Gift membership

What your gift recipient will get with their gift membership

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

• A free welcome pack of information about their local wildlife and how they can get involved (sent out within approximately two to three weeks to either yourself or the recipient.)
• A free nature reserve guide giving you detailed information about all of Cumbria Wildlife Trust's nature reserves.
• Cumbrian Wildlife magazine three times a year & the accompanying What's On guide, which lists all our events for you to get involved with.
• Invitations for special member-only events, many of which are held on our nature reserves
• 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
• Let us know your email address & you'll receive our monthly e-newsletter and exclusive member-only news about wildlife in Cumbria.
• Family membership also includes ‘Wildlife Watch’ membership for up to 4 children at the same address; The Wildlife Watcher's handbook, Wildlife Watch magazine four times a year and posters & stickers. It’s great for getting kids interested in nature. As a Watch member, a child can come along to our family events and get involved in some really great practical and fun activities like pond-dipping, rock-pooling and mini-beast hunts.

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 2019-2020:

• 3,844 km2 of wildlife habitats were cared for
• 199,000m2 of meadows restored across 15 meadows in 13 locations
• 310,000m2 of pollinator habitat restored or created on 45 roadside verge locations
• 200 trees planted at Eycott Hill Nature Reserve
• Major hedge laying for all the boundary hedges started at Waitby Greenriggs Nature Reserve
• 20 children took part in our Wildlife Watch groups & 1,000 children engaged with nature through our visits to schools
• 69 beach cleans collected bags 1,138 bags of rubbish across Cumbria
• 7 grey seal pups were born at South Walney Nature Reserve
• 2 new Marine Conservation Zones were designated off the Cumbria coast