Welcome to your latest Wild Place News! This month we bring you a bumper edition designed to boost your love of wild places and thank you for supporting our work.
Whether you are intersted in our advocacy work (please join our campaign to Protect the Wild), our UK-wide engagement work, our land restoration work (support our Mountain Woodland Appeal) or much more, we're sure you'll find something of interest to 'coorie in' and read.
Do consider supporting our vital work by becoming a Member. And finally, check out our festive gifts collection. Buy direct from us and all profits go towards our work in wild places.
Congratulations to our Glenlude team and our partners Phoenix Futures whose Recovery Through Nature in the Phoenix Forest programme last night won a prestigious Nature of Scotland Award.
Thanks to funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Nature Towns and Cities fund, the Trust can start piloting engagement and training activities in Charterhouse Heritage Park, including heritage talks, wildlife walks and river surveys.
The Trust was invited to share our views on how best to achieve a new vision for Scotland’s land at the recent REVIVE conference in Perth. Please join our nationwide campaign to Protect the Wild.
"I didn't realise how much I liked being outside until we started this. It makes me feel less stressed." Find out how our relaunched John Muir Award is encouraging people across the UK to connect with wild places.
Read about downy willow and then find out how East Schiehallion is playing a leading role in mountain woodland restoration, and how you can boost our efforts by supporting our Mountain Woodland Appeal.
In 2025, our educational hiking programme Connect Outdoors worked with five new partners, helping enrich more under-represented communities with outdoor experiences in Scotland. Read more.
Any outdoor gear that you not longer use? Donate it to Tiso's intitative that resells old outdoor gear and equipment that meets product standards - raising money for its charity partners, including the Trust!
Read how David Mitchell's 30-year artistic exploration of fungi - that included discovering a new species.- resulted in a beautiful new book that's packed full of close up studies of fungi.Inspired to submit your own Wild Moment? Find how here
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.
We're delighted to announce our new partnership with Skye Candles. As well as supporting the Trust, Skye Candles has supplied us with three candles including: Winter Warmer; Wildflowers and Juniper Berry. All profit will the support the work we do protecting and restoring wild places. Find Skye Candles as well as the rest of our festive collection for more seasonal gift inspiration here!
