The Wildlife Discovery Room
The Wildlife Discovery Room at Carsington Water offers a range of interactive wildlife and environmental activities in a fully equipped classroom and outdoor classroom through a partnership with Severn Trent Water.
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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.
My discovery
Look – a boatman! Keira’s delight in learning about unusual creatures is even more special when she can find them herself.
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!
How to help wildlife at school
Whether feeding the birds, or sowing a wildflower patch, setting up wildlife areas in your school makes for happier, healthier and more creative children.
Discover your wild side
Diverse, local and innovative, Derbyshire’s very own Wildside Festival is back for 2019 – and wilder than ever before!
Discover Nature Based Solutions
If you have any questions about the benefits of Rewilding.
Generous donation will help visitors discover more at Aqueduct Cottage
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s Aqueduct Cottage has received a £21,000 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund. The generous support will be used to design and install visitor information…
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!
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.
Discover the different ways that moths and butterflies spend the winter
When did you last see a caterpillar? They’re often cryptic creatures, with patterns that provide perfect camouflage as a piece of leaf, twig or bark. An unwary eye could pass right over one…