Team Wilder Resources

Here's some handy resources to get your started on your Team Wilder journey!

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Empowerment Pack

Wilder Community Action

Starting a community action group is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming! This pack is a basic guide to setting up and running an action group for nature. It’s a checklist to getting started, and a toolkit to keep you on track. You’ll find further links throughout for more detailed resources.

Download your Wilder Community Action Pack

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Somerset Wildlife Trust

Advice sheets

Our advice sheets will give you more information on specific actions you can take, on everything from planting trees to commenting on planning applications.

Planning a tree planting project

How to speak up for nature

How to comment on planning applications

Hedgerows in Somerset

Engaging with neighbourhood plans

Individual action

Looking for inspiration to take action every day in your garden or home? By taking action for nature, no matter how small, you can make an impact and invite more wildlife back into our lives.

Take action

Wilder Communities Resources

Whether you are part of an existing community group or want to start one of your own to make a difference for nature on your patch, let us help you make things happen. Here are some resources to get you started.

Find below our brand guidelines for Team Wilder along with poster templates to download for use with Team Wilder events.

Please note: If you are raising money for Somerset Wildlife Trust - please visit our fundraising pages and sign up to receive your fundraising pack and resources.

Land Management Resources

Nature Recovery Networks are linked corridors of environmentally rich habitat that allow plants and animals to thrive, spread and adapt to change. If you manage a community space or large area of land for wildlife, you can make a contribution to a nature recovery network.

It’s important to do your research and get the right advice, but there is so much information available online it can be overwhelming and not always clear which advice to follow. The links below are reliable resources that we would recommend to get you started:

If you need further advice on managing your community space for nature, we ask that you submit an enquiry form through our website so we can best advise you. We aim to respond to all enquiries within 2 weeks of submission.

Submit a land management enquiry

Land management resource

Manage your hedgerow

"Hedgerows in Somerset" is an introductory guide to management, surveying and law with links to further resources and guidance

Land management resource

Manage your meadow

Here is some comprehensive guidance for surveying, creating and managing meadows from the Magnificent Meadows project.

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Land management resource

Manage your woodland for wildlife

Use the myForest interactive toolkit to help you create a management plan and identify wildlife priorities.

Land management resource

Manage your orchard

A step-by-step guide to caring for your orchard from the People's Trust for Endangered Species

Land management resource

Managing scrub for wildlife

A brief overview of managing scrub for wildlife benefits from our colleagues at Kent Wildlife Trust

Land management resource

Conservation grazing

A brief guide to choosing livestock for conservation grazing from our colleagues at Kent Wildlife Trust

Land management resource

Managing field margins for wildlife

A brief guide with some general recommendations on the management of margins for wildlife from our colleagues at Kent Wildlife Trust

Land management resource

Managing road verges for wildlife

An introduction and downloadable guide to managing verges for wildlife developed by Wildlife Trusts, Plantlife and Butterfly Conservation

Land Management resource

Managing School Grounds for Wildlife

Wildlife in School grounds information pack.

Discover more with SWTtv

You can watch and learn with our library of video resources.

Explore all our webinars on SWTtv

Webinar

Grassland creation, restoration and management course

An introductory session covering some of the basic principles to consider when managing grasslands to promote species diversity in Somerset.

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Webinar

Pond creation, restoration and management course

Learn how to create or restore a pond to maximise its value for wildlife with this handy training session.

Webinar

Recording species using iNaturalist

Explore our webinars on how to use iNaturalist and an introduction to community wildlife mapping.

Wilder Churches resources

Here are some resources for church leaders and communities to help support biodiversity and wildlife in your local churchyards. For more general information about the Wilder Churches initiative go here.

Find below our Wilder Churches poster templates to download for your use.

Wilder Churches downloadable poster templates

Identifying species in your churchyard

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Wilder Churches webinar

Wilder Churches training sessions

Watch the whole series of Wilder Churches online training sessions. Step-by-step guidance to help you encourage wildlife in your churchyard.

Wilder Churches resource

Management plans

Read example management plans from churches creating wilder spaces.

Wilder Churches resource

Inspiring places

Communities that have worked together to improve their local churchyard for wildlife. Take a look for information and inspiration!

Join the network

Join our Facebook Group

Find a local community action group

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