Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust

We hold over 400 events every year throughout Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

If you take part in a sponsored event, you can raise money for the Trust through our secure Justgiving webpage.

If you are in Hampshire or the Isle of Wight you’re never more than eight miles from a Wildlife Trust reserve.

Over 79% of memberships are Gift Aided. This is worth a huge £140,000 every year.

In the last 3 months, one member of staff alone has dedicated more than 250 hours (equal to 7 weeks) to the South East Plan examination in public.

The Trust receives over 120 enquiries from the media every year.

The young people volunteering through the youth volunteering programme have done more than 3,500 hours of conservation work in just the last two years.

1 in 7 Wills includes a gift to a charity. Does yours?

In the last 12 months, WildLine received 267 enquiries about wildlife in Hampshire and the Island.

Of our 27,000 members, over 4,700 are under 15 - our voice for the future.

Since November 2005 nearly 400 people have attended our Countryside and Wildlife courses.

In 2007, over 250 people have learned a very wide range of skills on 25 Countryside and Wildlife courses.

Each year, 6000 school children visit our education centres for a day.

The Itchen Navigation

In 2010 the Itchen Navigation will be 300 years old, that's ten times older than the M3.

The Itchen Navigation is part of the River Itchen system that supplies water to half a million people in south Hampshire and disposes of waste water from Winchester and Eastleigh.

Surveys carried out by volunteers in 2006 found that the water vole - Britain's most rapidly declining mammal - was present along 41% of the Navigation's length.
 
Survey volunteers also found at least a third of Britain's bat species were using the Itchen Navigation for feeding during surveys in 2006. And during the spring and summer of 2006, over 60 different species of birds were seen or heard.

Hampshire and the Island's wildlife

Over 1142 species records were submitted last year – that’s 3 records being sent in EVERY DAY of the year!

Hampshire is arguably the most biodiverse county in the UK - it hosts more species than any other county in the country.

All 12 of Britain’s amphibians and reptiles can still be found in Hampshire - 4 of which are regarded as being rare in the UK.

Harvest mice are Europe’s smallest mice, weighing 4 – 6 g, less than a 20p piece. Find out more and take part in our Harvest Mouse Survey.

Hampshire has over 3,750 Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs). Of these, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust manages 51.

Volunteer butterfly transect recorders walk their reserve at least once a week in the summer. In the case of Noar Hill, recorder Tony James will often be up there on any sunny day. Therefore, any lost property is usually found by him. One of the odder items lost, but never claimed was in 2006: a single crutch...