In Your Community
As your Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, there are many projects in your community. Find out about My Wild City, our Kingfisher Trail and more.
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Volunteer
From practical conservation to visitor engagement, we have a host of volunteering opportunities available across our region.
Why I'm a volunteer
Lunt Meadows volunteer, Phil, tells us all about what inspires him to volunteer with Lancashire Wildlife Trust.
News
Keep up-to-date on all the news from Lancashire Wildlife Trust, including visits, campaigns, latest sightings and so much more.
The power and importance of community...and nature!
We talk to some participants of our weekly wellbeing groups to find out what 'community' means to them, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week.
Scutchers Acres community orchard supports local foodbanks
Scutchers Acres is a mixture of woodland, grassland and an amazing community orchard in Burscough, West Lancashire – and not only is it supporting nature but the orchard bounty is supporting the…
MHAW 2025: Rebecca's Cycling Community
Rebecca is our Lancashire Wildlife Trust cycling champion, convincing everyone she meets in the Trust to give cycling a go!
Here she shares how cycling created a community for her when she…
The Greenhouse Project - A volunteer perspective
My name is Oliver Hill. I have been working alongside the Lancashire Wildlife Trust for half a year. The reason I am writing this blog is to show the work that I have done with the Trust and the…
Inspiration and celebration at our 2018 Volunteer Conference
From willow weaving workshops to inspiring talks about conquering the plastic crisis, our 2018 Volunteer Conference was a huge success.
Local community plants British flowers to boost wildlife
Hundreds of native wild flowers have been planted by Manchester's local community to tackle loss of city wildlife and increase access to nature.
How the community helped create a new National Nature Reserve
In 2025, the Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve was declared as part of the King’s Series. Find out how community members helped to make this happen.
Precious peatland saved from housing development threat
A statement from Lancashire Wildlife Trust
We are delighted that a controversial plan to build over 800 houses on an area of precious lowland peatland in Greater Manchester have been…