Ouse community boosting wildlife
22/05/2023
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…
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Partners in Weald to Waves
16/03/2023
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…
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The Southwood Foundation welcomes new trustees
02/03/2023
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…
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COP 15 – Urgent Call For Action
15/11/2022
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…
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We are recruiting new trustees
09/11/2022
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…)
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Wild About Warnham!
02/11/2022
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…
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ACF second annual report on the Funder Commitment on Climate Change
05/07/2022
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…
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TSF Nature Action Hub Takes Root
06/04/2022
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,…
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Fundraising to support reintroduction of Greater Horseshoe Bats in Sussex
17/01/2022
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…
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TSF COP 26 Statement
22/10/2021
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…
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