Dredging: Effectiveness and risks
Widespread dredging could make flooding in some communities worse in future – not better – according to a new report published by The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (…
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Environmental groups and Monty Don write to Government calling for end to use of peat compost
Environmental groups have come together to write a letter to the Environment Secretary calling for a ban on the use of peat in compost by 2025. Celebrity gardener, broadcaster and writer Monty Don…
The Wildlife Trusts join other environmental organisations and cross-party MPs in calls to strengthen post-Brexit environmental protections
The Wildlife Trusts today joins the Greener UK coalition of environmental groups today to announce that it is working with a cross-party group of MPs to strengthen the government's Repeal…
Underwhelmed: The Wildlife Trusts’ response to the Environmental Improvement Plan
Read our response to the much-anticipated new Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP).
Practical Conservation Work Groups
This link will open on the Somerset Wildlife Trust website.
The practical conservation work groups carry out essential habitat management tasks for the benefit of local wildlife. Tasks are dependent on the season, but include coppicing, fencing or walling…
Bank accounts for groups
Information about types of bank accounts for community groups. You need one to get money or grants. This tells you what you need to open one.
New leader for The Wildlife Trusts – environmental campaigner Craig Bennett
Craig Bennett, has been appointed as the new CEO of The Wildlife Trusts.
Insurance for local groups
What is insurance, why do you need it and how do you get it? This is not formal insurance advice.
Evidence shows PM’s plan to slash environmental protections is based on inaccuracies
MPs and environmental groups urge a rethink to avoid nature catastrophe
Farming, food and nature – a triple challenge for this election
Politicians are notoriously wary of talking about food.
Nervous that anything they say publicly about changing the system will be construed as hiking prices of, or affecting access to,…
Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS) Landscape Recovery
The Landscape Recovery scheme is one of the Government’s Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMS). It funds the development of landscape scale projects in England, to produce beneficial environmental and climate outcomes through habitat and ecosystem restoration.
Environmental Net Gain Manager (Maternity cover)
This link will open on the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust website.
We are currently looking for an organised and proactive Environmental Net Gain Manager to lead the delivery of our growing Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) programme during a period of maternity cover…