Art and the Environment
As a result of storytelling workshops with people in Verwood organised as part of the Urban Green project, their stories, memories and feelings about their local area have been fashioned into this…
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Young people connect with nature at Love Your Heath event on Upton Heath
Young people gathered on Upton Heath yesterday for Love Your Heath, a day of discovery, creativity, and community rooted in the unique heathland landscape of Dorset.
Connecting people with nature
We aim to Inspire people and communities to learn about, value and act for wildlife and Dorset’s wild places. Our ambition is that 1 in 4 people in Dorset are involved with nature.
The Reality Of Dorset’s Marine Environment: An Overview
Dorset Wildlife Trust has been working with Participation People to train eight fantastic young people (14-17) in journalism skills. They have been producing a series of blogs, social media posts…
Urban Green project engaging young people
An important aim of the Urban Green project is to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in conservation-led initiatives. In recent months, we have been working with two groups of young people…
The Wildlife Trusts initial response to the 25 year environment plan
Theresa May’s speech on the environment shows that, at last, a Government is seeing how much the environment means to the people of the UK, not least young people. Both the speech and the plan…
New project promotes ‘Natural Sparkle’ for people in Dorset
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) has launched an exciting new health and wellbeing project, ‘Natural Sparkle’. Supported by Southern Co-op, the project aims to provide a suite of nature-based…
Chief Exec's Blog: Protecting Dorset's marine environment
Together with our partner wildlife trusts around the UK, we have set ourselves the ambitious goal of ensuring that 30% of the UK’s land and sea is managed favourably for nature by 2030. This is a…
Big Give for Wild Brownsea: Connecting people with nature
From 18-25 April, we are fundraising to support our vital work to give more people the opportunity to get involved in the conservation work and experience the incredible wildlife on Brownsea…
Chief Exec's blog: Connecting people with nature
Nature’s recovery is vital for everyone, and we all have a role to play in making sure that we can deliver and benefit from a Wilder Dorset.
Mental Health Awareness Week and nature
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (10th-16th May), and at Dorset Wildlife Trust we are delighted that the theme for 2021, is nature. After a particularly hard year, we are probably all…
Mental Health Awareness Week: 5 Ways to Wellbeing
Dorset Wildlife Trust has been working with Participation People to train eight fantastic young people (14-17) in journalism skills. They have been producing a series of blogs, social media posts…