Gift membership

What they'll receive in their gift membership

A gift membership is the perfect present for any nature lover! They'll get:

• A comprehensive nature reserve guide
• Cumbrian Wildlife magazine three times a year
• Access to member only events
• Email updates about wildlife around the county & news from behind the scenes at the Trust
• Membership card
• Access to Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves around the UK
• 100's of events & conservation days to take part in every year
• Wildlife themed car sticker
• Opportunity to get involved in a local group
• Family membership also includes ‘Wildlife Watch’ membership for up to 4 children at the same address; Wildlife Watch magazine four times a year, posters, stickers and wildlife handbook. It’s great for getting kids interested in nature.

How a gift membership helps nature

A Cumbria Wildlife Trust gift membership makes a real contribution to saving nature and special wildlife places in your local patch.

The needs for funds is ever present - we simply would not be able to continue our vital work without membership income.

• A gift membership helps to buy and care for nature reserves in Cumbria.
• It helps the Trust to inspire the next generation of wildlife conservationists.
• It helps the Trust tackle some of the biggest threats to Cumbria's wildlife.
• Being part of The Wildlife Trust movement gives Cumbria Wildlife Trust the driving force to stand up for wildlife and nature conservation on a national scale too.

Every single one of our members contributes to helping nature in Cumbria.

Here are just a few examples of the work that our members helped make possible over 2017-2018:
•    3,623 hectares of wildlife habitats on our nature reserves were cared for.
•    2,350 wildflower plug plants were planted.
•    8,000 trees weeded by volunteers
•    The Trust continued to tackle land erosion in uplands by restoring peatland; good habitats for wildlife, and helped communities vulnerable to flooding.
•    Our Living Seas team worked with Natural England to establish a new fisheries project to trial the use of creels (a type of pot), to catch Dublin Bay prawns, as an alternative to the environmentally damaging trawling practice.