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...
Nature reserves and wildlife tourism
RSPB St Aidan’s Nature Park – developing the visitor experience
Client: RSPB For the RSPB at St Aidan’s Nature Park, in the Aire Valley by Leeds, we carried out a review of development proposals to enhance the visitor experience at the Nature Park (a hybrid recreation/nature reserve developed on a former coal extraction site)...
Nature reserve business plan, Brockholes – a floating visitor centre
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...
National Lottery Heritage Fund Business Plan, Rye Harbour Discovery Centre
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...
Audience Development Heritage Lottery Fund, RSPB Rainham Marshes Visitor Centre
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...
Northumberland Wildlife Trust enhancing the visitor experience
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...
Environmental charity: Revenue generation
Client: Charity Working for a large environmental charity we were commissioned to carry out a feasibility study to evaluate the opportunity to develop a new environmental consultancy to generate revenue to support their charitable objects and activities. Our work...
Visitor Centre Feasibility Study, Marches Mosses, Shropshire Wildlife Trust
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...
Visitor experience masterplan Titchfield Haven National Nature Reserve
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...
Enhancing the Visitor Experience at West Port Lake Visitor Centre, Stoke on Trent
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...
Primary research, Steart Peninsula, Somerset
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...
Enhancing the visitor experience at the Wolseley Centre
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....
Feasibility Study for a Visitor Centre Wigan Flashes Local Nature Reserve, Wigan
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...
Feasibility Study Mere Sands Wood Nature Reserve, Lancashire
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...
Feasibility Study, Shapwick Heath National Nature Reserve
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 (part of Somerset’s Levels and Moors). A significant area of the reserve is a...
Business Planning, Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve
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...
Heritage Lottery Fund Audience Development, River Lambourn Urban Restoration Project, Newbury, Berkshire
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...
Paxton Pits Nature Reserve Visitor Experience Masterplan
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...