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…

The outcome of the COP 26 climate talks in November could not be more critical. As leaders from over 200 countries come together in Glasgow to agree action to combat the escalating climate crisis, it is essential that our appointed representatives show unprecedented ambition, commitment, leadership, and cooperation. They need…

The Southwood Foundation (TSF) is delighted to be supporting a major new campaign to help reintroduce the rare greater horseshoe bat to the south-east of England. Greater horseshoe bats suffered an estimated a 90% decline in the UK in the 20th century. Since the 1970s they have only been found…

The Southwood Foundation has joined a diverse group of influential foundations based in the UK and Italy calling for decisive actions on climate, biodiversity and health in a joint open letter to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. In the lead up to the…