Current Projects

Nature helps us feel healthier and happier! Daily contact with nature is linked with better health, less stress and improved concentration, whether it’s stretching your legs in your local park, listening to birds in your garden, or visiting a nature reserve. Explore our Five Ways to Wild Wellbeing pages for inspiration, ideas and practical activities…

Nextdoor Nature 2022-2024 Nextdoor Nature ran from 2022-2024 but its legacy lives on and will continue to bring communities together to help nature flourish where they live and work! The project was made possible thanks to £5 million funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, which provided people with the advice and support they needed to…

This new partnership with Northumbrian Water means that we have a full-time conservation officer Mat Dove-Jones working at Portrack Marsh SSSI Nature Reserve and assisting NWL with the management of their sites in the Tees Valley area. Mat will be working with volunteers and the local community to improve these spaces for people and wildlife.…

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We are asking people to take simple actions to help coastal and marine wildlife Will YOU join the Wild Coast Team? Meet the Wilder Coast Team News and events Find out more about coastal wildlife

The Climate Action Middlesbrough project is funded by the National Lottery through the Climate Action Fund and is made up of multiple partner organisations working together to reduce the town’s carbon footprint and inspire changes in individuals, communities and organisations. The partnership includes Middlesbrough Environment City, Actes, Linx Youth Project, The Other Perspective, Thirteen Group,…

Sponsor a barn owl nest box in 2025 Help our owl conservation project in 2025 by sponsoring a barn owl box in East Cleveland or the Tees Valley for just £10.00. These boxes give owls a place to breed, replacing nest sites lost through rural development.  Each sponsor will be told the general location of…

To order and pay by Paypal or Credit Card. Use the Donate button above to either donate by Pay Pal or pay by Credit Card and include “Wilder Community Green Spaces” in “Add special instructions to the seller” and don’t forget to tick the box “Share your mailing address with Tees Valley Wildlife Trust” so…

Naturally Native has come to an end.The project was a joint project between Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, Durham Wildlife Trust and Northumberland Wildlife Trust and finished on 31st December. We are delighted to report that it achieved all its aims: we improved water vole habitat along 11km of riverbank, dug three fantastic ponds, spoke to over 700 school kids…

Our natural world is in trouble This is no secret. Wildlife is disappearing at an alarming rate – some are calling it the next mass extinction – and the threat of climate catastrophe is a constant worry. We live in a time of emergency. There is still hope – we can tackle both of these critical issues – but we have to act now. Time…

We are the local Nature Partnership for the Tees Valley, designated by the Secretary of State. With over 40 organisations, we work together to support nature so it can support us.

In 2012 the Trust conducted an evaluation of our Inclusive Volunteering Project which has worked since 2006 to improve people’s health and well-being through volunteering for nature. We wanted to show that quite simply, ‘green is good for everyone’ but also how it is good for everyone. Our projects connect people with their local environment…

Around half the UK’s wildlife lives in the sea – from microscopic plankton to mighty whales. But our seas are under pressure from all sides.  A sustainable society and economy needs productive and healthy seas. Yet for many years pollution, unsustainable development and the way we fish have damaged and depleted our seas. Our vision is for…

Update – The ‘Sensing The Wild’ (STW) project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and they have produced a podcast to help people with sight loss to stay connected to our green spaces at home by listening to talks and sounds from their local parks and woodlands.Produced by Leigh Nicholson Project Coordinator ‘Sensing the…

Let’s invite wildlife back The Wildlife Trusts and the RHS set up Wild About Gardens to celebrate wildlife gardening and to encourage people to use their gardens to take action to help support nature. Many of our common garden visitors – including hedgehogs, house sparrows and starlings – are increasingly under threat. But together we can make a difference.…

Conservation of the geological interest of the Tees Valley as well as its wildlife interest has always been a concern of the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust and is included in the organisation’s objectives registered with the Charity Commission. Some ten years ago the Trust established the Tees Valley RIGS Group to carry out a geological…

As part of the Growing Food for the Future Project the Trust working with Martin Allen decided to completely revamp the schools garden here at Margrove Heritage Centre. The brief given to Martin was to create to create an edible and wildlife garden packed full with inspiration on new, easy ways to grow fruit and…