Finding funding
How to find funding for community groups in Wiltshire & Swindon.
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Lapwing
The distinctive rounded wings of the lapwing are displayed beautifully when it wheels around a winter sky in a massive flock. In spring, these flocks disperse and some birds breed in the UK.…
Planning Applications
A guide to help you respond to planning applications in Wiltshire.
Land caddis
The Land caddis is the only caddisfly in the UK to spend its entire time on land, with no stage in water. Look in oak leaf litter over winter to see the grainy cases of the larvae, in which they…
Planting Hope
Working towards the long-term recovery of the rare marsh fritillary butterfly.
A Wilder Farm Project
Orchards, ponds, trees and bees reveal the joys of habitat creation on a local sheep farm.
My windswept lands
BBC presenter, Ben Garrod, loves Norfolk’s huge skies, breath-taking beauty and its untamed wild side. So much so he has become Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s first Ambassador, helping to inspire others…
How to do companion planting
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
Funding your community project
Do you have a great idea to help improve the environment, tackle climate change, reduce carbon or increase wildlife in Wiltshire? This fund could help make it happen.
Swift
Swifts spend most of their lives flying – even sleeping, eating and drinking – only ever landing to nest. They like to nest in older buildings in small holes in roof spaces.
Finding Your Way Around the Reserve
Navigation has been made easier at Coombe Bissett Down with the introduction of timed walking routes and waymarkers.
Major conservation project to help breeding lapwing across Wiltshire is launched
Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre (WSBRC) and Wiltshire Wildlife Trust are rolling out a landscape-scale project to locate, monitor and conserve the remaining breeding lapwing.