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A Welcome to Wildlife BBOWT in numbers Getting to know us 2,644 We’re thrilled you’ve decided to join BBOWT! Here are a few The number of hectares things you might like to know about us and your membership. we manage, across more than 85 nature reserves Hello How do I get in touch to make a How do I book onto an event? You can change to my membership book onto one of our events by We care for details – for example, my contacting the Membership Team from BBOWT subscription amount or or by signing up online under address? Your the specific event page. Hello, and a warm welcome 10 % You can easily update from all of us at BBOWT! As a questions of the UK’s remaining your contact details, the answered What is Gift Aid and how does floodplain meadows new member you are making amount you donate and BBOWT benefit from it? Gift a valuable contribution anything else to do with Aid is a tax relief that enables UK towards protecting our local wildlife. your membership, including charities to reclaim an extra 25% in tax It’s your support that makes us tick. how to add children to a Family on every eligible donation made by a UK As nature’s local champions we work Watch membership, by getting in taxpayer. This means BBOWT can claim 25p hard to create safe havens for the precious touch with our Membership Team (see for every £1 donated at no extra cost to you. We have more than wildlife we love, from riverside otters contact details below). If you would like to know more or change

RIC MELLIS RIC to swooping barn owls. We’re helping your Gift Aid status please get in touch with other landowners do the same, too, so How can I find out what events are the Membership Team. 50,000 we can all make progress towards a wider countryside that’s being held near me? Look inside individual members richer in wildlife. your Welcome Pack for your What’s On Who can I talk to about a specific wildlife My journey with BBOWT began more than 20 years ago as Diary which has information on all our issue? BBOWT has a Wildlife Information a volunteer stock watcher at Aston Clinton Ragpits, a nature forthcoming fantastic wildlife-themed Service (WIS) with dedicated points reserve that together with nearby Dancersend with Pavis events. You can also search by county, of contact for each county. If you have 1,800 Woods I continue to visit whenever I get the chance. I’ve come audience and keyword using the any queries about wildlife please email volunteers to love these special places and have learned so much through Events page of our website at [email protected] or call 01865 775476. support our work them, not least how to encourage wildlife into my own garden. www.bbowt.org.uk/events As a long-time member, volunteer and now Chair of BBOWT, I can proudly say BBOWT is in great shape and I’m genuinely excited for the future. I hope you are proud too, because your support is what gives us the resources and authority to achieve Taking in the 10,000 all of what we do. autumnal splendour The number of of Bowdown Woods. Thank you for making such a positive commitment to being schoolchildren that part of nature’s recovery. You are making the difference we visited our education need to ensure our local wildlife thrives once again. centres, last year

Barbara Muston Each year we review Chair of BBOWT 15,000+ planning applications

Meet the team – A few of the many dedicated wildlife How to get in touch enthusiasts who help to make BBOWT a success. You can get in touch with us at Don’t forget! [email protected] As a new member to BBOWT you are or by calling 01865 788300 in a unique position to offer insights during office hours. and ideas that can help us improve Write to: Membership, your membership experience. BBOWT, 1 Armstrong Road, Oxford OX4 4XT. Please let us know your thoughts by completing and returning the survey that was included in your Welcome Adriana Alberts Martyn Lane Lynn Hughes Charlotte Karmali Pack and/or email (if you gave Membership Team Senior Reserves Manager Environmental Volunteer Warden at Join us on social media One of the helpful and Leads conservation work Education Manager Finemere Wood us your email address). friendly Membership on our Oxfordshire Inspires children to love Organises work parties of Team at BBOWT HQ. nature reserves. local wildlife. enthusiastic volunteers. ROB APPLEBY. OPPOSITE PAGE: KATE TITFORD. COVER IMAGE: KARL REDSHAW PHOTOGRAPHY/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM KARL REDSHAW IMAGE: COVER TITFORD. KATE PAGE: OPPOSITE APPLEBY. ROB

