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Craig gives up his time volunteering in the Bluebell Community Garden. Transforming the garden into a positive space for local people to enjoy, Craig has felt himself become relaxed and happier,…
Projects
Durham Wildlife Trust delivers a wide range of conservation and engagement projects annually, restoring Durham’s threatened habitats and species, and reconnecting people with the natural world around them.
To find out more about the wide benefits our project work is bringing to wildlife and communities near your please follow the links to the project pages below.
To find out more about the wide benefits our project work is bringing to wildlife and communities near your please follow the links to the project pages below.
Enrichment Pilot Project
Durham Wildlife Trust has been selected as a delivery partner for the National Citizen Service Trust (NCS) and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Enrichment Partnership Pilot scheme.
Healing Nature Project Sites
Durham Wildlife Trust's Healing Nature project has sites across Gateshead, Sunderland and South Tyneside. Check out the interactive PDFs and discover and learn more about the sites near you…
Cuthbert’s Moor Managing Moors project
An update from the Cuthbert's Managing Moors Project, by Project Officer Rebecca Clark.
Land caddis
The Land caddis is the only caddisfly in the UK to spend its entire time on land, with no stage in water. Look in oak leaf litter over winter to see the grainy cases of the larvae, in which they…
A project update from Cuthbert's Moor
Managing Moors Officer, Rebecca Clark, gives an update on the Trust's work to-date at Cuthbert's Moor Nature Reserve.
A week in the life of a Healing Nature Project Officer
There is no typical week for our conservation team. In this blog, one of our Healing Nature Project Officers, Alison Laing, details some of the exciting and varied tasks she has undertaken so far…
'Healing Nature' project gets the go-ahead
The Trust is to create several jobs after being awarded more than £400,000 of Government funding to deliver a “landmark” conservation programme.
Invitation to tender - Stronger Shores project: boat charter
The Stronger Shores project invites tender applications from vessel providers for the regular charter of a nearshore workboat or survey vessel to monitor a sensor array site located within 5…
Sessile oak
The Sessile oak is so-called because its acorns are not held on stalks like those of the familiar English oak. It can be found in woodlands mainly in the north and west of the UK.