Project News and Blogs

Working together to help nature thrive
If you need financial support to undertake nature-positive works on your land, Wilder Horsham District can help, with grants of up to £5,000 available to District residents. Read on to find out about how one successful applicant found the process.
Highlights of 2024 for the Wilder Horsham District project
Senior Land Advisor, Steve Tillman, Land Advisor, and Louisa Jones, Project Support Officer, chat about highlights of the Wilder Horsham District project over the past year.
Senior Land Advisor, Steve Tillman, Land Advisor, and Louisa Jones, Project Support Officer, chat about highlights of the Wilder Horsham District project over the past year.

Wilder Horsham District 2023 Review
Find out the highlights from the Wilder Horsham District project’s really busy and productive year
Find out the highlights from the Wilder Horsham District project’s really busy and productive year

Pleaching, bill hooks and plodgers. Hedge laying with Wilder Horsham District
Emma Chaplin joins the Wilder Horsham District staff and volunteer team, as they spend a day hedge laying
Emma Chaplin joins the Wilder Horsham District staff and volunteer team, as they spend a day hedge laying

An Exciting Update from Benlands Nature Reserve...
We caught up with Simon Carter at Benlands Nature Reserve to see how their Nature Recovery Award project to improve a woodland for wildlife is going…
We caught up with Simon Carter at Benlands Nature Reserve to see how their Nature Recovery Award project to improve a woodland for wildlife is going…

Meet the staff: Richard Black
We learn more about Richard Black, Senior Land Advisor for the Wilder Horsham District project
We learn more about Richard Black, Senior Land Advisor for the Wilder Horsham District project

Rare Trees Find a Home at Hop Oast
Until recently, there were only 38 known examples of the Black Poplar tree left in the whole of Sussex. Horsham Football Club has now joined the fight to restore this species to its former glory.
Until recently, there were only 38 known examples of the Black Poplar tree left in the whole of Sussex. Horsham Football Club has now joined the fight to restore this species to its former glory.

Himalayan Balsam removal with Wilder Horsham District
Find out about the pretty pink pest, Himalayan Balsam, and Wilder Horsham District’s attempts to get rid of it
Find out about the pretty pink pest, Himalayan Balsam, and Wilder Horsham District’s attempts to get rid of it

'Bomb Pond' - The Incredible (and unexpected!) Story of Restoring a South Downs Pond
Ever discovered an unexploded WW2 bomb? Nor had Dr. Greg Valerio of Great Barn Farm, Wiston, until he started restoring and digging a pond on his land with funding from our Nature Recovery Award!
Ever discovered an unexploded WW2 bomb? Nor had Dr. Greg Valerio of Great Barn Farm, Wiston, until he started restoring and digging a pond on his land with funding from our Nature Recovery Award!

Friends of Glebe Field - The Community Creating a Wildlife Haven
A year on, we revisit our first ever Nature Recovery Award funding recipients The Friends of Glebe Field to see how they’re getting on…
A year on, we revisit our first ever Nature Recovery Award funding recipients The Friends of Glebe Field to see how they’re getting on…

Wilder Horsham District update
Find out what the Wilder Horsham District project has been up to in 2022
Find out what the Wilder Horsham District project has been up to in 2022
