Wilder Future Fund

Wilder Future Fund

£59,797 of £500,000 Year 1 goal

Wilder Future Fund

Help create a wilder future for our wetlands

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The Wilder Future Fund is an ambitious effort to raise £500,000 a year over the next three years - £1.5 million 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

We know what we need to do, but we need your help to step up our work for a wilder future.

Yes, I'll help

You are already helping nature recover

Your support has already made a huge impact on helping nature recover in our three counties, and especially for wetlands. In the last two years you have: 

  • brought beavers back to Northamptonshire after a 400-year absence.  These eco-engineers are eating their way through the willow, allowing the reedbed to expand for the benefit of wading birds, and expanding a network of canals and watery areas for the benefit of many invertebrates.
  • filled in the final piece of the jigsaw at the Great Fen by buying Speechly’s Farm, linking the National Nature Reserves of Holme Fen and Woodwalton Fen. More than 2,000 hectares of land at the Great Fen is now under restoration, making the Fens wet again.
  • purchased Strawberry Hill in Bedfordshire, an important rewilded site for nightingales, ensuring this precious place is saved for wildlife - including the wildlife that uses the stream running through the site, and the many ponds that need care and restoration.

With your help we can do even more

Let's do more

How your donation can help

The scrape at Summer Leys

Donating £25

could help towards keeping the wetland nature reserves you love in the best condition for wildlife.
Work party rakes by Caroline Fitton

Donating £50

could buy tools for a community volunteer work party.  
Three work experience students help with surveying newt traps with Henry. One takes photos on a phone, one sits on the bench recording on a clipboard and one kneels to open to traps

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. 

You can be sure your money will go towards helping nature recover and achieve the vision of more nature everywhere. 

Donations from the appeal will be classified as unrestricted and used by the Wildlife Trust BCN to achieve its charitable purposes, progressing work to restore wildlife, recover landscapes and engage communities.