In 2024 Worcestershire Wildlife Trust was awarded funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to collaborate with and support communities to connect with and to help wildlife along the corridors of the rivers Severn and Salwarpe - from Droitwich to Kempsey.
Whether allotments, neglected green spaces or areas around faith or other community buildings, the Wilder Worcestershire team helps groups to learn more about managing greenspaces, finding volunteers and other groups to connect with as well as discovering more about the amazing natural world.
In our latest episode, Lee takes a stroll through Worcester, connecting the greenspaces for people and wildlife before reaching the Heart of Worcestershire College where students have been doing great things for wildlife in their urban garden.
Discover more about the Trust's community work https://www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/wilder-communities
The Trust would like to thank National Lottery players who make possible the funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
In 2022 Worcestershire Wildlife Trust bought 23 hectares of land at Green Farm next to their much-loved Monkwood nature reserve, a few miles north of Worcester.
Join podcast host Lee Robinson as he takes a walk with Dominique Cragg, manager of Monkwood, and Laura Ealam, project officer to see how wildlife is starting to thrive on Green Farm and to find out more about how communities are helping nature to spread its wings even further.
Find out more about how the project developed https://www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/monkwood-musings
The purchase of Green Farm was made possible by the generosity of the Trust’s members, the public, National Lottery players via The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Severn Waste Services, The Banister Charitable Trust, 3dtotal.com Ltd and The LG Harris Charitable Trust. The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation initially bought the land to give the Trust time to raise fundraise for its purchase.