter or Passover as they emerge in April each year, almost exclusively on healthy chalk and limestone grasslands. They are steeped in folklore, once believed to grow where defeated Romans and Vikings lay, but they have suffered serious declines. Our teams work with partners to manage grassland sites with grazing animals and teams of volunteers, we monitor threatened species and advise landowners. But staff, equipment and resources are vital if we are to save the pasqueflower – please donate today and make a difference by visiting https://www.wildlifebcn.org/wilderfuturefund

We've all experienced the effects of climate change firsthand. Recent unprecedented heatwaves have left lawns, fields, community spaces and meadows parched and brown. More than 97% of England's species-rich grasslands have disappeared since the 1930s, largely due to agricultural intensification and development. We can't afford to lose what remains. Grasslands and meadows are home to an extraordinary variety of wildlife. Rare fungi such as waxcaps and pinkgills, pollinators including butterflies and bumblebees, and farmland birds like meadow pipits and skylarks all depend on these habitats to survive. We protect and care for a number of precious grassland reserves, where our dedicated staff and volunteers work year-round to restore habitats, support wildlife, and improve the wider countryside. But this work takes resources. From maintaining fencing and grazing livestock to using specialist equipment for habitat management, every aspect of protecting these landscapes comes at a cost. Please donate today to help us restore and protect England's precious grasslands for wildlife and future generations https://www.wildlifebcn.org/wilderfuturefund

🐛Often children arrive at the Environmental Education Centre at Paxton Pits unsure about their surroundings, scared to touch pond weed, wary of creepy crawlies, afraid to get their hands muddy. But time and again we see that change and they leave with smiles on their faces, and a new confidence to explore the wild. 💚Thousands of young people have visited the centre on school trips, holiday clubs or Wildlife Watch and Youth Ranger groups over the years. Many of those have become volunteers here themselves or gone on to work or higher education with an understanding of the natural world which will last them a lifetime. 🥰You can support our work today, and help inspire children to protect nature tomorrow. Imagine if every MP and business leader had been inspired at a wildlife education centre as a child – would UK nature be safer? We think so. 🧡Your donation can help give more children and young people the chance to experience nature for themselves at centres like Paxton Pits https://www.wildlifebcn.org/wilderfuturefund