Donations boost green streams

Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has launched a service which will see it stream green spaces to hospital patients to help their recovery.

The new streaming service allows NHS patients and staff to watch nature at the trust’s Willington Wetlands Nature Reserve while they are in hospital.

The trust’s staff and volunteers at the nature reserve partnered with Miller Homes and two of its contractors, KB Scaffolding and Apex Scaffolding, to organise the donation of scaffolding, which has been used to create a filming structure, boardwalks and bridges.

The trust has previously worked with University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust to stream images to patients but now, with the help of this donation, hopes to include pre-recorded videos and explore the possibility of live streaming footage as it happens.

Henry Richards, living landscape officer at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, said: “We are incredibly grateful to Miller Homes, KB Scaffolding and Apex Scaffolding for their donation, which will not only help us to make important improvements to our reserve, but also allow us to take our live streaming project forward and give more people who need it, access to nature even when they can’t visit us themselves.

“We are incredibly fortunate to have developed strategic partnerships with lots of local and regional businesses in this way who share our concern for the environment. Through their membership, donations, fundraising and ongoing support, we can achieve more for wildlife together than we would on our own.”