Welcome to Wildlife Groundswell

Bringing People Together for Nature & Conservation on The Lizard

please note date change...... project meeting... moved to.... 9th April at 7pm.....

please note date change...... project meeting... moved to.... 9th April at 7pm.....

📢 Date Change: Wildlife Groundswell Project Meeting

Please note that the Wildlife Groundswell Project Meeting has been rescheduled.

🗓 New Date: Wednesday, 9th April
Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Rosuick Farm, TR12 6DZ
(Previously scheduled for Thursday, 3rd April)

We appreciate your understanding and hope to see you there!

We Did It – Thank You!

We are absolutely thrilled to share that we have not only reached but surpassed our fundraising goal! Thanks to your incredible generosity, we have raised over £5,000 to support conservation efforts on the Lizard Peninsula.

This campaign has been a huge success because of you—whether you donated, shared our posts, or helped spread the word. Your support has made a real impact, and we can’t wait to put this funding into action.

Thank you for standing with us to protect and restore nature on the Lizard Peninsula. We’ll keep you updated on the progress of these exciting projects—watch this space!

Our Crowdfunder Ends April 5th – Donations Still Welcome!

Please Donate here

Your contributions continue to make a difference. Here’s how the funding will be used:

Protecting Our Rivers

  • 🌊 Riverfly Partnership Kits (£670) – Specialist equipment for volunteers to monitor aquatic invertebrates, key indicators of river health.

  • 📚 Volunteer Training Packs (£250) – Educational materials supporting community-led monitoring.

  • 🎓 Instructor Training (£100) – Training local leaders to expand conservation efforts.

Saving Our Swifts

  • 🏰 Swift Nest Boxes (£900) – Installing 6–10 expertly designed nest boxes in three church belfries.

  • 🔊 Swift Call Systems – Audio devices to attract swifts to new nesting sites.

  • 📢 Community Education – Raising awareness and engaging people in swift conservation.

Supporting Our Bats

  • 🦇 Echometer ‘Touch 2’ Bat Detectors (£750) – Identifying bat species through echolocation.

  • 🌙 Roost Identification & Monitoring Evenings – Teaching communities how to protect bat roosts.

  • 🤝 Partnerships with Conservation Groups – Working with Cornwall Bat Group and others to support national conservation initiatives.

Community Engagement & Learning

  • 🎤 Guest Speaker Events (£500) – Hosting experts to discuss biodiversity and conservation.

  • 🏡 Village Hall Hire (£120) – Providing accessible spaces for presentations and training.

  • 📽 Projector for Community Presentations (£700) – Enhancing learning experiences with high-quality visuals.

Keeping Our Work Going

  • 🌐 Website Hosting & Newsletter Platform (£403) – Keeping our community informed and engaged.

  • 🛡 Public Liability Insurance (£137) – Ensuring safe and secure events.

  • 📝 Annual Reporting & Administration (£50) – Maintaining our organization’s legal standing.

EAT The Lizard – community survey

The Lizard has an abundance of food grown, reared, produced or caught here. But most of it is transported off the peninsula to be sold elsewhere. At the same time, most people drive to the supermarkets in Helston to shop – buying food produced and shipped in from all over the UK and the world.

Very few farmers on The Lizard grow food that is sold locally. Most of it is sold to either supermarkets or companies who supply supermarkets. This puts pressure on the farmers, as they're forced into selling for lower prices that can make it hard to cover their costs of production, as well as increasing food miles and the associated fuel costs, packaging, carbon footprint and inefficiency.

Through Wildlife Groundswell, a few local people are keen to see if we can do anything about this – and if there's local appetite for easier ways to buy directly from farmers, growers, fishers and other local food producers, while maintaining or increasing existing trade in The Lizard's local shops.

We'd like to arrange a community gathering to discuss how this might happen, in a way that works for our communities and food producers.

We'd be grateful if you can answer this short survey to help us gauge the level of interest in taking this forward.

It will take you less than 5 minutes 😁Please follow this link to complete the survey https://forms.gle/BwM7uyZv5UPh47HSA

Upcoming Events

Our Recent Conference

Talks and Workshop Reviews

Local Projects in the Community

Would you like to join one of our groups?

SWIFTS, SWALLOWS AND MARTINS GROUP

STREAM TESTING

ANY SIZE LANDOWNERS GROUP

BAT GROUP

CONNECT TO NATURE GROUP

Get Involved

Wildlife Groundswell is powered by passionate volunteers. Whether you're interested in surveying wildlife, building habitats, or simply learning more about nature, there’s a place for you.

📅 Join an event – Check out our upcoming activities and workshops.
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Subscribe to our newsletter – Stay updated on our latest projects and opportunities.
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Become a volunteer – Help us make a real difference in conservation efforts.

Together, we are the Groundswell for Wildlife!

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Common Blue Butterfly on Birdsfoot Trefoil. Photo by Maggie Freegard

 Boosting wildlife

Joined up action to stimulate wildlife diversity and abundance, making it as easy as possible for anyone to contribute

Addressing the causes and effects of climate change

Enabling nature to be resilient and play an important role in regulating climate.

Linking nature and community

Starting conversations and hosting events to build community awareness and involvement

Wildlife Groundswell is proud to be a nonprofit partner of 1% for the Planet, a global network of businesses, non-profits, and individuals working together to improve the health of our planet.

1% for the Planet connects donors – businesses that wish to help make positive environmental change – and doers – the non-profit organisations making change happen, like Wildlife Groundswell. As members of 1% for the Planet, businesses donate 1% of their annual sales to the non-profits that they choose to support.

Through these partnerships, 1% for the Planet has donated $150 million to environmental non-profits since its founding in 2002. Wildlife Groundswell currently has five business partners through 1% for the Planet: Patagonia, Pingala, Skinny Pancake, Bluestone Life, and The Green Life.