There are many areas of our work that businesses can sponsor, such as our publications and leaflets, taking care of our nature reserves, interpretation boards, the Trust’s work with Schools and community projects.
We will help you gain the maximum benefit from any sponsorship arrangement and where possible we can involve your staff directly in the work and also provide opportunities for your customers to see how you are helping to take care of Sussex
Whether it’s a community project working with school children, a leaflet about our reserves or a new vehicle for one of our conservation team, there are always opportunities to sponsor the work of the Sussex Wildlife Trust.
By promoting your business and where possible involving your staff, we aim to make sponsorship a rewarding experience with tangible benefits for all concerned.
Recent projects:
Forest Schools ... Many thanks to BAA Communities Trust for funding seven new Forest Schools programmes across Sussex.
The Trust’s successful Forest Schools programme offers children, young people and adults of mixed abilities, regular opportunities to gain confidence and raise self-worth through a series of achievable hands-on bushcraft
and conservation tasks.
BAA Communities Trust has agreed to cover ten sessions over ten weeks for seven local community groups or schools in a local woodland. Key to the partnership is the special focus on using ancient woodland and countryside around Gatwick Green Space, which the Trust already uses to run occasional Forest School sessions.
The varied woodland locations of Gatwick Green Space provide the perfect environment to learn basic forest techniques including using bow saws and knives to make tools, lighting a fire and using a storm kettle to make hot drinks, cooking a meal and shelter building.
‘Go Wild at Rolls-Royce’ ... Charlie Dimmock was welcomed to Rolls-Royce Motor Cars’ manufacturing plant and head office at Goodwood, near Chichester, to help children from Fishbourne CE Primary School create a wildlife garden. The school were the winners of the ‘Go Wild at Rolls-Royce’ competition, a joint project organised by Sussex Wildlife Trust and Rolls-Royce.
The project offered children the opportunity to develop their creative skills within the National Curriculum and to develop understanding of the environment. The brief was to create a garden which provides habitats for creatures like butterflies, ladybirds and spiders, as part of the food chain for the many varied wildlife species that are frequently seen at the Goodwood site. These include swans, ducks, geese, moorhens, cormorants, terns, badgers, deer, foxes and owls. The Fishbourne school children will return to the garden and see which animal species have colonised it.
Rolls-Royce are Gold level members of the Trust and their employees lent a hand in the wildlife garden. They prepared the ground and planted specially selected shrubs to encourage insect colonisation as part of the biological food chain at the 42-acre site. Rolls-Royce has already established over 400,000 trees and shrubs to encourage biodiversity and to ensure that the buildings blend in with the surrounding landscape.
Stanmer Park Wildlife Garden ... Legal and General and a team of offenders from the Sussex Probation Area Community Payback Scheme are helping Sussex Wildlife Trust create an outdoor classroom and wildlife garden in Stanmer Park.
The project, funded by Legal & General, will provide the Trust with a much needed site in the Brighton area to run our ever expanding programme of activities. As well as a variety of events and courses, the outdoor classroom and garden will be used for the Trust’s environmental education programme and children’s holiday clubs.
On Friday 2 November, offenders from the Community Payback team, Trust project leaders and Legal & General staff worked side by side on the garden – erecting fences, making mini-beast homes and constructing a storytelling area.
The National Probation Service Community Payback Scheme enables members of the public to suggest projects that offenders could complete as part of their Unpaid Work hours. Unpaid Work is a punishment for offenders which also enables them to give something positive back to the local community whilst being rehabilitated. It also gives offenders additional skills to help them find paid employment which is one of the key factors in reducing reoffending. The Sussex Community Payback scheme has so far provided over 100,000 hours of community based work.
For more information contact: Michael Edmonds, Business Development Officer
Tel: 01273 497522 Email: michaeledmonds@sussexwt.org.uk
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