School visits
We can help teachers and schools bring subjects to life with school visits, creating wilder school playgrounds and taking the schoolchildren out on trips to see wildlife and nature reserves across Derbyshire.
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Education centres
Our education centre has welcomed thousands of people over the years - we have our Wildlife Discovery Room based at Carsington Water near Ashbourne and our outdoor classroom. So come and get wild with us!
Media Centre
Derbyshire Wildlife Trusts can provide stories, quotes and features about our stunning wild places, fabulous events and nature conservation work across the county.
Thinking outside the Learning Objective- The Forest School Way
Read how Sarah Owens, a Head Teacher in Derbyshire, completed her Forest School Level 3 training with us and was inspired by the Forest School ethos!
Derbyshire Biological Records Centre
The Derbyshire Wildlife Trust hosts the Derbyshire Biological Records Centre, which collates and combines data on all species within Derbyshire, including protected species, species of conservation importance, designated and non-designated sites and priority habitat types.
£5,000 awarded to Derbyshire School Pupils championing outdoor learning
Primary School pupils working with Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to realise their vision of enjoying more outdoor learning have been awarded a £5,000 grant from leading educational charity The Ernest…
Love your Local Biological Records Centre
Our next guest blog is written by our Derbyshire Biological Records Centre Assistant, Charlie, telling us all about her role and how you can help the team by sending in your own sightings.
Biological Record Centre hits Record numbers
A staggering 2.4 million species records for Derbyshire have now been submitted and collated in the Derbyshire Biological Records Centre ready to be put to work for the better conservation of…
Wilder Learning
Training Courses
Morning visit to The Avenue Washlands
Brian Cuttell details his latest sightings...
In your school grounds
We can help your school develop your grounds to create a valuable learning resource and vital habitats for wildlife. Our activities can be adapted for pupils of all ages and abilities.
Our vision
Our purpose is to achieve our vision of a Wilder Derbyshire.
We will achieve this by pursuing our mission to create nature recovery networks. We will deliver our mission by leading nature’s recovery, inspiring people and communities to care and mobilising people to act.
We will achieve this by pursuing our mission to create nature recovery networks. We will deliver our mission by leading nature’s recovery, inspiring people and communities to care and mobilising people to act.