How to grow a wildlife- friendly vegetable garden
Learn about companion planting, friendly pest control, organic repellents and how wildlife and growing vegetables can go hand in hand.
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Somerset Wildlife Trust Celebrates 60th Anniversary
Somerset’s largest nature charity celebrates diamond anniversary with species count, photography competition, and one-time-only Gala Dinner
Somerset Wildlife Trust launches ambitious appeal for major wilding project
£100,000 appeal unveiled to support the transformation of former dairy farm to pioneering wilding site restoring nature and protecting peat soils on the Somerset Levels.
Our Projects
Somerset Wildlife Trust current and past projects.
Wildlife Trust announces new Corporate Membership scheme for wilder, greener, and more sustainable businesses
Somerset Wildlife Trust is excited to unveil a brand-new Corporate Membership Scheme aimed at providing businesses of all sizes, from sole traders to large companies, the opportunity to help…
Exmoor Wildlife Celebration
Join us for a fantastical celebration of our wonderful wildlife!
Wildlife
Somerset has some of the most spectacular and internationally-recognised habitats and wildlife in the country. We have beautiful and rare creatures like the Large Blue butterfly and the Eurasian bittern, important populations of Greater horseshoe bats and other incredible species such as Great white egrets, Red deer, Round-leaved sundew and magical murmurating Starlings.
At home with wildlife
From digging a wildlife pond to planting a bee-friendly window box, there’s always something that you can do to help the wildlife on your doorstep.
ShoreSearch: The Wildlife Trusts national citizen science project
Shoresearch is The Wildlife Trusts' national citizen science survey of the intertidal shore, the exciting world of extremes where the sea meets the land.
Enable Healthy Communities
More than one-third of the population - nearly 9.5 million households in England – are unable to access green places near their home.
Zing / Healthy Somerset
Encouraging communities to be more active and eat healthily.
Wildlife Gardening Awards
Somerset Wildlife Trust recognise we need to create a strong, interconnected network of wild spaces and healthy habitats that provide space for nature to thrive. Actively caring for and managing land of any size can contribute to a Nature Recovery Network – nature reserves, community spaces, farms, parks, churchyards, schools, residential gardens, a residential postcode area or a town district – every green space has a part to play.