Corporate membership

Barn Owl (Tyto alba) hunting UK © Andy Rouse/2020VISION

Joining our corporate community

Our corporate community believes Dorset’s natural environment is fundamental to their good business. The breath-taking landscapes, the world-famous coastline, the diversity of Dorset’s wildlife: these all make Dorset a unique and highly desirable place to live and work.

Maintaining this wonderful variety and balance in Dorset is key to attracting and keeping the quality of staff that run and lead great businesses.

Your business can see tangible benefits and gain great value from investing in Dorset Wildlife Trust, please think about joining our corporate community.

Our corporate supporters

Value returned can be tailored to benefit your business’s strategy and needs and can include...

Benefits for your staff

Such as Bespoke volunteering events, guided walks and engagement activities out on our reserves or possibly at your own site. We also provide inspiring and uplifting wildlife or conservation talks, from friendly experts. There’s half-price membership for your staff, so they can explore and enjoy some of the best bits of Dorset and discounted animal adoption schemes (such as red squirrels and seahorses).

Operational benefits

We can help you fulfil your corporate social responsibility policy with local projects, key to Dorset’s conservation and communities.

We can also provide expert conservation advice for mitigation for development planning and for management of your own grounds/land.

Commercial opportunities

Discounted advertising in the Dorset Wildlife Trust’s membership magazine (27,500 members in Dorset and constantly growing), sponsorship opportunities, including our hugely popular wildlife web-cams, public events, web pages and even some stunning Nature Reserves and events. You can also collaborate with us on ground-breaking wildlife and wellbeing projects that support wildlife, the environment and local communities. There are also invitations to lively membership events.

Corporate membership of Dorset Wildlife Trust enables local businesses and their staff to play an active role in securing a healthy natural environment for everyone.

Brian Bleese
Chief Executive, Dorset Wildlife Trust.

Corporate Volunteering Days

There’s no better way to promote a sense of team identity and achievement than getting everyone outside and working together for the greater good.

Working for wildlife and nature promotes health and wellbeing too, we’ve seen it for ourselves, as we’ve been working with volunteers for nearly 60 years now.

Roll down your trouser legs (gorse is prickly) and grab some gloves from us and join us - out at some stunning reserves for a day of great work for wildlife.

We make each day bespoke, so you can choose the reserve, the date and the task to suit your business, your staff and maybe even your customers.

It’s loads of fun, you leave a great legacy of good work for Dorset and you also get to improve staff wellbeing, team identity, corporate identity, communication, morale and the effects last.

We’ll look after you, providing detailed joining instructions, tools, gloves etc needed for the activities, health and safety, including risk assessment, tool talks, supervision and first aiders. So, what are you waiting for? Get on! Get Out (with us)!

Get in touch

To find out how you can benefit by joining with us contact Director of Fundraising and Marketing, Sara Thompson, on sthompson@dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk.