Seven-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) foraging on flowerbuds, Parade gardens park, Bath city, with Bath Abbey in the backgrond, UK, June. - Nick Upton/2020VISION
Nature positive partnerships
Work with us to help nature’s recovery, tackle the climate emergency, and fulfill your business’ environmental, social, and governance goals.
$44 trillion - The economic value generation that is moderately or highly dependent on nature – over half the world’s GDP.
Businesses are vital in tackling the climate and nature crises and fundamental to delivery of the Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted by 196 countries including the UK at COP15. The Wildlife Trusts form partnerships nationally and locally with businesses that closely align with our values and goal of protecting and connecting 30% of the UK’s land and sea by 2030. You can play a crucial role in helping us reach this goal, building resilience for nature, your business, and your communities.
Our partnerships
The Wildlife Trusts has a federated structure, combining local expertise with national engagement, and which means our partnerships take place at a local, regional, and national level.
Our partnerships have various imperatives at their heart: from facilitating landscape restoration and habitat creation, to carbon sequestration, as well as impact in the form of employee, customer, and community engagement with nature.
In return, we bring strategic value to our partners through our ecological expertise and reach with local communities, and we help companies understand how they can meet their obligations to nature, fulfil impactful ESG targets, and transform value chains to be nature-friendly. We also welcome partnerships that provide us with pro bono support to help us to reach our goals, such as legal and consulting services.
Our partners
Explore how our partnerships are making a positive impact – from supporting farmers in managing their land for nature, to guiding housing developers in placing wildlife at the heart of their plans, and inspiring employees to connect with nature and enjoy its wellbeing benefits.
Other ways you can support or work with us
The Wildlife Trusts are a federation, and we operate as an umbrella body for the 46 independent Wildlife Trust charities across the UK. We form partnerships at a national level but you can also connect with your local Wildlife Trust to explore how you can support their vital work.
Donation
- Business donations are gratefully received online. You can also get in touch and we will send you BACS bank details.
- If you would like to tell your customers that you are making a donation in relation to sales of goods and/services then to comply with charity and fundraising law, you might need to enter into a Commercial Participation Agreement with us. Tell us how your business, product or service link to nature and fit with our environmental values.
Sponsorship
Contact us to find out more about investing in a variety of wildlife and people projects, for example, restoring habitats, reintroducing species, supporting community wellbeing or driving green employment opportunities.
Fundraising or charity of the year
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This fundraising pack is full of ideas! It’s really easy to ‘fundraise in aid of’ a local Wildlife Trust or The Wildlife Trusts through Just Giving.
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Big Wild Walk during October half term is our national annual fundraising event which encourages the nation to get outdoors!
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If you would like us to be your charity partner of the year, then please tell us more about your fundraising plans and ambitions.
Supply of products or services
Tell us how your business, product or service will contribute to our environmental aims and goals.
Innovation and start ups
We would love to hear from companies at all stages of their growth working in digital and innovation, from start ups to established corporates. We are looking for organisations to work with us to develop new products and solutions that support natures recovery at scale across the Wildlife Trust movement. If you work in this space please contact our Head of Digital Transformation.
Managing land for nature
- Find out about managing your land for nature to achieve Biodiversity Benchmark accreditation.
Volunteering and organised team conservation
- Anyone can sign up as an individual for a variety of local volunteering opportunities with their local Wildlife Trust, however, these do typically require regular attendance.
- Pricing for organised team volunteering, or Wild Work Days as we call them, can be discussed with a local Wildlife Trust or at a national level as part of an annual agreement. Contact us.
