About Us
Our vision is for more nature everywhere, for everyone.
Herefordshire is a special and unique county. The tapestry of the natural world is rich, with our iconic rivers the Wye and Lugg, our Herefordshire floodplain meadows, the wonderful wooded valleys of the Marches, our traditional orchards and the uplands of the Black Mountains and Malverns.
We all need nature – for sustainable food production, good health, mental wellbeing and a thriving economy - but, facing an ecological and climate crisis, nature needs us more than ever too. Our mission, therefore, is to lead local action in our county, enabling our communities, businesses and wider partners to bring nature back.
To recover nature, we need 30% of all land in our county properly managed for nature by 2030. And that’s good for other 'public goods’, including carbon sequestration, climate adaptation and mitigation, and nutrient neutrality, too. Working together, we can create bigger, wilder, more connected landscapes across our county, so nature, people and local economies can thrive.
To get there we have three strategic goals: putting nature in recovery; taking action for nature; sustaining our organisation's future.
What we do
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We manage 60 Nature Reserves - that's around 530 hectares of land reserved for wildlife
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We run landscape and species recovery projects within landscapes across the county
- We work with people in communities engaging, inspiring and educating them about wildlife.
- We run events and workshops and provide professional training for volunteers and trainees.
How we do it
- We are supported by over 7,000 members from across Herefordshire and beyond.
- We are assisted in all elements of our work by over 200 fantastic volunteers!
The Wildlife Trusts
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trust movement. There are 46 Wildlife Trusts across the whole of the UK, the Isle of Man and Alderney. Together we have more than 870,000 members, over 32,500 volunteers, 2,500 staff and 600 trustees. The Wildlife Trusts are the largest UK voluntary organisation dedicated to conserving the whole range of the UK's habitats and species.
Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, along with each of the other 45 Wildlife Trusts, is an independent, autonomous charity with its own Trustees. We are a member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) which operates as an umbrella organisation for all 46 Wildlife Trusts and helps coordinate campaigns at a national level.