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3 for free: an easy win for you and nature!

Choose a membership:

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From £3.75 a month

Individual membership offer

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From £4.75 a month

Joint membership offer

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From £5.50 a month

Family membership offer

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New year's resolution? Support nature!

Join Cumbria Wildlife Trust before 30 January 2025 and we'll give you three months' membership absolutely FREE. This means you can support nature while paying a little less across the year (we know finances can be tight around January) and you get to take membership for a test drive – check out our member benefits below.

When the three months is up, we hope you'll continue to support nature in Cumbria with your small membership fee which makes a huge difference and helps to protect species, restore habitats, raise awareness and campaign for a better future.  

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Your membership benefits


Enjoy the benefits of membership at no cost for three months – such as:

  • our nature reserves guide, with detailed information about Cumbria Wildlife Trust nature reserves across the county.
  • our Cumbrian Wildlife magazine, sent out three times a year (click here to view a sample copy) and our What's On guide, full of events for you to get involved with.
  • email updates about wildlife around the county & news from behind the scenes, including long-read articles that gives you greater insight into an area of our work.
  • a membership card and access to Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves around the UK.
  • and more!
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Family birdwatching at South Walney Nature Reserve

Family membership

Want to get the whole gang involved? Join as a family and you'll also get our ‘Wildlife Watch’ membership for up to four children at the same address, as well as The Wildlife Watcher's Handbook, our Wildlife Watch magazine (four issues per year), posters and stickers. 

Our family membership is great for getting kids invested in nature. You can also join us for our regular family-focused events and sign your kids up for you local Wildlife Watch group – there are monthly meet-ups around Cumbria. 

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What your membership means

Without our members, we simply couldn’t cover our wildlife conservation costs. Their regular support helps to buy and care for our nature reserves, tackle some of the biggest threats to Cumbria’s wildlife and advocate for nature on a national scale. 

15,000 members are helping to protect Cumbria’s wildlife & wild places. YOU can make a difference too, by joining today from just £3.75 per month. 

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Join for £10.25 a month - looks after an acre of nature on our nature reserves

Our important and constant work in managing nature reserves wouldn't be possible without the generous support of our members, both through volunteering and financial contributions.

You can join from just £3.75 a month, though many of our members choose to give more. Make a difference for Cumbria's wildlife.  

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Support your local green spaces and help them to thrive. We have 43 nature reserves for you to visit across Cumbria, including windswept dunescapes, ancient woodlands, wild peatbogs and flower-rich meadows.

Join today to help us keep these places special, for wildlife and people.

Membership enquiries

If you'd like to talk to us about becoming a member, please email membership@cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk or call 01539 816328 

Line open 9am-5pm, Monday to Thursday.