Client: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Working as visitor centre business planning consultants we assessed the feasibility of introducing a free admission visitor centre, the Attenborough Nature Centre, at a nature reserve in Nottingham for the Nottinghamshire...
Client: Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside Working as visitor attraction business planinng consultants we worked with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust's project team to prepare a business plan, which has been used to successfully gain £8...
Client: Sussex Wildlife Trust We were commissioned by the Sussex Wildlife Trust to prepare a business plan which is being used to support a National Lottery Heritage Fund funding application for the Rye Harbour Discovery Visitor Centre. Our work focused on:...
Client: RSPB We carried out visitor and community research to produce an Audience Development Plan for Rainham, Wellington and Aveley Marshes RSPB Nature Reserve for a Heritage Lottery Grant Application. This represented one the RSPB’s first urban nature reserves. The...
Client: Shropshire Wildlife Trust Restoring the Marches Mosses is a five-year project and it is a partnership between Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Natural England and Natural Resources Wales. The multi-million pound project is supported by EU LIFE and the Heritage...
Client Hampshire County Council Nature reserve visitor experience masterplan - we developed a visitor experience masterplan for Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve. This considered investment needs, approaches to improving operational performance and enhancing...
Client: Staffordshire Wildlife Trust The Staffordshire Wildlife Trust manages 25 nature reserves across Staffordshire and the innovative visitor and education centre at West Port Lake in Stoke-on-Trent. This was built by British Waterways (now known as the Canal &...
Clients: Bristol Port Company, RSPB and Wetland and Wildfowl Trust Our work focused on designing and implementing a range of onsite surveys on Steart Peninsula to identify the needs and aspirations of visitors and members of the local community and we also liaised...
Client: Staffordshire Wildlife Trust The Staffordshire Wildlife Trust manages 25 nature reserves across Staffordshire and The Wolseley Centre. Our work focussed on accessing the existing customer experience at the visitor centre and associated reserve. Following the...
Client: Wigan Borough Council Working with Wigan Borough Council and Partners, we were commissioned to carry out a feasibility study for a new visitor centre at Wigan Flashes. The Flashes are one of the most important urban wetland sites in England in terms of...
Client: Lancashire Wildlife Trust Working with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust we were commissioned to carry out a feasibility study and prepare a business plan to enhance the visitor experience at Mere Sands Wood, an existing nature reserve with a small-scale visitor...
Client: Natural England Located on the Somerset Levels near Glastonbury, Shapwick Heath is a major wetlands nature reserve and covers over 500 hectares. There is evidence of Neolithic man on the reserve with the famous Sweet Track which is the oldest man made routeway...
Client: Natural England Humberhead Peatlands NNR incorporates Thorne, Goole, Crowle and Hatfield Moors and represents the largest area of raised bog wilderness in lowland Britain. Over 200 species of bird have been recorded on site. Both Thorne and Hatfield Moors are...
Client: Farming Wildlife Advisory Group Working with Resources for Change we completed a Heritage Lottery Fund Audience Development plan for the final 2.5km of the River Lambourn as it flows through Newbury, Berkshire. The plans will support a bid in the region of £1...
Client: Huntingdonshire District Council Paxton Pits Nature Reserve is a large reserve in the Great Ouse Valley with an impressive mosaic of wetland and terrestrial habitats. As a former quarry site the nature reserve has been used for gravel extraction since the...
Client: Natural England Castle Eden Dene NNR is an important community recreation and wildlife resource near Peterlee in County Durham. Covering 221 hectares the reserve incorporates woodland and lowland grassland with limestone cliffs and gorges. The NNR is linear...