Wildlife Guardians
I would like to invite you to join the Wildlife Guardians
Wildlife Guardians are like-minded individuals who are financially committed to protecting the natural heritage of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
Within living memory, these counties were rich with birdsong, colourful wildflowers and a glorious abundance of native wild animals and plants.
Today, it is a very different story. Many of our precious wildlife species are in decline or dangerously close to extinction. Agricultural intensification, urban development and climate change have all had an impact on our landscape over the last century. Woodlands have been cleared, wetlands drained and hedgerows removed.
The Wildlife Trust is determined to do something about this. We will create a landscape where wildlife is flourishing and recovering from past decline. This approach to conservation is called Living Landscapes. We have already begun, by making our nature reserves even bigger, even better and where we can we’re linking them together.
By joining the Wildlife Guardians you will play a
big part in protecting our wildlife and creating this landscape. The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire already has an impressive track record
of conservation successes, with your help we can work even harder to protect local wildlife for future generations.
Brian Eversham
Chief Executive
Help us – Become a Wildlife Guardian
By joining Wildlife Guardians, with an annual gift of between £500 and £5,000, you will make a significant difference to wildlife in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. As a Wildlife Guardian, we will involve you closely in our work and provide opportunities for you to take part in a variety of ways.
We also promise:
To update you regularly about the change you are making, and when there is news we’ll make sure that you’re the first to hear.
Special access to our staff, who will be happy to answer your wildlife questions, and talk to you about our work.
Invitations to Wildlife Guardians’ special events from Wildlife Guardians’ guided walks and lunches to exhibitions to connect with other, like-minded supporters, and hear from senior staff about our work.
The opportunity to visit the work you are supporting to see first-hand the difference you are making.
Twice-yearly Wildlife Guardians’ newsletters containing reports on the work that you are making possible.
Acknowledgement of your membership in our Annual Report. (We will of course respect the privacy of Wildlife Guardians who wish to remain anonymous).
These are our ways of saying thank you.
Your gift will make a difference
Your donation will go towards our general funds to allow long term planning. These funds will provide us with immediate access to resources whenever and wherever the need is greatest.
This is the difference your donation could make:
£500 could pay for a Really Wild Day Out for 20 school children on one of our reserves
£1,000 could enable us to fight a damaging planning application
£2,500 could fund one year’s livestock management on a trust reserve
£5,000 could buy an acre of threatened habitat
Membership Level |
Minimum donation |
Value of donation to BCN Wildlife Trust after |
Final cost to higher rate (40%) taxpayer after tax relief |
Final cost to higher rate (50%) taxpayer after tax relief |
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Perring |
£500 |
£625 |
£375 |
£312.50 |
Clare |
£1,000 |
£1,250 |
£750 |
£625 |
Rothschild |
£2,500 |
£3,125 |
£1,875 |
£1,562.50 |
Darwin |
£5,000 |
£6,250 |
£3,750 |
£3,125 |
“I manage my own land for wildlife but I still invest in the work of my local Wildlife Trust because they have the staff, skills and expertise to make every pound count towards nature conservation. A donation to this organisation really does offer a great wildlife return on investment.”
Matt Moser, Northamptonshire
Farmer & Accountant
Perring Guardian £46.66 per month £500 per annum
Franklyn Perring was founder of both Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Trusts; founder of the National Biological Records Centre; author of the first Atlas of the British flora, and the most recent flora of Cambridgeshire.
Clare Guardian £83.33 per month £1,000 per annum
John Clare, the Northamptonshire poet who is now regarded as the most important poet of the English countryside.
Rothschild Guardian ... £208.33 per month ... £2,500 per annum
Founder of the Wildlife Trust movement, Charles Rothschild’s descendants continue to support the work of RSWT.
Darwin Guardian ......... £416.66 per month ... £5,000 per annum
Charles Darwin laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.
To find out more about Wildlife Guardians please call David Jones on 01954 713515 or email david.jones@wildlifebcn.org