Nine Wildlife Trusts, including our own, is going into partnership with UK Power Networks, to help preserve and develop wildlife habitats.
As part of the new arrangement, UK Power Networks is supporting each trust financially and intends to arrange 27 employee team day events each year, three for each wildlife trust. Teams of employee volunteers will help the trusts with activities such as coppicing and digging drainage trenches.
UK Power Networks sustainability manager Clive Steed said: “We employ about 5,500 staff who are always keen to help local causes and strengthen links within the communities we serve, and we also want to offer these employees volunteering and learning opportunities.
“In the past our employees have been pleased to help local wildlife trusts with individual projects and this new partnership will raise our commitment to the next level. The partnership is just one of many ways in which UK Power Networks is planning to help look after the environment.”
Caroline Prout, Corporate Partnerships Manager at the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire & Peterborough explains that “partnerships like this are really important to the Trust. Not only do they provide vital funds but they also provide us with the man power to help carry out important conservation work on our reserves. It’s great to see employees making a real difference on their local nature reserve and then see them going back to visit again with their families to show them the work they have done”.
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