Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire 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! 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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.