The Southwood Foundation is a partner in the Weald to Waves initiative, an excitingly ambitious 100 mile nature corridor through East and West Sussex along the Adur, Arun and Ouse rivers. Maps of the corridor detailing habitats and species, opportunities, threats to nature and much more are now live and…

On Saturday 13th May the Southwood Foundation joined people and organisations from across the lower Ouse Valley at Lewes Railway Land Nature Reserve to launch the Ouse Wild Network in East Sussex and share ideas and plans for accelerating nature recovery, increasing community access to wildlife, and boosting the local…

We are delighted to be working on the development of Weald to Waves, a ground breaking 100 mile nature recovery corridor, connecting our fragmented landscape to boost biodiversity, capture carbon and promote economic and social wellbeing in rural Sussex. We will be helping to connect the dots across the nature…

We are delighted to welcome two new trustees, Michelle Roffe and Ben Harris, to the Southwood Foundation’s Board of Trustees. Michelle Roffe has many years’ experience in senior positions in the National Lottery Heritage Fund, inspiring and empowering organisations to deliver transformational conservation projects. She brings a wealth of experience…

The Southwood Foundation and our partners Rothamsted Research are calling for the utmost ambition at the UN COP 15 global conference, to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity. Both organisations are strongly committed to nature recovery and are monitoring the developments regarding a Global Biodiversity Framework due to be…

TSF is looking to recruit two or more new trustees to help us drive action on the environment with specific expertise in one or more of the following areas: (more…)

We are delighted that the Southwood Foundation's Nature Action Hub is supporting the creation of a Pollinator Highway in West Sussex. Stretching for a couple of miles over farmland, churchyard, highway verges, a village green and private gardens in the parish of Warnham in West Sussex, the pollinator highway is…

The Southwood Foundation activities to help combat climate change and reverse biodiversity loss have been included in the Association of Charitable Foundation’s second annual report on the Funders' Commitment on Climate Change. All charitable foundations, regardless of their primary mission, are called upon to rise to the unprecedented challenge of…

TSF's Nature Action Hub has been set up to provide a volunteering platform for ecology experts, connecting nature specialists with community groups needing advice on the best action to take for  nature restoration and wildlife in their local areas. So when a community in Eastbourne needed advice on tree planting,…

We are delighted at the progress being made by the Vincent Wildlife Trust and Sussex Bat Group in their drive to raise funds to protect a newly discovered maternity colony of Horseshoe Bats in Sussex.  The bats have been absent from all but very few areas of the UK for…