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Our natural health service
This April, I’m ‘locked down’ in my small house in Hexham with three adults, a two-year-old toddler and a seven-week-old baby.
A Wilder Maternity Leave
Just a couple of weeks ago I was pushing the buggy round my local nature reserve. The same trip I’ve been making several times a week for several months on my maternity leave. I’d stop at the…

Look out and up
In these times of relative confinement, we are not all lucky enough to have a garden, outdoor space or green area nearby where they can take regular sojourns into relative wildness and nature-…

Restoring Ratty - a shout out to our volunteers, crumbs we miss you!
The Restoring Ratty team are really missing everyone during this difficult time. Here's a brief hello and update from Kelly Hollings.

Garden Nature Blog - Virtual vs Real Living
Whilst working at home, in between video conferencing, Zoom, Skype and Teams meetings across the virtual airwaves, I immerse myself in my little wild acre of garden. I describe it as ‘my wild…

The five-letter V word
Following Veganuary, trustee Karen Statham explains why she turned to a plant-based diet but avoids the five-letter V word.

Natural solutions to the climate crisis
Will Parsons, The Wildlife Trusts’ public affairs officer, reveals the role natural habitats play in tackling the climate crisis.
Matt's first three months with Ratty!
At the end of August 2019 I packed away my study books and prepared to start my student placement with Northumberland Wildlife Trust.

What Climate Crisis? Are you listening?
Greta Thunberg’s repeated question: ”Are you listening?” meaning, are you really taking notice enough to act on behalf of this failing world now we have a climate and an extinction emergency on…

The Inglorious 12th – A Distant Call
Monday 12th August, known as the Glorious 12th, marks the start of the grouse shooting season.