2 BBOWT A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE BBOWT 3 and our What’s On guide to events three times a year (at the end of March, Great deals for you and wildlife July and November). They are a great Take advantage of these opportunities to help local wildlife Getting to way to catch up on all the latest news while you shop and enjoy a few discounts just for you too. and to plan ahead from our packed programme of wildlife events and Food for birds and a Go green and know you activities. We also offer a digital version boost for BBOWT help BBOWT too of Wildlife News, which you can sign We like to keep in touch, so Get your bird food from Sign up for green electricity or gas from up to on our website at www.bbowt. Vine House Farm and help renewable energy company Ecotricity you can get the most from your org.uk/publications. What’s On is also BBOWT at the same time. and you’ll benefit BBOWT as well as the membership and take part in online at www.bbowt.org.uk/events Vine House Farm is no environment! Switch to Ecotricity and fantastic wildlife-themed We may also get in touch a couple of ordinary bird food supplier as they test they will donate up to £60 to us – events we put on every year times a year to let you know about other all their food on the wild birds at their and it’s as easy as that. Sign up at opportunities to support BBOWT. These farm. The Watts family, who run the www.ecotricity.co.uk/for-your-home/ may include appeals to purchase a piece s the only charity dedicated Lincolnshire Fens farm are dedicated quote-and-switch?partner=BBOWT of land that will benefit local wildlife. to managing their land in a wildlife- uniquely to the wildlife of If you haven’t yet signed up for our Berkshire, Buckinghamshire friendly way. As much bird food as Insurance that pays regular email newsletter, then please do possible is grown in the local area and and Oxfordshire, our roots so on our website or contact us to sign out for wildlife Aare local. In fact, BBOWT is all about packaged on-site. What’s more, 4% of NFU Mutual donates £10 PHILIP SHAW-HAMILTON PHILIP up. every purchase made by a customer to us each time a BBOWT local people coming together to make If you wish to change anything about and wild places near you. living in our area is donated to BBOWT. supporter takes out a new a difference for local wildlife. It’s good events. Enjoy a fascinating guided tour the way we contact you, whether the Look out for your personal email Order online at www.vinehousefarm. general insurance policy through them. news for nature and everyone is better of a nature reserve, led by an expert means or the content, then please use invitation over the next few weeks or look co.uk or phone 01775 630208. NFU Mutual has been part of the rural off when they’re a bit wild. wildlife officer or one of our incredibly the sheet enclosed with your Welcome in your Welcome Pack for the next three community since 1910 and prides itself The lifeblood of BBOWT is its knowledgeable volunteers. Pack or get in touch with us. members, which is why we want New member events are a great way events. We look forward to meeting you. 15% discount at on providing a personal and friendly you to be as happy and informed as to learn about local conservation and Cotswold Outdoor service. For more information, please possible, so that you too can discover the wildlife that thrives in Stay in touch How to get in touch We are delighted to contact NFU Mutual Oxford Agency at the incredible wildlife that’s right on our area, while of course Our regular communications You can get in touch with us at offer you 15% off at Cotswold Outdoor. www.nfumutual.co.uk/oxford. Please your doorstep. meeting other likeminded help to keep you up-to-date with [email protected] They offer an extensive range of outdoor state ‘BBOWT’ when enquiring. members. These special everything that’s going on or by calling 01865 788300 clothing equipment and accessories, Let’s get together! days are our way of saying at BBOWT. during office hours. both in store and online. Please BBOWT invites every new member to ‘thank you’ – for making a We’ll send you a copy of Write to: Membership, BBOWT, 1 see the information included in your join one of our regular new member positive change for wildlife Wildlife News magazine Armstrong Road, Oxford OX4 4XT. Welcome Pack.

PAUL MARTIN Save 10% on NatureBureau Journey Chinnor Hill, Oxfordshire. books Top left: Members enjoy NatureBureau uses their expert of discovery a guided walk around Two members share their Warburg Nature Reserve. knowledge in biodiversity and experiences of a recent conservation to publish ecology and new members event natural history books under their and what becoming a imprint, Pisces Publications. Save member means 10% on NatureBureau’s books and they’ll give BBOWT a further 20%! to them. NatureBureau donates 25% of the profits on any of their books to BBOWT when you order online. For full details

on how to order please visit www. NIGEL KITELEY I’m very grateful that my membership was bbowt.org.uk/shop-wildlife bought for me as a gift. It’s given me an incentive to explore my local wildlife and learn about the work BBOWT does on a daily basis. DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY BBOWT takes processing your membership to getting fundraising-promise Although I’m not a nature expert I have always loved wildlife. the privacy, in touch. In your Welcome Pack you will find The guided walk was very interesting and reminded me of security and We are committed to fundraising a sheet that gives you the opportunity the wildlife I grew up with. It’s been a great opportunity to wishes of its members very seriously. We and communicating in an honest and to change the ways we communicate get out and learn more about the wildlife that surrounds me. adhere to all legislation and regulations transparent way and are registered with you, or what we communicate governing charities and fundraising. with the Fundraising Regulator and about to you. Please let us know of any Please read our Privacy Policy (available adhere to their Code of Fundraising changes you wish to make using this or on our website at www.bbowt.org. Practice. For more information please by getting in touch with us by email or uk/privacypolicy or by request). This see our Fundraising Promise on our phone. details in full how we use your data; from website at www.bbowt.org.uk/ 4 BBOWT A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE BBOWT 5 Fragrant orchids and horseshoe vetch

