The National Lottery Heritage Fund

In 2024, we received a £250,000 grant that is enabling us to work with community groups along the Salwarpe and Severn rivers, from Kempsey to Droitwich Spa, building on the success of Wilder Worcester (Green Recovery Challenge Fund grant) to enhance greenspaces, support wildlife and inspire people to take action for nature in their own local areas.

In 2022, we received a £240,374 grant to purchase 59 acres of land at Green Farm, adjacent to our Monkwood nature reserve, in central Worcestershire, allowing us to improve connectivity through tree planting, natural regeneration and habitat creation, linking several important wildlife sites including Monkwood Green, Ockeridge Wood and Grimley Brook.

In 2021, we received a £523,600 grant to purchase Dropping Well Farm and restore it as lowland heathland, connecting four surrounding Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Wildlife Sites (SWS) to create a 160-hectare heathland block, the largest in Worcestershire, located between Bewdley, Kidderminster and Stourport.

In 2020, we were awarded over £200,000 as part of The Heritage Lottery Fund’s help for organisations to respond to the Covid 19 crisis. With the funding we were able to support key activities of the Trust, respond to emerging challenges like a huge increase in visitor numbers to our nature reserves and better equip ourselves for the future by supporting IT and connectivity investments to help us fundraise and deliver our mission.

In 2018 we received a grant of £197,000 for the purchase of an internationally important collection of wildflower meadows in the Malvern Chase area along with the delivery of a programme of community engagement activities including oral history, schools work and a cycle route around the historic meadows network.

In 2018 we received a grant of £10,000 for an oral history project gathering stories from our volunteers to mark our 50^th anniversary.

In 2015 we received a grant of £84,440 to purchase Blackhouse Wood, a 38.5 hectare ancient, semi-natural woodland in the Malvern Hills AONB.

A grant of £65,900 in 2014 allowed us to purchase and restore this unusually large 16 hectare traditional grassland site located just south of Castlemorton Common, in the Malvern Hills District.

In 2009 we received a grant of £50,000 to increase engagement of communities with their local nature reserves.

A grant of £50,000 in 2007 enabled us to purchase and restore these two nationally important arable fields at Naunton Beauchamp.

In 2006 we received a grant of £13,700 to restore the ancient orchard at Tiddesley Wood – one of the few remaining plum orchards in the Vale of Evesham.