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Surrey Wildlife Trust

Annual Report & Accounts 2024/25

Surrey Wildlife Trust manages over 5,000 hectares across 60-plus nature reserves in Surrey, working towards the national 30x30 goal of protecting land and sea for nature. In 2024–25 nearly 500 volunteers gave 27,000 hours, 4,300 young people visited Nower Wood, and 190 community organisations received conservation support. The Trust also advises on a further 4,000 hectares and delivers ecology consultancy through its subsidiary.

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Direct land management of heathland, woodland, grassland and wetlands; nature-based solutions advice to landowners and businesses; ecological planning and consultancy via SWT Ecology Services; community empowerment and citizen science; education programmes for schools and adults; research and monitoring partnerships with universities

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Over 5,000 hectares of nature reserves managed across 60-plus sites in Surrey
Key Metric 2 Almost 500 volunteers contributed more than 27,000 hours of practical conservation work
Key Metric 3 4,300 young people welcomed to Nower Wood education centre; 25 schools partnered through Wilder Schools programme

Key Outcomes

  • Heathland Connections project engaged over 50 landowners and administered £35,500 in habitat improvement grants to improve fragmented lowland heathland connectivity
  • Space4Nature citizen science project engaged more than 200 volunteers in wetland, chalk grassland and heathland surveys, developing a new county-wide habitat connectivity mapping methodology
  • Expert support and advice provided to 190 local organisations, and more than 500 adults attended conservation training courses at Nower Wood

Geography

South East

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