Earthly Make a space paradise for wildlife Don’t forget your closest nature reserve: GAVIN BENNETT The spectacular chalk your garden! Whatever its size, making grassland wild flowers a difference for wildlife is easy of Yoesden support an extraordinary diversity of butterflies. Your membership will continue to protect this special place, says Buckinghamshire Nature Reserves Manager Mark Vallance

n a sunny day there is no Tranquil haven their forewings together to attract a better place to be than a Yoesden was saved when it came up mate. You’re sure to catch a red kite wildflower meadow. With for sale in 2015 thanks to our generous circling overhead, while the fragrance just the low thrum of insects members and other supporters. Now of wild thyme and marjoram permeates LEWIS AMY Ofor company, these precious habitats one of our finest nature reserves, this the air. are the antidote to our hectic lives. steep slope is home to butterflies as With the long-term future of Yoesden ardens cover a greater area nectar. Many cottage garden favourites Yoesden is one of these special varied as grizzled and dingy skippers, secured, this patch of earthly paradise than all the land protected are ideal. places, a remnant of chalk grassland green hairstreaks and the three blues: will be around for generations to come. for nature, so helping wildlife Consider converting an area of inaccessible to the plough and small blue, chalkhill blue and Adonis Come and see for yourself and bask in really does begin at home. your lawn into a miniature wildflower untouched by modern fertilisers. Sheep the glow of a pristine chalk grassland at GGardening for wildlife doesn’t mean meadow – start afresh from seed or blue. The vivid Adonis blue is the key have grazed here for centuries and species here and Yoesden is its most its very finest. letting your garden grow unkempt. together with the thin soil, this has northerly site. Your garden can Ponds are MARSHALL TOM helped control fast-growing grasses, Chalk grasslands contain up to 40 Long-term care Greener backdrop become a magnet a haven for ensuring an extraordinary tapestry of Start with plants. Berry-producing trees wildlife plant species per square metre. The Scrub removal BBOWT is for local wildlife. wild flowers that make Yoesden a haven show starts in spring when the slope and shrubs such as dogwood, berberis for butterflies. protecting this magical place by and pyracantha provide food for birds, plant plugs of flowers like cowslip, is brought to life by clumps of pale selectively removing scrub to yellow cowslips. Soon after the patches especially in winter. Climbing plants oxeye daisy and meadow crane’s-bill. Fill your pond with rainwater and maintain the mosaic of scrub and like honeysuckle have nectar-rich Tight on space? Then plant pots with suitable pond plants then watch and of hawthorn scrub glow their brilliant grassland. Many species rely on scrub white. flowers for bees, followed by berries, butterfly-friendly blooms such as wait. Frogs, toads and insects such as for food and shelter, so this needs to while evergreens including ivy offer lavender or marjoram. dragonflies will be joined by passing birds The floral climax arrives in June when be done in a balanced way. pink and purple orchids, including year-round shelter. Replace fences with and mammals using your pond as the fragrant, pyramidal and common Grazing We also continue to graze hedges to create more nesting sites Pond life local watering hole. spotted, contrast with yellow kidney the meadow to keep rambunctious and so hedgehogs can move freely Ponds draw in more wildlife than any vetch and bird’s-foot trefoil to create grasses under control, working with between gardens to forage. other garden feature. If you don’t fancy Right at home a riot of colour. Listen closely and you a local farmer who brings cattle on Butterflies and bees love nectar-rich a complicated freeform pond use any A pile of logs in a shady corner or may catch the repetitive ‘song’ of male site once the wild flowers have set flowers like verbena and scabious. number of preformed alternatives or standing dead wood will feed beetle great green bush-crickets as they rub seed. Opt for plants with simple flowers that create a mini pond from an old washing larvae, help rare stag beetles to breed make it easy for butterflies to get at the up bowl or bucket. and shelter the likes of toads and slow- worms. Spiders and solitary bees seek An extraordinary tapestry of wild out nooks and crannies, while hollow flowers make Yoesden one of the best Attract more wildlife stems left over winter give shelter to sites in the Chilterns for butterflies. insect larvae and pupae. Adonis blue butterfly Flower power Sow a dazzling display COLIN WILLIAMS COLIN of traditional cornfield annuals like Put up bird boxes. Many gardens are cornflower, corn marigold and poppies. also suitable for specialist dwellings

