Water Vole - Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
Support an appeal
By supporting our fundraising appeals, you are helping contribute to our vital conservation work and helping to protect precious local wildlife and wild places. With your support we can help nature recover and make a difference to the future of wildlife in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Restore, Reclaim and Renew Appeal
Helping nature thrive again
We have a vision for a wilder Leicestershire and Rutland. Imagine our counties with more wildlife, more wild places and more people having a strong connection to nature.
This year we aim to raise £60,000 to create a sustainable foundation for our conservation efforts.
With your support we'll be ready to tackle urgent challenges, support innovative projects, and protect wildlife and nature every day.
With your help, we will Restore, Reclaim and Renew. Together, we will breathe new life into our counties.
Rutland Osprey Future Fund
For nearly 30 years the Rutland Osprey Project has been one of the UK's greatest conservation success stories, and we have been overwhelmed by the support shown by so many of you.
Our appeal has raised over £24,000 to date, enabling so much work to be done, including including osprey recording and monitoring, nest checking and maintenance, and bird ringing.
Osprey fledging
Ospreys on Nest and Nest Cam, Credit Ray Kilham
Wild About Our Reserves
Our matched funding appeal was incredibly well supported, and we would like to thank all of you for helping make it such a success. In total, the appeal raised over £140,000, and we are now able to carry out a number of different projects across our nature reserves.
Here you can read about the new steps created at Ketton Quarry, as Sarah Bedford, Senior Reserves Officer, explains.
"During May and June of 2024, staff and volunteers at Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust have been working hard to create a new set of steps in a previously precarious area of the nature reserve and to re-establish a second set of steps that had become a quagmire, leading to and from one of the public rights of way.
With funding through LRWT’s reserve appeal and donations of aggregate from Mick George, through Heidelberg Cement, the steps have taken shape and represent a dramatic improvement in access for visitors to this beautiful nature reserve.
Thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers, over 8 tonnes of limestone was laid down on a hot day at the end of June, to give the steps their finishing touch. The paths are now reopened at the perfect time for visitors to enjoy this calcareous grassland reserve for its multitude of wildflowers and butterflies."
