Business Partnerships & support

a group of people outside South Walney Nature Reserve visitor centre

The Wilder Side of Business

How your business can benefit from investing in our local environment and partnering with us.

Your business can benefit from investing in our local environment & partnering with us

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Partnerships with Cumbria Wildlife Trust are good for business, your staff and your customers – and they're good for our environment and wildlife too.

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As a business, you can choose to play a vital role in sustaining and protecting the wild places across Cumbria.

By working with us, your business will demonstrate commitment to supporting our high impact, local action which tackles issues that affect us all. You’ll improve the quality of the environment in which you, your employees and your customers live and work.

Bowberhead wild flower meadows on a summers day

Bowber Head Farm Nature Reserve

Lakeland Ltd donate the plastic bag tax to creating flower-rich grasslands, giving £40,000 over 2 years

Image of Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve with cottongrass in foreground. Credit: Bex Lynam

Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve with cottongrass in the foreground. © Bex Lynam

Ticket Tailor donate 5% of profits to charities working on the climate emergency. They donate to our work protecting and restoring natural carbon stores, in particular at Witherslack Mosses which includes our Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve.

Invest in your environment

  • Lock away carbon and increase biodiversity

Help to restore habitats that lock away carbon whilst benefiting biodiversity; peatbogs, wildflower habitats, marine environment, Atlantic rainforests, woodlands and nature reserves.

  • Community engagement and social benefits

Involve your employees, customers, suppliers and the community that you're part of.

  • Sponsorship

Sponsor our events, conservation projects, apprenticeships and nature reserves. Or nominate us as your charity of the year.

  • Bespoke options

Donation of plastic bag tax, point of sale donations, cause-related marketing, advice on restoring the biodiversity on your land – or any idea you wish to talk through!

  • Business membership

Whether you're a small business or a large organisation, we've a range of options that reflect your standing in the business community. Invest in the environment. Find out more about corporate membership.

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Invest in your workforce

Three in five employees experience mental health problems at some stage in their career, costing the UK economy £30 billion a year.

It was a great day. I feel physically and mentally refreshed!
An employee
Siemens
inov-8 at a Wild Work Day clearing wood at Craggy Conservation Day credit Dave McFarlane via inov-8

inov-8 on a Wild Work Day at a Craggy Conservation Day © Dave McFarlane via inov-8

Wild Work Day

This is an opportunity for your colleagues to come together and team build.

Why not arrange a unique day for your colleagues away from your office? Spend the day with us, learn new sills and connect with nature. This could include:

• Hands-on conservation activity • Guided nature walks • Learning about habitats or species • Working with communities • Bushcraft and wild countryside skills • Creative art and nature session

A group walking down a woodland path in sunshine

© Cumbria Wildlife Trust

Wild Wellbeing Day

This is an opportunity to invest in the wellbeing of your staff.

We centre our Wild Wellbeing Days around the 5 Ways to Wellbeing in wild natural settings throughout the North West. Studies by the New Economics Foundation have shown that these 5 ways enhance wellbeing and have potential to reduce mental health problems in the longer term.

We can arrange group bookings or people can join individually so they can have their own space and time.

We had a wonderful day with the team at South Walney Nature Reserve…
O’Neil Architects
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Why not get in touch to have a chat about how your business could invest in our natural environment?

Get in touch!

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If you'd like your employer to support Cumbria’s environment & wildlife then please do pass on our Wilder Side of Business leaflet (download the PDF) to the relevant person in your workplace.