Land, outdoors and nature appeal

Will you help to support the vital habitats in our care, to ensure wildlife can thrive long into the future?

A view of Corfe Common — Corfe Common is the largest area of common land in Dorset

Hydro intake weir at Hafod y Llan farm, Snowdonia

Our plan to nurse the environment back to health

We’ve launched an ambitious plan to nurse the natural environment back to health and reverse the alarming decline in wildlife. Our strategy for the next decade will also see us invest in looking after the nation’s heritage.

Discover how we will restore our natural environment

How the appeal adds up

It costs an average of £180 per metre to create a new upland footpath in Snowdonia
126 of our coastal sites are at risk from tidal flooding
Some 45 volunteer toad patrollers help save toads on the North Yorkshire Moors

Where we need your help

Group of walkers with Llyn Ogwen and Tryfan in the background. Carneddau and Glyderau, Gwynedd.

Snowdonia

Escape to an awe-inspiring landscape steeped in myth and legend.

Strangford Lough

Strangford Lough is a unique and wonderful place of immense international importance for nature conservation. It is the largest sea lough in the British Isles and one of only three designated Marine Nature Reserves in the United Kingdom.

Purbeck

From historic Corfe Castle to the beaches of Studland Bay and the towering limestone cliffs of Spyway, the Isle of Purbeck is a world in miniature.

Studland Bay Dorset

Woodlands of Purbeck

Despite being better known for its heaths and coastline, Purbeck is dotted with ancient woodlands which support some of our rarest wildlife.

Find out more

Donate to Land, outdoors and nature appeal

Please select an amount

£10 would pay to remove and control 2.5 square metres of spartina grass, a fast-growing, non-native cord grass that smothers mudflats, and with it, the vital food source for pale-bellied brent geese, in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland

£25 would help towards the costs of restoring the grassland along the chalk ridge that straddles Purbeck from east to west

£50 would help us restore 50 square metres of eroded blanket bog in the Yorkshire Dales

Or enter your own amount

Why give to the National Trust?

As a charity, we rely on the generosity of supporters to look after the outdoor spaces in our care. Not only do our supporters help to conserve beautiful landscapes and protect precious plants and wildlife. But they also ensure that future generations have places they can find freedom from everyday life, reconnect with the natural world and make memories to treasure. Your donation will go towards this project and other vital conservation work in the outdoors at this special place. With your support, we can continue to protect the irreplaceable. For ever, for everyone.

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