Our Focus
We are turning the tide for nature by creating grass roots solutions to issues we are seeing both locally and globally. We are proactively collaborating with national and regional organisations to bring about positive change. Our work focuses on the following 3 areas:
Education
Raising awareness and inspiring action
Nature Recovery
Engaging stakeholders to protect wildlife
Protecting Wildlife
Delivering nature recovery projects
Our projects
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Bringing Nature to Schools
We are working with 6 local schools to educate children in identifying, understanding and caring about the natural species that surround them – and in caring, help protect them for the future.
We are curating a range of inspiring experiences for over 300 local children to connect with nature including:
interactive workshops
supporting school trips
bringing nature story telling to school assemblies
providing animal habitats for school grounds such as hedgehog houses, bug hotels and bird boxes
Delivery partners: Tenterden Schools Trust, Kent Wildlife Trust’s Education team, Tenterden and District Museum, Kent & East Sussex Steam Railway and children’s author Jenny Bailey.
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Build it.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Grow it.
10.21 7:00-8:00PM
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
Farming with Nature
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We proactively collaborate with local landowners, farmers and decision making bodies to support farming practices that benefit nature and people.
Last year worked with Kent Wildlife Trust in a year-long study, with local farmers to contribute to the design of DEFRA’s new Environmental Land Management Scheme.
This year, we have joined Kent County Council’s ‘Making Space for Nature’ initiative for Kent and Medway. The scheme is one of 48 Local Nature Recovery Strategies to be developed across the length of Britain, involving working landowners and farmers in the Government’s commitment to ending the decline of nature and supporting its recovery.
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Kent Wildlife Trust & Kent County Council
Bringing Nature to Schools
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‘No one will protect what they don’t care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.’ (Sir David Attenborough)
We are working with 6 local schools to educate children to identify, understand and care about the natural species that surround them – and in caring, help protect them for the future.
From providing schools with hedge hog houses and bug hotels to delivering interactive workshops, supporting school trips and bringing nature story telling to assemblies.
We are curating a range of inspiring experiences for over 300 local children to connect with nature.
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Tenterden Schools Trust, Kent Wildlife Trust’s Education team, Tenterden and District Museum, Kent & East Sussex Steam Railway and children’s author Jenny Bailey.
Supporting Pollinators
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Kent’s flying insect population has diminished by as much as 75% in the last 20 years. Our grass-root solution has been to create a mosaic of unmown wildflower areas around Tenterden’s iconic tree-lined High Street, to provide vital food for local pollinators.
We also produced an awareness campaign with leaflets and posters to inform residents of the pressing need for this project to help reverse the loss of local pollinators and to encourage residents to follow our lead in mowing less and planting for pollinators.
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Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Ashford Borough Council and Kent County Council.
Wildlife Corridor
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A vital green corridor runs between Tenterden and Bodiam along the Kent & East Sussex Railway line. We have been working to help enhance and preserve its important wildlife, starting with surveys to establish its ecological value.
We will explore the possibility of grant funding to widen the green corridor by incorporating adjacent land to increase habitats for rare and vulnerable species. We are also looking at opportunities for community engagement and working with local schools to maximise the potential for wildlife education.
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Janus Foundation, Kent Wildlife Trust, Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Kent & East Sussex Railway.
Wildlife Haven
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Increasing numbers of golf clubs are looking for ecologically friendly solutions to golf course design and maintenance, creating the potential for developing significant wildlife havens, as golf courses occupy 2,700 hectares of land across England.
Tenterden Golf Club is part of this movement and we are working with them to enhance the biodiversity of the course by:
Clearing ponds of invasive bulrushes and replanting them with marginal and aquatic species that will support more pondlife
Expanding woodland, widening hedges and increasing areas of rough
Regenerating scrub suitable for ground-nesting birds
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Tenterden Schools Trust, Kent Wildlife Trust’s Education team, Tenterden and District Museum, Kent & East Sussex Steam Railway and children’s author Jenny Bailey.
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