Essex Wildlife Trust

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay 💚 We are huge advocates of nature's benefits for health and wellbeing. Spending time outdoors can help our mental health in so many positive ways. Today, use your lunch break for a walk or go outside as soon as the working day ends for you - we promise you'll feel refreshed. It might not be spring anymore, but this dawn chorus recording from West Wood nature reserve is the perfect listen for 5 minutes of nature if you can't get outside today. We recommend headphones for the best experience. 🤗👂 Full 5 minute clip 👉 https://loom.ly/skzGI58 #mentalhealth #wellbeing #nature #conservation #wildlife

So many great Halloween events at Essex Wildlife Trust sites this October half term 🎃 From evening bat walks to wand whittling, potion making, and special spooky trails, check out our website 🎃 https://lnkd.in/e8RrKvXy https://lnkd.in/em_n_vP3

Time for a nature fix 🦅 We're interrupting your timeline to show you this amazing photo of an osprey surrounded by avocet. This was captured at Fingringhoe Wick Nature Discovery Park in Colchester last week by Alan Reynolds. 📷 You never know what you're going to see at a nature reserve! 🤗 #birdofprey #osprey #nature #wildlife #Essex

Congratulations to the wonderful winners of the Wilder Essex Awards. 👏 Each year, we nominate four individuals, businesses or groups who are going above and beyond for nature in Essex. We hope you'll join us in congratulating: 🐝 Clayburn Community Gardens - Wilder Community Award 🌳 Alex Holliman - Green Leader Award 🦢 Essex & Suffolk Water - Wilder Business Award 🌲 Steve Spicer - Ray Marsh Award Find out more about our winners: https://lnkd.in/eEQFZJk4 Essex & Suffolk Water Climbing Trees Alex Holliman Rich Yates

There's still time to have your say in the Local Nature Recovery Strategy ⏰ This document has been drafted for public consultation and includes mapping of nature recovery opportunities, biodiversity priorities and key actions. Use your voice to shape nature's future 👉 https://loom.ly/2trfdD4

Happy birthday to us 🎈 🎂 On this day, 65 years ago, a group of Essex volunteers gathered at County Hall Chelmsford. These volunteers were brought together by their concerns for wildlife and habitat protection in Essex, so they formed the Essex Naturalists’ Trust. This became Essex Wildlife Trust in 1991. Thanks to everyone who's supported us over these years, past and present. Here's to the future! 💚

One of our wonderful Investor in Wildlife Corporate Members has just upgraded their support from Gold to Platinum 👏 Our Corporate Communications Officer Grant Maton had the pleasure of presenting Tim Downs and Carrianne Downs from Bitwise-IT Limited with their Platinum certificate at Hanningfield Nature Discovery Visitor Centre. Tim & Carrianne (Directors) added; "Being avid animal and wildlife lovers it has always been important to us to support local charities with a mission to preserve and save our natural environments and the creatures and animals within.   We have always known that as Bitwise-IT grows, we will give more back to support these charities, so I am happy to say that we have now upgraded to become Platinum corporate members of the Essex Wildlife Trust.   As Bitwise-IT continues to help more and more small businesses manage their IT systems, we look forward to providing even further sponsorship to the EWT in the very near future." Thank you Bitwise-IT Limited for helping us achieve a #WilderEssex whilst inspiring people to have a lifelong love of nature  

Thank you to our volunteers! 💚 We had another great volunteer thank you evening recently, this time at Abberton Reservoir Nature Discovery Park. Our volunteers help us to manage our nature reserves, run events, fundraise for the Trust, support our Nature Discovery Centres and so much more - we couldn't do it without them. 👏 #volunteer #charity #thankyou

Members, don't miss out 🚨 We're inviting you to join us at Nature Discovery Centres across Essex to celebrate our 65th birthday. 🎈🎂 It's not too late to book a space on one of our free guided walks tomorrow, starting from 2pm. ⏰ Book your space 👉 https://loom.ly/jJYpED8 📷 Wren - Andrew Morffew

Not long now until our AGM - have you registered? ⏰ Join us online on 28 September at 10am and then head to a Nature Discovery Centre near you to join one of our free guided walks in the afternoon. 🥳 Book your space on a guided walk 👉 https://loom.ly/jJYpED8 📷 Long-tailed tit - Jon Hawkins – Surrey Hills Photography