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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…
What is regenerative farming?
Ever wondered what regenerative farming is and how it compares to other farming approaches? Vicki Hird, The Wildlife Trusts’ new strategic lead on agriculture, looks at this farming buzzword and…
World Mental Health Day: The importance of nature connection
This World Mental Health Day, Dorset Local Nature Partnership Manager, Maria Clarke highlights the benefits of connecting with nature has on our mental health and wellbeing.
My wellbeing
My wild life started before I was old enough to walk, being regularly taken by my mother across the Epsom Downs to enjoy fresh air. Moving to rural Staffordshire aged 3, I was incredibly lucky to…
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…
Fund wildlife-friendly farming
By supporting farmers to shift towards regenerative, nature-friendly methods, farming has huge potential to deliver a green rural renewal.
Fund wildlife-friendly farming
By supporting farmers to shift towards regenerative, nature-friendly methods, farming has huge potential to deliver a green rural renewal.
Mental Health Awareness Day: Nature is within reach
Maria Clarke, the Dorset Local Nature Partnership Manager, talks about the importance of connecting with nature and the benefits this has to our mental health on Mental Health Awareness Day.
Nature and Wellbeing: A Community Map
Wilder Communities Officer, Anona Dawson, talks about the importance of nature and wellbeing and her involvement with the Turlin Moor Community Map project.
DWT launches new project to help promote health and happiness
Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) is launching the Greengage Project, a wellbeing ‘hub’ designed to offer a new lease of life to people in local communities, through ecotherapy and therapeutic…
Righting the apple cart: Where might Ministers look to save the farming transition?
The Government’s immediate suspension of nature-friendly farming schemes and the risk of spending cuts to Defra’s farming budget threatens to derail the agricultural transition. Our senior land…