The Trusts, which together have over 100,000 members, are Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Herefordshire, Gwent, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Birmingham and the Black Country, supported by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts.
Collectively the Trusts comprise the largest NGO delivery partner for environmental improvement in a connected landscape covering over 10% of England and Wales.
The partnership has been set up to:
- Increase our effectiveness at creating and delivering landscape-scale improvements which make a significant difference in tackling the biodiversity crisis.
- Enhance our capacity to raise green finance to make change possible, focusing on building a pipeline of fundable schemes which deliver for nature while also providing benefits in areas such as carbon capture, water quality and flood prevention.
- Strengthen our voice, so we can engage more effectively with the public and thereby achieve greater impact for nature across national and county boundaries.
The partnership is now engaging with funders and key stakeholders concerned with nature in our region, and we are building our capacity to deliver.
Ed Green, Chief Executive of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust said: “To deliver for nature on the scale that is required to address biodiversity loss, we need to operate on a bigger scale and draw in more finance. This partnership is designed to do exactly that, so across our region we can significantly increase our impact”.
Adam Taylor, the Chief Executive of Gwent Wildlife Trust commented: “This is a very important development for our region. By strengthening the connections between the Welsh and English Trusts serving highly connected landscapes we can speed up the recovery of nature by getting more large projects up and running”.
