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Take a look, through some of the common species of wildlife that live in the South Yorkshire area around Sheffield and Rotherham.
A recently extended patch of heathland and woodland, neighbouring Wyming Brook.
Information and resources about actions you can take for nature's recovery in Sheffield and Rotherham.
Our Acorn Fund is a pot of money allocated specifically to help release money from the Landfill Communities Fund. Your donation can be the key to unlocking funding worth thousands of pounds to make a huge difference for local wildlife.
It might sound too good to be true, but your donation can be the key to unlocking funding worth thousands of pounds to make a huge difference to local wildlife.
For example, if you give £100, it could release funds of up to £1,000 – it’s as simple as that!
Our Acorn Fund is a pot of money allocated specifically to help release funds from the Landfill Communities Fund. If we are able to raise £10,000 each year for this fund, it will enable us to unlock potential funding of up to £100,000 annually to benefit our nature reserves across Sheffield and Rotherham.
Landfill site operators pay tax when they bury waste. Some of this money goes into the Landfill Communities Fund, which we can then apply for to support vital nature conservation work in Sheffield and Rotherham.
Competition for these grants is high, and even when we secure an offer there can be one last hurdle to jump. These grants frequently require additional funds (otherwise known as a Third Party Contribution) to unlock them – usually an extra 10% from supporters – and this is often required within a tight deadline.
We aren’t allowed to use the Trust’s existing funds for this contribution and without it, the offer is taken off the table.
Please consider giving a gift to our Acorn Fund to unlock future funding.
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‘Wings & Roots at Greno Woods’ will focuses on five of the reserve’s rarest bird species, all of which are of conservation concern in the UK, by supporting the different habitats that these birds require.
Improving and increasing the amount of heathland will benefit nightjar. Improving the current oak woodland by controlling invasive species will benefit wood warbler while creating more standing deadwood, from dying ash trees, will benefit woodpeckers. Planting 5 hectares of new broadleaf woodland and scrub will benefit tree pipit. The creation of new scrapes will provide feeding habitat for woodcock, these scrapes will be filled with water by diverting rain that falls on the track network; resulting in the added benefit of reducing flood risk and erosion.
We need to secure £3862 by November 2025 to make this project happen.
The Rivelin Valley is a beautiful and popular area of Sheffield. With funding, we will increase the resilience of the area by planting a greater mix of tree species that will be resilient to climate change. In addition, we will create more wet features such as leaky dams to act as natural flood management.
We also plan to improve access so that even more people can enjoy the benefits of nature and green spaces; improving surfaces and steps as well as new maps and signage to inform and educate visitors.
Funding was secured from Veolia Environmental Trust in 2025 with work to be completed by summer 2026.
The word Ings literally means water meadow or marsh (from the Old Norse) and provides a clue to its past as a floodplain of the River Don. However, these days the Ings are disconnected from the river due to the presence of a vital floodbank that helps protect communities from flooding.
If funding is successful we will make part of the site wetter and make space for nature by working with an existing watercourse and series of ditches, scrapes and ponds.
Wading birds such as snipe and lapwing will benefit from the wet, rushy habitat and scrapes, as well as damsel and dragonflies. The long term aim is for the return of water vole, which haven’t been seen on site since 2007.
Funding was secured from FCC Communities Foundation in 2025 with work to be completed by spring 2026.