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John Muir Award Impact Report 2025: Celebrating wins for wild places

The John Muir Award Impact Report 2025 (published June 2026) reports the first year after the Award's relaunch in March 2025. 2,919 participants completed the Award, collectively spending 32,399 hours on conservation activities to protect and restore natural processes, including planting 1,736 trees and 219 shrubs and creating 674 homes for wildlife. Award activity took place in all four UK nations and the Channel Islands, with groups from state, special and independent schools, outdoor education centres, youth work, community and conservation groups and families.

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The John Muir Trust is dedicated to protecting, restoring and championing the UK's wild places, now and for the future. The John Muir Award is its engagement initiative, encouraging people of all backgrounds to connect with, enjoy and care for wild places through four challenges: discover, explore, conserve and share. The Trust is a Scottish charitable company (Charity No. SC002061).

Key Metrics

2,919 participants completed the John Muir Award in 2025
32,399 hours of conservation activity
1,736 trees planted by Award participants

Key Outcomes

  • 674 homes for wildlife and 771 wildlife feeders provided by participants
  • 219 shrubs planted as part of conservation activity
  • Groups completed the Award in Scotland (73), England (44), Northern Ireland (5), Wales (2) and the Channel Islands (2)

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UK-Wide

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