Image: Ben Porter
Wilder 2025 - Together for Nature
A day of celebration and sharing for people in Somerset who want to create a wilder future together.
Thank you for joining us!
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at Wilder Together 2025 at the Red Brick Building in Glastonbury and a particularly big thank you to everyone who contributed by sharing talks, displays, leading workshops and activities.
We hope to see you at next year's event which will take place Saturday 10 October, Taunton. Register your interest in attending next year at the bottom of this page, we'll email you when bookings open.
This years event was made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.
All images are credited to Jon Barrett
"It's great to break out of our silos and hear the good news from around the area and give us that positivity injection to keep pushing forward"
Our Speakers
Thank you to all the speakers from nine diverse, countywide projects who shared their experiences, challenges and inspirational stories of taking action for nature. Take a look at their slides below.
Our speakers this year were:
Sally from Drayton Wildlife Group
Fiona and Beth from Wilder Enmore and Goathurst
Elizabeth from Ponds Alive!
Alyson and George from Ansford Academy
Fred from Recorders of the Avalon Marshes
Gill from Long Sutton Environment Group
Jon from the Quantocks Landscape Partnership
Buffy from Westbury Tree Nursery
Ellie from Seed of Hope
"Extremely informative, immensely encouraging to hear about all the projects and to meet so many like minded people."
Our Creative Practitioners
We were privileged to be joined on the day by creative practitioners who used their skills to highlight the learning, inspirations and connections in the room in a new way.
Beth Calverley is a poet, performer, creative guide, and founder of The Poetry Machine. Beth weaved words into typewritten poems for attendees to take away with them, and also summed up our day with a creative piece - coming soon!
Father and son, Andy and Reuben from Drawn Out Meetings kept everyone engaged with live illustrations of all our speakers. Live illustration is a dynamic tool that captures the essence of your event in real-time, providing a visual summary that enhances understanding and recall.
"I came last year and was so inspired. I wondered if the same would happen today. It did!"
Learning Together
We asked you... what advice or inspiration would you give to someone looking to take action for nature? Tell us about your projects, what got you started? What keeps you going?
Staying connected
Together we can achieve so much more, we all have different skills, experience, knowledge and inspiration to share. There are lots of networks in Somerset which aim to bring together different environmental groups to focus efforts and learn from each other.