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title: Wild Places News - November 2025
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Huge thanks for all your support during 2025 - here are some of the highlights!

| View in browser   Wild Places News December 2025   Dear Supporter   Season's greetings! As 2025 draws to a close, we want to say a heartfelt thank you for standing with us this year. Your support has helped protect wild places, restore damaged landscapes and ensure that nature remains accessible for generations to come.   Before we look ahead, we’d love to invite you to pause and reflect on what we’ve achieved together. From bold campaigning and on-the-ground conservation to awards, partnerships and inspiring community action, it’s been a year shaped by people who care deeply about wild places.   We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Thank you for being part of this journey. Here’s to achieving even more together in 2026. Wild Places News Rewind 2025 As 2025 draws to a close we reflect on a year of action, advocacy, awards and more. Across the UK, our teams, volunteers and partners have worked tirelessly to protect wild places, restore landscapes and inspire communities. Enjoy some highlights. Help shape the future of the Trust If you have experience of wild places and ecology; strategic communications and networking; environmental governance or strategic income generation please consider applying to join our Board as a co-opted Trustee before 12 January 2026. Remembering Stuart Brooks Following the passing of the Trust’s former CEO and nature conservationist Stuart Brooks, we are rerunning an interview first published in our Members’ Journal in 2017. We are sad that another of life’s gentlemen has been taken too soon.  Apply for an adventure grant In 2026, we are hoping to fund more adventurers than ever. Applications for Des Rubens Bill Wallace Grants of up to £2,000 close soon. Find out more and download the application forms before 15 January 2026.    North East Scotland Members in 2026  Read how a John Muir Trust Local Members' Group has been making a difference to North East Scotland's wild places for the past 15 years – and consider getting involved in a conservation day. Complete our Journal readers' survey Dip into the latest edition of our Members' Journal and then help us improve by completing our Readers' survey. We appreciate your support and truly value your thoughts. Read all our latest news Direct Debit payment update We are changing our Direct Debit provider to GoCardless. If you currently donate via Direct Debit, you’ll receive a notification of this before 31 January 2026. No action is required. Last minute gift ideas for nature lovers Need some inspiration for festive gift ideas? Consider buying a gift that makes a difference for wild places, wildlife and our climate. Plant a Tree, Adopt an Acre or Help a Habitat on behalf of someone special. Each symbolic Wild Gift includes a personalised certificate with your own message. Email gifts are sent immediately on purchase. Photography: Chris Rutter, Guy Richardson/scotlandbigpicture.com, Megan Bellamy, John Muir Trust Copyright © 2025 John Muir Trust. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in or signed up via johnmuirtrust.org. Our mailing address is: John Muir Trust, Tower House, Station Road, Pitlochry, Perthshire, PH16 5AN, Scotland, 01796 470080 Unsubscribe \| Manage preferences |
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