JOHN MORRIS such as bat boxes or swift boxes, also Rotten luck Compost heaps provide a available as ‘bricks’ to replace standard natural supply of nutrients – and a home bricks. for insects and spiders! Don’t forget those everyday wildlife gestures either: feeding birds and Bug bonanza Make a bug hotel. topping up bird baths, for example. Hollow stems and drilled holes provide Yoesden is a Over time your garden can become a precious fragment hidey holes for solitary bees and other magnet for local wildlife. of chalk grassland bugs. Feathered nest Bird boxes offer zz For full visiting information for Yoesden and all our other nature reserves please visit bbowt.org.uk/reserves instant accommodation. Locate them in a For more wildlife gardening tips visit BEN VANHEEMS BEN quiet area, out of direct sunlight and wind. bbowt.org.uk/actions

6 BBOWT A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE BBOWT 7 Birdwatchers Chimney Meadows (Oxon) A tranquil corner of the Upper Thames Best nature BLOOR RICHARD converted from a commercial farm to a rich mosaic of wildflower meadows. Its nationally-important wetlands are home to wading birds like curlew,

reserves for… WALLINGTON ADRIAN Looking for ideas but unsure where to begin? while feeding cormorant, little egret Here’s some inspiration to get out there and and kingfishers are often discover the best of our local wildlife glimpsed. Inkpen Crocus Field Thatcham Reedbeds Chimney Meadows. Left: Look out for bitterns at Thatcham Reedbeds. (Berks)

Wild flowers There aren’t many TIPLING DAVID Inkpen Crocus Field (Berks) places you can still College Lake (Bucks) From late February to early April this hear the call of the This former chalk quarry is now Walkers field is awash with more than 400,000 cuckoo or the rich one of the best places for water birds. Dancersend with purple and white blooms, Britain’s song of the nightingale, Take your pick of the many hides that Pavis Woods (Bucks) biggest display of wild crocuses, but these reedbeds offer a overlook the lake then settle down for Lose yourself in believed to be the result of bulbs good chance. The reeds are home to the show: waders including lapwing and this tranquil haven brought back from the Mediterranean water rail, reed bunting and warblers redshank, common terns nesting on nestled within two by Knights Templars in the 12th century. like the Cetti’s warbler. Look out for the islands or in winter, wildfowl such as sheltered Chiltern valleys. RIC MELLIS bitterns too. wigeon and teal. The extraordinary tapestry of Bernwood Meadows (Bucks) woodland and meadows has been These traditional hay meadows, Remote wilderness a nature reserve since the 1940s. a remnant of medieval ridge and The recent addition of wonderful furrow meadow, offer a riot of colour Foxholes (Oxon) beechwoods means there’s now even from April to July. More than 100 Revel in this cool deep wood filled more to discover. with birdsong, bluebells and flashes plant species thrive here, from lady’s Above right: Orchids at Dancersend. bedstraw with its clusters of tiny yellow of butterflies flitting among the trees. flowers to rare green-winged orchids. Because Foxholes is ancient woodland Greenham and Crookham it is a haven for bats. Seven species have Commons (Berks) Iffley Meadows (Oxford) been recorded here, many of them Explore the wide tracks through Every spring thousands of delicate using old woodpecker holes in trees as Berkshire’s largest tract of heathland. purple, pink and white chequered their roosts. Once an airbase, the roar of US Air snake’s-head fritillary flowers nod Force planes has been replaced by gracefully in the breeze. This exotic- Moor Copse (Berks) Five-spot Burnet moth the songs of the rare birds, including looking flower is the emblem of The River Pang meanders through nightjars, woodlarks and Dartford RIC MELLIS Oxfordshire, symbolising its relationship the woodland, where in spring bluebells warblers that thrive among the with the Thames. Why not bring a picnic carpet the ground with stunning effect. Then in summer the restored heather and gorse. and watch the river lazily flow by? floodplain meadows teem with wild flowers from which seed has been harvested to restore other nearby meadows.

