Wilder Resources

Meadows

Herefordshire Meadows are a local group working to support and develop wildflower meadows across Herefordshire: https://www.herefordshiremeadows.org.uk/

Ponds

For local experts on amphibians and reptiles: http://herefordhart.org.uk/.

The freshwater habitats trust have information on pond creation and management: https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/projects/million-ponds/pond-creation-toolkit/

Woodland

The local network of tree wardens monitor and help protect trees throughout the county and can be found here: https://htreewardens.org.uk/.

The Woodland Trust have a number of reserves in Herefordshire and their website has lots of advice on tree planting and woodland management: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/

Local verges and wildflower areas

The Bumblebee conservation Trust have produced a useful document on how to work with your local authority to improve the area for bumblebees and other pollinators: https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/images/uploads/Local_authorities_pack_full.pdf

Community Gardens

Social Farms & Gardens have a range of resources covering everything from insurance to selling produce, from keeping livestock to working with young people: https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/resources

Wildlife recording

Recording your wildlife sightings can help with everything from habitat management to planning applications. The more we know about the species in different areas the more we can help them to thrive. There are plenty of ways to record your sightings, and plenty of species specific projects around the UK. We have listed a few below:

irecord, a national database for recording sightings - https://irecord.org.uk/home

Hedgehog street, maps hedgehogs across the UK and enables you to team up with neighbours to create hedgehog highways - https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/about-our-hedgehog-street-campaign/

Discovering reptiles, run by Froglife the Dragonfinder app helps you to identify and record reptile sightings - https://www.froglife.org/what-we-do/education/discovering-reptiles/

Herefordshire Wildlife Trust is not responsible for the contents of any other sites listed.  Nor does the inclusion of a link imply endorsement, approval or recommendation by the charity.

Habitat and species ID

The Wildlife Trusts often run online and in person training courses and a full list of upcoming events from all trusts can be found here: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/events.

The FSC (Field Studies Council) are running a project called Biolinks until 2022, providing a mixture of free and low cost courses both in person and online. Upcoming courses can be viewed here: https://www.field-studies-council.org/biolinks-courses/.

Other FSC courses can be accessed here: https://www.field-studies-council.org/courses-and-experiences/

CIEEM (Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) over a number of courses including habitat surveying courses: https://cieem.net/i-am/continuing-professional-development/upcoming-training-and-events/

Herefordshire Biological records centre are running a project called Hidden Herefordshire, as part of this they are providing a range of different courses: https://hbrc.org.uk/

Below are a number of template risk assessments. These should be considered templates only.

The attached document has a selection of current available funding opportunities and will be updated periodically.