Welcome to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is your local wildlife charity dedicated to looking after Staffordshire's wildlife and wild places. Welcome to our website! You can use our website to find out more about what we do, to sign-up as a member, read up on our current campaigns, find out how to volunteer with us and book onto an event plus much more.
We hope you can join us in protecting Staffordshire's unique natural environment for everyone to enjoy and wildlife to thrive in. Our work would not be possible without your support.
Speak up for badgers
We are asking you to contact your MP to get them to call on the Government to fast track its transition from culling to vaccinating to help save our badgers. Contact your MP with our simple online form!
What we do
Campaigning for wildlife
See which wildlife and wild places we are working to protect
Signs of summer
Summer is the time of year when wildlife is most abundant - there is so much to see and explore!
The long summer days are full of life. Bees, butterflies and other amazing insects flit from flower to flower and baby birds chirp at their parents for food.
The activity goes on under cover of darkness - bats sweep swiftly through the air, natterjacks chatter and nightjars churr, while glow-worms adorn the night with pinpricks of light.
The season also marks a great time to get to know moths, dragonflies, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles and all our other amazing minibeasts!
Looking for inspiration on how to connect with wildlife this summer? There are lots of wild ideas on how to support wildlife at home via our Get Wild at Home experience - it is FREE to sign-up.
We've picked some of our favourite summer highlights to look out for below!
What we're up to
Staffordshire celebrates new spider species
Autumn brings with it Halloween, which has long been associated with spiders and their spooky but wondrous webs. A fitting time of year…
Forest School launches at Trentham Gardens
Youngsters are being invited to connect with the outside world and to learn a range of new skills at a six-week Forest School course…
Project throws lifeline to globally-endangered species
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust is leading efforts to increase the population of the white-clawed crayfish through the South West Peak…
Go wild - upcoming events
We run events all over Staffordshire on nature reserves, our 2 visitor centres and in local parks. We have sessions for ages 0 - 100 from guided walks to grass sledging. What are you waiting for? Come and get wild with us!
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Keep in touch with us on social media. See below for all our accounts