a network of family-friendly footpaths warden for current highlights. With Yoesden (Bucks) Families to explore. Wear the little ones out in a visitor centre, picnic area, bird hides Red kites and buzzards wheel overhead, the thrum of Nature Discovery Centre (Berks) the Adventure Playground, feed the and interactive Nature Detectives Trail crickets fills the air, chalk fragrant-orchids flower The stunning lakeside visitor centre is waterfowl then relax in the Lakeside to try, there’s lots for young and old and clouds of gatekeeper butterflies full of interactive wildlife and natural Café. alike. spring up from wild marjoram – this history displays, while outside there’s Finemere Wood (Bucks) is Yoesden, a pristine slope

LAURA PARKER LAURA Warburg Nature Reserve (Oxon) Birds, butterflies, bats untouched by modern Warburg is one of BBOWT’s flagship and more than 200 ploughing or intensive Greenham and Crookham Commons.

nature reserves, a magnificent place species of wild grazing. APPLEBY ROB alive with wildlife – ask the resident flowers bring this wild old woodland Hartslock (Oxon) JOHN MORRIS TIM READ TIM to life. Listen Let your spirit soar at this jewel on Listen out for out for warblers, the edge of the Chilterns. Admire warblers, song song thrushes and views across to the Thames while you thrushes and bullfinches bullfinches as you watch swallows skim the pasture or as you follow the family- follow the family-friendly red kites circle overhead. In summer Wildlife Walk. Finemere is a great For visiting information such as how to get there, please consult Hartslock reveals its real treasure friendly Wildlife Walk. introduction to wildlife spotting. Your Wild Guide nature reserve handbook. You can also find all the – a visual orchestra of orchids and Finemere Wood details you need at www.bbowt.org.uk/nature-reserves butterflies. Nature Discovery Centre Above: Purple emperor at Finemere Wood.

8 BBOWT A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE BBOWT 9 Wild young things! An early fascination with nature will last a lifetime. Making the most of your family membership is the perfect way to ignite that passion Ratty’s nstil a love of nature from an early age to create tomorrow’s wildlife guardians. Your family membership is a convenient, not to mention fun, way of starting their lifelong interest – and they can look forward to revival Ireceiving all sorts of wildlife-themed goodies too! The water vole may be 4 issues a year of Wildlife Watch, full of fun facts, things to Britain’s fastest declining do, wallcharts and more The Wildlife Watcher’s Handbook – a mammal but the local pocket-sized guide to being a ‘Wildlife Watcher’ Membership picture is very different card, badge, poster and stickers Fun family events – thanks to BBOWT’s Water everything from craft workshops to pond dipping. JIL ORPEN JIL Vole Recovery Project, as Mammal Project Officer Julia wildlife, with hands-on activities Get out there! and awe-inspiring talks and Lofthouse reveals Throughout the year and whatever demonstrations to get the youngsters the weather, BBOWT puts on many

