Community groups and projects

Opportunities we have for adults to get involved with wild places and wildlife

Community groups and projects

Get wild outdoors

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is working with communities and supporting groups to improve spaces for people and wildlife. Here’s some of the projects we’re working on and the groups you can get involved in.

Community Projects

Working with communities is crucial to creating a wilder Staffordshire. That’s why it’s part of our strategy and how we operate. We’ve completed and are running projects that support people right across the county. You can see an overview of our projects below, and click on each one to find out more about them.

Community Groups

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust supports community groups with advising them on the best ways to help wildlife. Through events, talks, and answering questions.

Helping them to take the lead in getting 1 in 4 people in Staffordshire taking action for nature. And linking them up with a network of groups that can support each other to take action for the environment and create a wilder Staffordshire.

Staffordshire Green Network

The Staffordshire Green Network support community groups, charities, CIC’s, voluntary sector and local authorities in Staffordshire to address the climate and ecological emergency together. Providing networking events, training and skill sharing, and communications.  Helping groups support each other, form partnerships, and work together to take action for the environment and create a wilder Staffordshire. By working together our actions will have a greater impact. 

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is supporting the Green Network, helping to run a series of community conversations events across the county. You can hear about some of them on the website for our Transforming The Trent Valley Website.

Staffordshire Wildlife Trust sits on the steering group for the network along with Support Staffordshire, VAST, SCVYS, Together Active, Globe group, Community Foundation of Staffordshire and others.

Local Groups

Image credit: Matthew Roberts

Local Groups

Joining one of the Local Groups is a great way to learn more about wildlife, meet like-minded people and help the work of Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. The Local Group network offer regular walks and talks. If you want to get even more involved, there are usually vacancies for committee members on each group. 

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A group of woman and men stand and sit in two rows in a woodland setting with bunting strung up between the trees

The incredible Hodge Lane Conservation Group celebrating 20 years of volunteering.

Wild About Tamworth

Wild About Tamworth has supported teams of volunteers to carry out practical conservation in local greenspaces for over 20 years.

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A woman reaches over a table set up outside to assist a child with making a creature out of clay. The family watches as the child makes art. Trees and gardening signs make up the background.

Christine Harding

Nextdoor Nature

Nextdoor Nature has advised and supported groups to improve green spaces, create community memorial gardens, and engaged communities to learn more about wildlife.

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Flower at Hem Heath Woods

Wilder Neighbourhoods

This Know Your Neighbourhood funded project is helping more people in Stoke form connections with nature and their local community.

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