Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
Worwin UK Foundation
About Worwin UK Foundation
The Worwin UK Foundation is a grant making foundation striving to make a difference during and beyond their lifetime.
They prioritise protecting the irreplaceable wild spaces that remain and better managing where and how we farm and forest for the benefit of current and future generations.
How Worwin UK Foundation is helping The Wildlife Trusts
Transforming land management
Worwin UK Foundation is supporting The Wildlife Trusts to progress sustainable agriculture by transforming land management. Around 70% of land in England is used for farming. In the nature and climate crises that we face, where and how we use food has a huge impact on nature’s recovery. Using nature-friendly farming methods leads to healthy soils, clean water, more wildlife - and resilient, profitable businesses which can better cope with challenges.
With support from Worwin UK Foundation, The Wildlife Trusts are working to help farmers help nature through our land management advice service. We want to see government support for nature-friendly farming practices, so that nature can thrive on farmland. We will work to influence policy at the same time as influencing change on the ground.
Combine harvesting Oat fields at Haregill Lodge Farm, Ellingstring, North Yorkshire - Paul Harris/2020VISION
Peatland acquisition and restoration
With support from Worwin UK Foundation in 2021, The Wildlife Trusts have been restoring the UK’s peatlands and raising public and political awareness about their importance. Funding helped us to buy, replant and restore large areas of degraded peatlands across the country, protecting them from future harm and connecting them to existing fragments of peatland so that wildlife can thrive.
There have been some wonderful biodiversity improvements seen on the sites including minotaur beetles in Kent; fat-bodied water scorpion in Somerset; and farmland and wetland birds in Lancashire.
We exceeded our targets for both acquisition and restoration, and greenhouse gas measurements indicate that there have been substantial reductions in emissions from the peatland as it has been rewetted.
We are continuing to work to secure greater legal protection for peatlands and exploring how paludiculture, a wet farming technique, could help to protect peatlands. For information on peatlands, their role in climate change and the wildlife which call them home, click here.
Bogbean Menyanthes trifoliata, growing in pool on bog peatland at dawn, Flow Country, Scotland, June - Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
