Our Natural World

We want to ensure that our natural world is restored and protected, and that people benefit from that recovery.

Ambitious partnerships and collaborations that can influence and deliver change at scale continue to play a key role. In 2022, we supported Nature North, a collaboration between 10 major organisations working together to create a thriving environment across Northern England. At a national scale, we worked with WWF, RSPB and the National Trust on a major citizens assembly to develop the Peoples’ Plan for Nature.

We expanded our support for peatland restoration: with the North Wales Wildlife Trust on the Anglesey Fens; across the whole of Northern Ireland with a collaboration convened by Ulster Wildlife Trust; and in Scotland with the Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust (ACT), Crichton Carbon Centre and the North Highlands

Initiative. We’re also pleased to be supporting RE-PEAT, a youth-led peatland collective aiming to transform how people treat peatlands through collaboration, education and a process of re-imagining.

Across our strategy, we believe communities should be at the heart of change. On freshwater, we’re working with Freshwater Biological Association, River Action and the Rivers Trust to support community-led groups to take action on the state of their rivers. And using our Tools, we’re working with a communications consultancy to support local community-led freshwater campaigns.

To influence the development of high integrity and community-focused models of financing nature we worked with a range of new partners, including Nature Scot, the Bank of England and Dark Matter Labs.