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18 projects · 18 organizations

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Wildlife

A Scotland-based charity trains nearly a thousand citizen scientists a year to track bumblebees and restore the flower-rich habitat they need to survive.

1.3MbumblebeesBumblebees recorded via BeeWalk since 2008
1,000volunteersVolunteer BeeWalkers surveying in 2025
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Communities

Seven community gardens across Essex use hands-in-the-soil horticulture as frontline mental health support for thousands of people a year.

7,395peoplePeople supported (2024)
7gardensTherapeutic community gardens
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A London charity collects unwanted clothes from over 700 clothing banks and free home pickups, reselling and recycling them to keep fashion out of landfill.

233MgarmentsGarments put back into use since 1999
628ktonnesCO2 emissions saved
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This Highlands charity has grown more than two million native trees to bring Scotland's lost Caledonian pinewood back to life.

2MtreesNative trees planted since founding
5,000volunteersVolunteers involved since founding
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Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust (Eigg Electric)

Scotland's First Fully Community-Owned Renewable Energy Grid

Clean Energy

Since 2008, the roughly 100 residents of Scotland's Isle of Eigg have collectively owned and run the world's first off-grid community electricity network powered by hydro, wind, and solar.

93%Annual electricity from renewable sources
11kmUnderground grid cable
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A fast-growing charity is suing water companies and industrial chicken farms to rescue England's sewage- and slurry-choked rivers.

4,500claimantsPeople who joined the River Wye/Lugg/Usk pollution legal claim
14.3%England's surface waters rated 'good' ecological status
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Hedgehog Street (People's Trust for Endangered Species & British Hedgehog Preservation Society)

Hedgehog Street: Cutting Wildlife Corridors Through UK Gardens

Wildlife

Neighbours across Britain cut fist-sized holes through garden fences to stitch fragmented city gardens back into a connected habitat for declining hedgehogs.

133.4kholesHedgehog highways registered nationwide
135.9kvolunteersHedgehog Champions registered
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Land & Rights

Four neighbouring landowners in the Scottish Highlands joined a 200-year plan to restore native forest, peatland and rivers across 60,000 hectares.

60khectaresArea of the restoration landscape
10ktrees/yearNative trees grown annually in its tree nursery
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Forests

Trees for Cities plants and cares for urban trees, edible schoolyards and green infrastructure across UK cities to close the tree-equity gap.

2MtreesUrban trees planted since 1993
216playgroundsEdible Playgrounds built in schools
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Waste & Recycling

Founded after a paddleboarder documented plastic clogging England's waterways end to end, Planet Patrol turns every paddle, swim or dog walk into citizen-science data that has logged half a million pieces of litter worldwide.

50kpeopleVolunteers who have logged litter data
500kitemsItems of litter logged in the app
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Roughly a tenth of ocean life has ever been described, and the naming has historically taken over a decade per species — so this Oxford outfit built a production line for discovery.

1,100speciesNew marine species confirmed in twelve months
49expeditionsExpeditions run since 2014
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