Essex Wildlife Trust, Abbotts Hall Farm, Gt Wigborough, Colchester, Essex CO5 7RZ
Essex Wildlife Trust is a charity that exists to secure a better future for the wildlife and people of Essex
Established in 1959, we depend on membership subscriptions, donations and legacies to fund the majority of our work. We also receive some sponsorship from business, and grants from organisations such as English Nature, The Countryside Commission and The Heritage Lottery Fund.
Essex Wildlife Trust is the leading conservation organisation of its kind in Essex. We have over 32,000 members and 450 corporate supporters, and we look after more than 7,250 acres of land on 87 nature reserves and 1 nature park in the county.
We spend nearly £1.5m each year caring for Essex wildlife and encouraging others to do the same.
We have over 2,000 volunteers who freely give their time and skills to support conservation in Essex, and 84 full-time staff.
Last year we taught over 38,700 children and adults about wildlife on over 1,100 separate events, activities and teaching days. This included nearly 11,000 pupils and students visiting on 260 school field visits to our sites. Outreach visits to schools reached a further 8,500 pupils. Over 10,000 people joined one of our 990 informal activites such as wildlife discovery days, family events, birthday parties, youth group trips, Green bunch work parties and various toddler groups. Our community programmes reached over 9,000 people on 125 community projects, events and liaisons, with over 4,000 reached at Plant Havering alone!
Thirteen Local Trust Groups organise local events, raise funds for the Trust, help manage the nature reserves, and deliver the Trust magazine in their area, saving the Trust thousands of pounds each year - money that can be spent directly on conservation.
Our detailed survey work has enabled us to produce Essex Wildlife 2000: a Vision for the 21st Century. This explains how we can all take action for healthy streams and otters, rich woodlands and badgers, diverse farmland and skylarks, and our unique coastline and the wildfowl it supports.
We welcome over 200,000 visitors at our Visitor Centres each year.
We run nearly 100 wildlife courses and activity days for adults and children each year.
Essex Wildlife Trust is a member of The Wildlife Trusts, a partnership of 46 wildlife trusts across Britain who work together to benefit wildlife.
Essex Wildlife Trust is the leading conservation organisation of its kind in Essex. We have over 32,000 members and 450 corporate supporters, and we look after more than 7,250 acres of land on 87 nature reserves and 1 nature park in the county.
We spend nearly £1.5m each year caring for Essex wildlife and encouraging others to do the same.
We have over 2,000 volunteers who freely give their time and skills to support conservation in Essex, and 84 full-time staff.
Last year we taught over 38,700 children and adults about wildlife on over 1,100 separate events, activities and teaching days. This included nearly 11,000 pupils and students visiting on 260 school field visits to our sites. Outreach visits to schools reached a further 8,500 pupils. Over 10,000 people joined one of our 990 informal activites such as wildlife discovery days, family events, birthday parties, youth group trips, Green bunch work parties and various toddler groups. Our community programmes reached over 9,000 people on 125 community projects, events and liaisons, with over 4,000 reached at Plant Havering alone!
Thirteen Local Trust Groups organise local events, raise funds for the Trust, help manage the nature reserves, and deliver the Trust magazine in their area, saving the Trust thousands of pounds each year - money that can be spent directly on conservation.
Our detailed survey work has enabled us to produce Essex Wildlife 2000: a Vision for the 21st Century. This explains how we can all take action for healthy streams and otters, rich woodlands and badgers, diverse farmland and skylarks, and our unique coastline and the wildfowl it supports.
We welcome over 200,000 visitors at our Visitor Centres each year.
We run nearly 100 wildlife courses and activity days for adults and children each year.
Essex Wildlife Trust is a member of The Wildlife Trusts, a partnership of 46 wildlife trusts across Britain who work together to benefit wildlife.
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