Corporate Support
Make nature your business
We are proud to work with a range of local businesses who share our aims to protect the local natural environment and enable local people to access and enjoy their greenspaces.
From straight forward corporate membership to more bespoke relationships we are keen to form links with companies who are looking to work towards sustainable environmental practices and who support the ideas of wildlife conservation, education and the enormous benefits for people in spending time in nature.
Become a Corporate Member
Join our Wildlife Investor Scheme and directly support local wildlife conservation and education. You’ll get all our standard membership benefits including our Wildlife magazine, as well as an annual certificate of membership and invites to special corporate events.
Benefits of becoming a Wildlife Investor
Tell our 27,000 members you support your local Wildlife Trust through magazine articles and your profile on our website.
Publicise your own involvement, through use of Trust branding, sponsorship opportunities and press releases.
Experience conservation hands-on through our corporate work party days and regular Wildlife Investor events.
Membership contributions
Wildlife Investor membership rates are based on the size of your business.
| Number of employees | Minimum annual contribution (+VAT) |
|---|---|
| Less than 50 | £250 |
| 50-200 | £500 |
| 201-999 | £2,000 (to include one free work party day) |
| Over 1000 | £5,000 (to include two free work party days) |
Get in touch
If you would like to discuss corporate membership or look into setting up a more bespoke relationship with the Trust please contact Stephanie Watson on 01489 774412 or email Steph.Watson@hiwwt.org.uk
Further information
Partnership Policy
Current Wildlife Investors
Thank you to all our Wildlife Investors who are vital in helping us to champion local wildlife and wild places, and inspire people to love nature. The following companies are all corporate members of the Trust and as such are standing up for local wildlife.
Corporate support case study - Portsmouth Water
Portsmouth Water has been an active corporate member of the Wildlife Trust for 13 years. During this time we’ve worked together to the benefit of both organisations and our local wildlife.
Reservoir site on Portsdown Hill
Portsmouth Water has been an active corporate member of the Wildlife Trust for 13 years. During this time we’ve worked together to the benefit of both organisations and our local wildlife.
Ecological Monitoring & Training
Portsmouth Water employed the Trust to carry out bat surveys at 79 buildings and 46 sites to establish if there were any bat roosts likely to be present. We also provided both protected species and bat awareness training for Portsmouth Water staff. This work not only allowed Portsmouth Water to fulfil their legal obligations, but also led to the creation of a Bat Risk Register. Portsmouth Water use the register whenever staff are working or planning work in Portsmouth Water building stock, ensuring they can protect and conserve bats during their day-to-day activities.
Living Landscapes in Practice
Through working with the Trust, Portsmouth Water has been inspired to use its 53 operational land holdings to create ‘stepping stones for nature’ in keeping with our landscape approach to nature conservation. Simple actions like amending or reducing mowing regimes at grassland sites have made a difference. Portsmouth Water helped the Trust have a more strategic impact across our region by feeding into the company’s Water Resource Management Plan in 2014.
To find out more about Portsmouth Water and view their annual biodiversity report, click here.
"Our membership, along with that of other local companies has enabled the Trust to do more to protect local wildlife and wild places and is a clear signal to our 700,000 customers and business partners that we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously". Tracey Viney, Portsmouth Water
Wildlife Investor Field Trip Itchen Lagoon
Portsmouth Water chose to cement its relationship with the Trust by becoming a corporate member. Staff have regularly attended Wildlife Investor events, sending representatives to find out more about the work of the Trust and to network with and share business practices with our other corporate members. In 2011 Portsmouth Water hosted a popular event at their Itchen Water Treatment Works. The event combined talks from Trust experts about our river catchment work, and from Portsmouth Water about their work at the site to produce the water supply we all rely on and to improve the local habitats for the resident wildlife.
Our membership, along with that of other local companies has enabled the Trust to do more to protect local wildlife and wild places and is a clear signal to our 700,000 customers and business partners that we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously.Portsmouth Water
Our ongoing relationship makes it is easier for either the Trust or Portsmouth Water to start discussing elements of our work that might overlap. The secret of getting the best for local nature is the ability to share knowledge to get the best for local communities and local wildlifeHampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
The Southern Co-operative volunteering day
Southern Co-op
"Investing in our local communities and surrounding environment is intrinsic to the Southern Co-op, an independent society with over 200 food stores and funeral homes across the south of England."
