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 welcome pack bursting with information about their local wildlife and how they can get involved (sent out within approximately two weeks to either yourself or the recipient.)
• An array of new opportunities to meet like minded people
• Membership card giving them access to not only their local reserves in Cumbria but hundreds of other Wildlife Trust nature reserves in the UK.
• Three issues each year of Cumbrian Wildlife magazine.
• Our What's On guide three times a year fun and exciting wildlife-themed events
• A Family gift membership gives their child/children access to Wildlife Watch, our junior branch (includes four Wildlife Watch magazines a year).

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.