Latest News | 21 August 2024
Trust’s upgrades have visitors walking in circles
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has created a new circular walk at one of its nature reserves.
Thanks to £65,000 funding from the Veolia Environmental Trust through the Landfill Communities Fund, with contributions from Transforming the Trent Valley, Mansfield Building Society Charitable Trust and Willington Parish Council, the trust has reconnected a five-mile walk and created a new viewing platform at Willington Wetlands Nature Reserve.
The funding has enabled the trust to improve existing trackway, create further new path and install a bridge over a brook to provide the vital missing links.
The need for the project was originally highlighted by visitors, local residents, the Willington Footpath and Open Spaces Group, cycling groups and the Green Health Walking Group.
Katie Last, living landscape officer for Trent Valley at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, said: “Research has proven that spending time outdoors in nature is great for our physical and mental health, so creating more opportunities for visitors to enjoy their wild surroundings and connect with the wonderful nature that calls this landscape home is really important to us.
“We’re delighted that so many organisations have come together to support this work at Willington Wetlands.
“Thanks to the voices of local people speaking up for nature and the generosity of our funders involved in this project, we can’t wait to welcome visitors to experience this incredible habitat and landscape from a new perspective.”