Past projects

The Tees Valley Wild Green Places Project was a five year project, led by the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and others. Our project partners are the five Tees Valley local authorities, Cleveland College of Art and Design, Askam Bryan College and ERIC (Environmental Records Information Centre- North…

This project will involve a series of free events from May 2017 – March 2018 to understand what attracts people over 50 in Middlesbrough to volunteer and what impact it has on loneliness and isolation. It is supported by Ageing Better Middlesbrough thanks to their Innovation Fund (for more information on the programme and how it…

So where exactly is Harrington’s Pond – a question we have been asked a lot quite recently, even people in Billingham didn’t know where it was! This small pond is situated behind Billingham Town Football Club and Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, Billingham Youth Council and a number of other groups have been giving it a…

  The Wildlife Trusts believe in a future Britain where nature is a normal part of childhood and where wildlife thrives across the landscape. Where our urban spaces are green jungles and our seas are bursting with life. Where seeing a hedgehog is an every day experience.            Here are our proposals for…

I need your help My home is under threat and there are fewer places to find food every day. And I’m not alone: thousands of birds, insects and other animals across England are finding it harder and harder to survive. Plants and trees are under pressure too. The Wildlife Trusts and friends have convinced Westminster Government of the need…

The East Cleveland landscape was shaped by a unique industrial process that went on here for over 250 years. This area was once the only place in the UK where Alum was produced. Alum is a chemical compound used to fix dyes, and in the preserving of leather and was pivotal in the growth of…

Tees Valley Wildlife Trust (TVWT) is one of four partners delivering the Our Bright Future ‘One Planet Pioneers’ project. Our Bright Future has over 30 organisations who are using £33 million funding from the National Lottery through the Community Fund to help young people step up and create what is rightfully theirs: a healthy planet,…

Middlesbrough Council, the Environment Agency and the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust have joined forces to launch the 3-year Boro Becks Project. Funding has been awarded by the Big Lottery as part of the Access to Nature grants programme administered by Natural England. The Boro Becks project is all about getting people involved in the becks…

The Cleveland Coast between South Gare and Cowbar forms and important landscape feature with its range of habitats from sand dunes to spectacular high cliffs. Its wildlife and geological significance is recognised by the designation of the entire coast as either Local Wildlife Sites or Sites of Special Scientific Interest. This summer, with funding from…

Tees Valley, Durham and Northumberland Wildlife Trusts are all working in partnership with the Environment Agency to deliver the Living Waterways project. Living Waterways aims to reduce Diffuse Pollution in urban areas. Tees Valley Wildlife Trust are doing this through educational work, community days and practical work such as creating ponds and scrapes to help…

Workshops and Volunteering for Well-being Life Skills is a three-year project funded by the Big Lottery’s Reaching Communities Fund. The project has delivered 11 programmes of nature-based activities, conservation volunteering, crafts and skills workshops between 2019 and 2022 for 150 people in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Stockton-on-Tees. The programmes consist of 12 sessions (once a week…

What is the National Lottery? The National Lottery – and with it National Lottery funding for good causes like heritage, arts, sport and charities – was established in 1994. Every ticket sold contributes funds to good causes across the UK. National Lottery funding through the Heritage Lottery Fund is one of The Wildlife Trusts most important…

When we use the term non native or alien species we refer to any species of plant or animal that was not present naturally within Britain following the sea level rise at the end of the last ice age. At this point Britain became isolated from mainland Europe. As a result, the majority of species…

Subscribe to our mailing list Tees Valley Wildlife Trust have appointed Richard Perks as the Growing Food for the Future Officer, this a fantastic opportunity for schools in the Tees Valley to get involved with what we are doing. If you already have a growing area or have even just a few pots for some…

The winners of the fifth North East Wildlife Photography Competition were announced recently at the awards ceremony at the Great North Museum and, as with previous years, the panel of judges were left truly amazed. The competition, which attracted over 1600 entries, is organised by Northumberland, Durham and Tees Valley Wildlife Trusts, the Natural History…

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…

Tees Valley Wildlife Trust River Tees Project The River Tees Rediscovered Landscape Partnership covers an area of 140km2 within the Tees Valley, focusing on the river corridor from the coast at Teesmouth to Piercebridge just outside Darlington. A stage two application for Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) support was successful in June 2014, unlocking £1.9m HLF funding…

We have had some fantastic results from this year’s bird boxes that were erected as part of the Wings of the Tees project. These boxes were erected and maintained, and birds ringed and monitored, by experienced and licensed British Trust for Ornithology and Teesmouth Bird Club volunteers. Out of 14 boxes erected, over half have…

This scheme has been created by the Environment Agency in collaboration with Connect Right and has been adopted by Tees Valley Wildlife Trust. The Yellow Fish Scheme is a fun and enjoyable way of raising awareness of the damage caused by pouring oil or other waste liquids down storm drains and highway gullies. This involves…

Tees Valley Wildlife Trust received £24,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, based in Hardwick Dene Nature Reserve in Stockton on Tees. The project involved young people exploring the wildlife in Hardwick Dene. The young students took part in a variety of environmental work and improvements to the nature reserve. As…

In March the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust along with Tees Valley Local Nature Partnership embarked on an ambitious project to carry out a catchment wide survey to assess the number of water vole (Arvicola amphibious) populations in the region. Many water courses and habitats have changed over the past few years due to flood mitigation, beck…