I'm lucky enough to have had my garden as my saviour during the last year. It has been my retreat and my solace, a place to cope and to create and to re-inspire me. Fortunately, I moved to a…

I have previously worked as a Care Assistant supporting young people and adults experiencing mental health and learning disabilities at St Nicholas Hospital. I applied for the Government funded…

American mink are non-native and pose a threat to water voles in our region. Naturally Native Project Officer, Emily Marshall takes a detailed look at this species and how we can help restore…

In last month’s blog we wrote about the power of slowing down and observing nature in your local green space, and the benefit that this can have on your emotional connection with the world around…

The Wildlife Trusts and NWT in particular, are brilliant at communicating with the wider world. Getting the message across about wildlife and the need for support is critical and they do it so…

As we aim to set up a youth board this year, to advise and get involved in our conservation and engagement delivery and perhaps elect a young person to Council, I am reminded that we never stop…

I made a connection to Northumberland Wildlife Trust quite a few years before we returned north to live. A mutual friend and now our President, Conrad Dickinson, had told our CEO, Mike Pratt, that…

Northumberland Wildlife Trust is delighted to welcome Emily Marshall to the Trust as Northumberland's regional officer for the new Naturally Native project. Hear more from Emily below on her…

There’s a fundamental and well known principle in geology; it goes like this: the present is the key to the past. Aka Uniformitarianism. What it means is that the processes that are happening…

I’m guessing that when we think of nature and wildlife, pretty well all of us think countryside? Yet if we’ve learned anything in lockdown, it’s that nature and the benefits it brings, are all…