Projects

Working together with local communities to give people the skills, tools, and opportunities to take action for nature

Healing Nature created more resilient conditions for wildlife to thrive and connected local communities with nature in 2021/22.

Discover Brightwater was a National Lottery Heritage Fund supported landscape partnership project.

A partnership project with Northumbrian Water to restore habitat for wildlife.

Bringing together local people and Durham Wildlife Trust to transform community areas into havens for wildlife.

Working with local communities and partners to conserve, enhance and celebrate the natural, industrial and cultural heritage.

SeaScapes is a marine landscape partnership scheme benefitting our coastal heritage, the marine environment and local communities.

This project worked with communities across Gateshead so that local people could be part of nature’s recovery.

A project to restore nature and benefit communities in 13 green spaces across Sunderland’s Coalfield area.

The North East Community Forest will see tens of thousands of trees planted across the region.

A project that established verified records of reptiles across the vice county 66 region and continues to benefit reptile populations today.

The Living Uplands project was founded to focus attention on the sixth most endangered bird in the UK, the Black Grouse.

Involving members & volunteers in ongoing species survey work on Durham Wildlife Trust reserves.

Naturally Native is a project that will save the water vole, one of Britain’s most charismatic mammals, from extinction in the North East.

A multi-partner project focused on marine habitat restoration.

A one-year project focused on the restoration of Cuthbert’s Moor, a 121-hectare upland moorland site in Teesdale.

A Northumbrian Water scheme for delivering water environment improvements, supported by Durham Wildlife Trust in the North East.