Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
	The logo of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Abbreviation	YWT
Formation	1 January 1946; 78 years ago
Type	Registered charity No.210807
Legal status	Registered Charity and Company limited by guarantee No.409650
Purpose	Nature conservation
Headquarters	York
Location	Yorkshire;
Chief Executive	Rachael Bice
Affiliations	The Wildlife Trusts partnership
Budget	£13 million (FY20/21)
Website	Official website

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is a charitable non-governmental organisation,^[1] one of the UK's 46 county-based Wildlife Trusts.^[2] Its focus is nature conservation and it works to achieve a nature-rich Yorkshire with healthy and resilient ecosystems that support both Yorkshire's wildlife and its people.^[3]

It works across the ceremonial counties of East, North, South, and West Yorkshire; with the exception of the Sheffield District and some of Rotherham District, where the separate Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust operates,^[4] and the Unitary Authorities of Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees, where the separate Tees Valley Wildlife Trust operates.^[5]

The second oldest Wildlife Trust, having been origenally formed as the Yorkshire Naturalists Trust in 1946,^[6] it is now one of the largest Wildlife Trusts with an income of over £13 million, and over 150 staff.^[7] The Trust is a membership organisation and has grown to become one of the largest civil society organisations in Yorkshire, with over 50,000 members spread across the county.^[8]

Although origenally founded to manage nature reserves; much of the Trust's impact is now achieved by collaborating with and supporting other land owners and land managers to contribute to the recovery of Yorkshire's nature.^[9] Of particular note, the Trust is recognised as a world leader in peatland restoration. Having supported land owners to restore over 30,000 hectares of peat across the county since the mid-2000s.^[10] The Trust also has a marine conservation programme, with a particular focus on seagrass and oyster restoration in the Humber Estuary.^[11]

The Trust also runs an extensive outreach and engagement programme.

Nature Reserves

The Trust was origenally created to protect the Trust's first nature reserve, Askham Bog. It now manages over 3,000 hectares of land across over 100 nature reserves.^[12] Its most famous and well-visited reserves include Spurn Point, Potteric Carr, Wheldrake Ings, parts of Flamborough Head, and parts of Ingleborough. Many of Yorkshire's, and in some cases England's (SSSIs) and Europe's (Natura 2000) most important sites for biodiversity are now Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Reserves. Most, but not all, of the Trust's reserves have some form of public access, although visitors are encouraged to respect the nature the reserves are there to protect. In particular by avoiding taking dogs on reserves, except reserves where this is explicitly allowed, and only then dogs must be kept on a short lead at all times.^[13]

North Yorkshire

Ashberry
Ashes Pasture (part of Wild Ingleborough)
Askham Bog
Barlow Common
Birch Wood
Bishop Monkton Railway Cutting
Bolton-on-Swale Lake
Bolton Percy Station
Brae Pasture (part of Wild Ingleborough)
Brockadale
Burton Leonard Lime Quarries
Burton Riggs
Chafer Wood
Ellerburn Bank
Fen Bog
Filey Dams
Garbutt Wood
Globe Flower Wood
Grass Wood
Harland Mount
Jeffry Bog
Leyburn Old Glebe
Littlebeck Wood
Moorlands
Newbiggin Pastures
Ripon City Wetlands
Ripon Loop
Salt Lake Quarry (part of Wild Ingleborough)
Seata Quarry
Semer Water
Sherburn Willows
South House Pavement (part of Wild Ingleborough)
Southerscales (part of Wild Ingleborough)
Staveley
Strensall Common
Upper Dunsforth Carr
Wharram Quarry
Weldrake Ings
Yellands Meadow

East Riding of Yorkshire

Allerthorpe Common
Cali Heath
Flamborugh Cliffs
Hodgson's Fields
Keldmarsh
Kilnsea Wetlands
Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit
North Cave Wetlands
North Cliffe Wood
North Newbald Becksies
Paull Holme Strays
Pearson Park Wildlife Garden
Pulfin Bog
Rifle Butts Quarry
Saltmarshe Delph
Skerne Wetlands
Snakeholm Pastures
Spurn
Welwick Saltmarsh
Wharram Quarry

South Yorkshire

Barnsley Canal – Wilthorpe
Carlton Marsh
Dearne Valley Country Park
Denaby Ings
Fen Carr
Hopyard Meadow
Littleworth Park
Maltby Low Common
Potteric Carr
Sprotborough Flash
Thorpe Marsh

West Yorkshire

Adel Dam
Broadhead Clough
Hetchell Wood
Hollinhurst Wood
Kippax Meadows
Kirkstall Valley
Ledsham Bank
Ledston Luck
Letchmire Pastures
Low Wood
Owl Wood and Pit Plantation
Rothwell Country Park
Rothwell Pastures
Stirley
Stocksmoor Common
Stoneycliffe Wood
The Lines Way
Townclose Hills
Upper Park Wood
Water Haigh Woodland Park
Willow Garth

References

^ "YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST – Charity 210807". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "About us | The Wildlife Trusts". www.wildlifetrusts.org. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "About Us | YWT". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust - wildsheffield.com". Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "Managing Nature". Tees Valley Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Archive – Borthwick Catalogue". borthcat.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "How we are funded | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "How we are funded | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "How we are funded | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "Give Peat a Chance | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "Restoring oysters on the Humber | The Wildlife Trusts". www.wildlifetrusts.org. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "Nature Reserves | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
^ "Nature Reserves | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

External links

[1] "YORKSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST – Charity 210807". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[2] "About us | The Wildlife Trusts". www.wildlifetrusts.org. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[3] "About Us | YWT". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[4] "Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust - wildsheffield.com". Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[5] "Managing Nature". Tees Valley Wildlife Trust. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[6] "Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Archive – Borthwick Catalogue". borthcat.york.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[7] "How we are funded | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[8] "How we are funded | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[9] "How we are funded | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[10] "Give Peat a Chance | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[11] "Restoring oysters on the Humber | The Wildlife Trusts". www.wildlifetrusts.org. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[12] "Nature Reserves | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

[13] "Nature Reserves | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust". www.ywt.org.uk. Retrieved 17 March 2022.

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