in your lives genuinely enthralled by ELAINE TUFFERY exciting family focussed activities. the nature all around us. They are a great introduction to Pond dipping, bug hunting, bird watching, den building or perhaps a magical wildlife-themed story time – there’s lots going on for all age groups and interests. Discover how BBOWT works fascinating nature can be and how What do hard to create the you too can help local wildlife. Look you think? right conditions inside your What’s On guide for all the We’d love to know your ater voles, a favourite character they are. The project has a team of 50 for water voles latest events to bring out your family’s first impressions of becoming in the children’s classic The trained volunteer surveyors who give up wild side! a family member. Let us Wind in the Willows, always their time to scour their allocated sites for zz Discover more and sign up to know what you think! Please complete the survey in look as if they’re on important water vole burrows, droppings, feeding our Family Fun e-newsletter at Wbusiness. If you are lucky enough to signs and footprints. your Welcome Pack or bbowt.org.uk/family-days-out glimpse one chances are it will be We work with landowners to create Water vole welcome email. scrambling into the water, scuttling away favourable conditions for water voles with TUFFERY ELAINE into the undergrowth or darting headlong opportunities taken to enhance sites. This field signs into a burrow. zz Riverbank burrows, While once a common sight, water voles We work with often with a nibbled have declined by more than 90% since landowners to create ‘lawn’ by the entrance. A voice for nature the 1970s. Changes in farming practices favourable conditions. z Wildlife can’t speak, which is why we campaign tirelessly on its behalf and land use have seen losses of the lush z ‘Latrines’ of rounded, waterside vegetation that water voles rely might include fencing off a watercourse or Tic Tac-sized droppings. High Speed 2: The High Speed contributed to research demonstrating Oxford-Cambridge Growth on for food and cover. The sharp decline reducing trees and scrub to allow grasses, zz Piles of nibbled 2 (HS2) railway line will cut through how vaccination is more effective Corridor: The Government’s coincides with the spread of their most reeds and herbs to flourish. We also work vegetation with the ends our region. BBOWT campaigned in halting the spread of bovine TB. plans for development within this voracious predator, the American mink. to monitor and control mink cut at a 45 degree angle. throughout the approval process BBOWT vaccinates badgers in some of Corridor include doubling rates by providing advice and for changes to reduce its impact on our west Oxfordshire nature reserves and of housebuilding and delivering a Local recovery special mink monitoring rafts wildlife; our evidence helped to secure areas of West Berkshire considered high new Oxford-Cambridge Expressway. It’s not all bad news for our industrious to land managers. Nibbled water new barn owl and bat habitats along risk for infection. vole ‘lawn’ BBOWT will campaign for nature to water voles though. BBOWT’s Water Vole By helping the remaining the route. be central to these plans to ensure the Recovery Project was set up in 1998 to colonies to flourish and spread Development: Increasing best possible outcome for wildlife. conserve local water vole populations they may eventually link up Badgers and Bovine TB: We development pressures mean we have with some very encouraging results. By to create larger and, crucially, oppose the badger cull and have to ensure wildlife is fully considered 2018 the total area of water vole activity more robust populations that within the planning system. BBOWT in our three counties reached 233 square are more sustainable in the responds to strategic planning miles, a remarkable increase of 78% over long term. In time we hope consultations, comments on selected just the last 10 years and one that validates that the distinctive ‘plop’ of planning applications that pose a risk to our approach. a water vole diving into the wildlife, and provides advice to planners, So how have we done it? To conserve water will be a common developers and consultants.

TERRY WHITTAKER, 2020VISION WHITTAKER, TERRY water voles we first need to know where sound once more. zz For more on our current campaigns please visit bbowt.org.uk/nature-matters zz Find out more about the Project and where to see water voles at bbowt.org.uk/water-vole-recovery-project

10 BBOWT A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE A WELCOME TO WILDLIFE BBOWT 11 Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Fancy getting even more involved? Here are some other ways to help us and your local wildlife

Become a volunteer! Volunteering with BBOWT is the perfect way to help local wildlife, have fun and possibly get fit too, learn new skills and meet other volunteers at social events. If you have a particular role in mind, please email [email protected] and tell us what you would like to do. Or if you would like to discuss further, call our head office on 01865 775476 and ask to speak to our Volunteer Coordinator. To find out more about the ways in which you can

TRISTAN BALINE TRISTAN volunteer visit: bbowt.org.uk/volunteer

Leave a gift in your Will Gifts in Wills are especially valuable to BBOWT and the wildlife we care for. They I love the flexibility can help us to seize opportunities to acquire new reserves, often providing the of volunteering with crucial cash deposit needed to secure a piece of land. They also enable us to look ahead with confidence when planning our long-term conservation work. BBOWT. I’ve been If you would like more information on leaving a gift in your Will to BBOWT, doing things I never please visit bbowt.org.uk/legacy. Or request a hardcopy of the BBOWT Guide to Making a Will booklet by emailing us at [email protected] or thought I’d do. calling 01865 788300.

Invest in wildlife Recycle for BBOWT Fundraise for wildlife Demonstrate your company’s Make money for BBOWT and get rid of Whether you fancy organising a commitment to wildlife your old inkjet cartridges! We receive bake sale, taking on a Tough Mudder by becoming an Investor £1 for every cartridge recycled with or even doing a marathon, you can in Wildlife. Contact our us through Recycle 4 Charity. See the help raise essential funds and make Corporate Partners team at envelope included in your Welcome a real difference for local wildlife. [email protected] Pack. Order more envelopes at Visit bbowt.org.uk/wildpack to to learn more. recycle4charity.co.uk/register/C55659 download our fundraising guide. or call us on 01865 788300. ANDY FAIRBAIRN

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