Client: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust We prepared the business plan to develop a visitor centre, the Attenborough Nature Centre, at a nature reserve in Nottingham for the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. The reserve has been developed on a former gravel extraction...
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 was used to successfully gain £8 million in...
Client: Sussex Wildlife Trust Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is a coastal landscape of outstanding geological, biological, cultural and heritage value on the boundary of East Sussex and Kent. The reserve is home to over 4,000 species of plants and animals, including more...
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: Northumberland Wildlife Trust The Northumberland Wildlife Trust manages over 60 nature reserves across Northumberland. The wider study area included the Druridge Bay and Coast Project. Working with the Trust’s senior management team and Trustees we visited a...
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 including 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 The Steart Peninsula project is related to the creation of over 400 hectares of intertidal wetland habitat nature reserve. This has been achieved through managed realignment involving removal of part...
Client: Staffordshire Wildlife Trust The Staffordshire Wildlife Trust manages 25 nature reserves across Staffordshire including the The Wolseley Centre the Trust's HQ. Our work focused on accessing the existing visitor experience at the visitor centre and wider site....
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 a 260-hectare Local Nature Reserve. The Flashes are one of the most important urban wetland...
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 and forms part of the Avalon Marshes. Parts of the sites are designated as Site of Special Scientific Interest the...
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...