Projects

Heart of Durham Task Day scrub management at Pow Hill Heath

Durham Wildlife Trust works collaboratively with organisations across its patch to deliver projects carefully designed to protect and enhance the region's wild spaces and connect people with nature. This work is carried out thanks to the generous support of funders. Find out more about ongoing and previous projects below.

Ongoing projects

grasslands with beach and sea in distance

Durham Heritage Coast Partnership

Durham Wildlife Trust is a partner in the Heritage Coast Partnership, which brings together a group or organisations, working together…

Small copse of trees with people standing underneath

Links with Nature

Durham Wildlife Trust has secured £149,462 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and £20,000 match funding from Sunderland Council,…

Chantelle Lindsay and Bobbi Benjamin-Ward are sat at a picnic table building bird boxes. Cel Spellman is standing next to them also building a bird box.

Nextdoor Nature

The Nextdoor Nature initiative will give Durham Wildlife Trust the opportunity to leave a natural legacy from jubilee celebrations,…

Stronger Shores

The Stronger Shores project represents a truly innovative approach working collaboratively with leading academics and Wildlife Trusts…

Heart of Durham

A partnership project with Northumbrian Water to restore habitat for wildlife on a landscape scale from Derwent Reservoir to Hamsterley…

North East Community Forest

Durham Wildlife Trust is delighted to be working with the North East Community Forest partnership in 2022; supporting delivery of their…

Living Uplands

The Living Uplands project was founded to focus attention on the sixth most endangered bird in the UK, the Black Grouse.

Bluespaces

Bluespaces is a Northumbrian Water Ltd scheme for delivering water environment improvements. Durham Wildlife Trust manages the…

Previous projects

Discover Brightwater

A landscape partnership surrounding the River Skerne, working to reveal and celebrate its rich heritage.

Healing Nature

Healing Nature was a Green Recovery Challenge Fund project, funded by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA),…

Natural Communities

Thanks to funding from three Durham County Council AAPs: Weardale, Teesdale and mid-Durham, the Trust will be supporting more people to…

The Land of Oak & Iron

500 years of authentic heritage, history, heroes and habitats.

Seascapes

SeaScapes Partnership is a marine landscape partnership scheme set to benefit our coastal heritage, the marine environment and local…

Gateshead Green Connections

Gateshead Green Connections was a Durham Wildlife Trust project that engaged local communities across Gateshead, involving them in…

Revealing Reptiles

A project to establish verified records of reptiles across the vice county 66 region which includes County Durham, Gateshead and…

Naturally Native

Naturally Native is a project that will save the water vole, one of Britain’s most charismatic mammals, from extinction in the North…

Cuthbert’s Moor Managing Moors

The Cuthbert’s Moor, Managing Moors project, is a project focused on developing the restoration of Durham Wildlife Trust's Cuthbert…

Projects