Wilder Future Fund
Let's Create a Wilder Future for Nature.
The Wilder Future Fund is an ambitious effort to raise £1.5 million over the next five years to help nature recover across our three counties.
Focussing on three critical areas, the aim is to:
- Put nature into recovery
- Help communities take action for wildlife
- Work on nature-based solutions for a changing climate
The Wilder Future Fund supports the vital work we do for all the habitats and species we care for across our reserves and wider countryside. After previously spotlighting wetlands and woodlands, we’re now turning our attention to the importance of grasslands and meadows.
We know what we need to do, but we need your help to step up our work for a wilder future.
Nature in Recovery
Why is a hay cut needed? Nene Wetlands Ranger, Pete Bray, explains why cutting the grass is so important to keep our wildflower meadows healthy.
People Taking Action
Get involved in counting orchids. Our Youth Rangers play an important role in carrying out orchid surveys at many of our wonderful nature reserves. Across May there are a number of opportunities to join them in this vital monitoring work.
Natural Solutions
Banking on Butterflies. The Banking on Butterflies project aim was to improve our understanding of how to support butterflies in the face of climate change using mounds of earth called ‘butterfly banks’. Find out what we’ve learnt since 2021.
Donating £25
could help towards keeping the nature reserves you love in the best condition for wildlife.
Donating £50
could buy tools for a community volunteer work party. Â
Donating £100
could help train and support people to take action for wildlife on their own land, helping species spread beyond our nature reserves into the wider countryside.ÂWhere to see Grasslands and Meadows
Trumpington Meadows
A spacious expanse of flowering meadows, riverside, woodland, hedgerow and parkland in Cambridgeshire.
Fulbourn Fen
Fulbourn Fen marsh orchid by Luca Patriccioli
An ancient grassland, bursting with flowers and insects in Cambridgeshire.
Blow's Downs
A flower rich grassland on steep chalk hills on the boundary between Luton and Dunstable in Bedfordshire.
Houghton Meadows
Matt Hamilton
Five pretty meadows; very colourful from spring to summer in Cambridgeshire.
Totternhoe
Credit: Gwen Hitchcock
The result of medieval quarrying with an array of chalk-loving wildflowers in Bedfordshire.
Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit
Steep hills and tranquil valleys in the Chilterns, Bedfordshire with magnificent views of the countryside.
Upwood Meadows
Ancient grazing meadows with wildflowers galore near Ramsey, Cambridgeshire.
Fancott Meadows
The Wildlife Trust BCN
Traditional wildflower meadow and ancient woodland in Bedfordshire.
